THEMATIC REPORT 2017
SEXUAL TORTURE
The work of the IRCT
As a network of some 150 torture rehabilitation centres in more than 70 countries,
the IRCT is the world’s largest membership-based civil society organisation working
in the field of torture rehabilitation and prevention.
The following report was produced under the auspices of the EU-funded Data in the
Fight Against Impunity (DFI) Project implemented by the IRCT. The IRCT, together
with 33 member centres across 28 countries designed what is a unique, clinical
record-keeping database; that strives to strengthen and harmonise the capacity
of rehabilitation centres to collect clinical data and use it to produce human rights
outputs to support anti-impunity work. To that end, the database captures an array
of information such as perpetrator affiliation, locations and methods of torture,
physical and psychological impacts, and the status of legal complaints already filed.
In collecting such data, we can observe themes and patterns that in turn will enable
a more synchronised approach to eradicating torture.
Of the 33 DFI member centres, 17 participated in this report. The names of the torture
survivors have been anonymised as have the names of the clinical and legal experts
in order to protect their identity.
IRCT’s network:
151
73
organizations
countries
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