New South African report on torture
New monitoring and evaluation report from CSVR.
The South African Centre
for Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) - and RCT
partner organization - has recently published the report 'Profiling torture II: Addressing Torture and its
Consequences in South Africa'.
The report has been published with the support of RCT and is part
of CSVR's comprehensive monitoring and evaluation of the
organizations psychosocial services provided to victims of torture
and political violence. This report looks at the data obtained from
2009 to 2011 and describes the group of torture clients who
received counseling during this period.
CSVR began offering free counseling service to victims of political
violence in 1989. From the late 1990s, the CSVR began counseling
refugees and asylum seekers from various African countries who had
experienced violent conflicts.