RCT welcomes the United Nations backed tribunal in the Courts of Cambodia (“ECCC”) on the delivery of its first verdict on 26 July this year in the case of Kaing Guek Eav, known as “Comrade Duch”

Founder of the Indian RCT partner organisation "Peoples' Vigilance Committee on Human Rights” is honored with the human rights prize of the city of Weimar in 2010.

RCT is profoundly concerned about the killing of forensic expert, Dr. Germán Antonio Ramírez Herrera in Ecuador July 6.

Desmond Fernando, one of the leading human rights lawyers and activists in Sri Lanka, died July 5. For many years he assisted torture victims via the RCT partner organization the Family Rehabilitation Centre (FRC) in Sri Lanka.

RCT´s member of the International Forensic Expert Group, Dr. Jens Modvig gave a speech on medical documentation during the international conference entitled “Monitoring torture, towards an efficient national plan” on the 30th of June 2010 in the West Bank.

The end of a war does not end the tension and division between ethnic groups, nor does it eliminate its psychological and physical effects. This is the conclusion of a population-based RCT study published recently in the journal ´Conflict and Health´.

New scientific article stresses how nations struggling with violence could be encouraged to apply an integrated framework to prevent violence and reinforce human security.

Lecture and open discussion with Eva Abu Halaweh, Director of Mizan Law Group for Human Rights. Monday 28th June 2010, 15:00-17:00

Moreover RCT calls for the Danish government to condemn the actions and apply pressure through the EU to have the blockade lifted.

On the opening day of the 9th conference of the European Network of Rehabilitation Centres for Survivors of Torture, Programme Manager and Legal Adviser, Emma Reilly presented some interesting views of how international law may ensure that survivors get access to the specialist rehabilitation that they need.

European network assembles to discuss what obligations States do have vis a vis the health of torture survivors and to what degree the States have met these obligations.

Scientific seminar June 2, 2010, 14.30-16.00. To be held in RCT’s canteen, ground floor, Borgergade 13, 1401 Copenhagen. Free admission. Please consult this page for any changes or cancellations.

The annual conference of the European Network of Rehabilitation Centres for Survivors of Torture will take place from May 19 to May 21 in Copenhagen. This year’s theme is “Right to health and rehabilitation” and RCT together with OASIS is hosting the conference.

In a letter to the Danish Medical Association RCT proposes that the World Medical Association and its affiliated associations might be the conduit through which doctors’ concerns about “dual loyalty” abuses could be communicated to the UN special rapporteur on torture.

RCT is worried that tightened regulations will alienate torture victims and traumatised refugees.

UN expert singles out Denmark as one of the few countries in the world having managed to eradicate torture.

Bangladesh: RCT has requested the assistance of the Delegation of the European Commission and the Embassy of Denmark to act firmly in relation to another obstruction by the State Bureau for NGO Affairs Bureau to stop the EU funded project Human Rights Defenders Training and Advocacy Programme.

The EU’s foreign ministers and its High Representative for foreign affairs must insist on their right to visit the Gaza Strip, say 17 European human rights and development organisations.

The Global Prisons Research Network was recently inaugurated in Copenhagen on the initiative of Tomas Martin (Danish Institute for Human Rights) and Andrew M. Jefferson (RCT).

A new UN resolution should help doctors to follow their consciences when confronted with torture, say RCT experts in a recent article in the British Medical Journal.

The political rhetoric in the campaign for presidential elections coming on January 26th holds promises for changes.

RCT welcomes first report from a new comprehensive Monitoring and Evaluating (M&E) system for psychosocial services.

Seminar about UN standards for treatment of prisoners puts emphasis on women prisoners.

With a series of personal testimonies, Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights draws attention to the first anniversary of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip named Operation Cast Lead.