Vision and mission
A world without torture and other forms of organised violence
The Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims' work
is basically founded on the respect for human rights and the
dignity and integrity of each individual. Therefore, it is RCT's
proclaimed objective to help alleviate the human suffering
resulting from torture - both for the individual, the family
members and the community. RCT also aims at preventing torture. RCT
seeks to achieve this aim by altering the mechanisms resulting in
torture in each country. By preventing torture, we also ensure
respect for human rights, social justice and a development towards
a society without human suffering.
The objectives are:
- to expose and document torture on a health professional
basis
- to develop clinical diagnoses and treatment methods of torture
survivors on the basis of systematic examination of the torture
survivors and research into torture and organised violence
- to apply the experiences thus achieved in the education and
advocacy in order to contribute to the global effort to abolish
torture.
RCT aims at achieving the three objectives by:
- running a centre that undertakes clinical research and method
development in order to provide knowledge on torture and the form
and extent of the after-effects of torture as well as treats and
rehabilitates persons who have been subjected to torture
- conducting education and advocacy in order to promote knowledge
of the reasons for torture, conventions and laws, treatment methods
and prevention of torture
- carrying out project work in the South in co-operation with
centres and programmes aiming at treating and rehabilitating
torture survivors and preventing torture