Latest news
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17 Jul 2007Several young Medical Foundation clients have attended the House of Lords to give a first hand account of the difficulties they encountered as adolescents trying to claim asylum in Britain.
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14 Jun 2007The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture believes an independent, public enquiry into British Army interrogation techniques is essential following a Law Lords ruling that the Human Rights Act binds members of the armed forces serving abroad.
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08 Jun 2007Far-reaching Home Office changes to the way in which unaccompanied child and adolescent asylum seekers are looked after could damage young torture victims, the MF warns.
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25 May 2007MF patron John McCarthy, the writer and broadcaster who was held hostage for more than five years in Lebanon, has criticised the growing prevalence of torture as screen entertainment.
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24 May 2007The MF has called for greater efforts to be made in identifying torture survivors, at an independent hearing that could see major recommendations for a nation-wide reform of the UK's asylum system.
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24 May 2007A Parliamentary challenge to the Ministry of Defence over the use of outlawed interrogation techniques is a welcome attempt to discover the truth about how the armed forces are instructed to treat prisoners, the Medical Foundation says.
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11 May 2007A culinary demonstration by Michelin-starred chef Paul Merrett on behalf of the MF raised more than £15,000. Earlier Paul visited our allotments in west London, exchanging tips on growing home produce with MF clients.
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08 May 2007Two grants totalling more than £500,000 have been awarded by the Big Lottery Fund and the Scottish Executive to support the MF's work in Scotland.
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03 May 2007MF trustee Professor Sir Nigel Rodley is to serve on an International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP) to monitor an inquiry into human rights violations in Sri Lanka.
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13 Apr 2007Sculptor Duncan Hooson has been encouraging young clients at the MF to embody their memories in clay in a project that will give their work a permanent home in London.
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13 Apr 2007In 2006, while the first free elections were held in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for more than 40 years, the number of people fleeing torture rose unabated and the Medical Foundation bore witness to the continuing human fallout of an ongoing conflict.
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30 Mar 2007A Court of Appeal ban on sending asylum seekers from Darfur whose applications have failed back to Sudan is welcome but does not go far enough in securing their safety, the MF has warned.
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01 Mar 2007Proposed Home Office reforms for looking after unaccompanied minors are a cost saving exercise that betray Government undertakings on child welfare, says MF.
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27 Feb 2007The MF says Britain must scrap its memoradum of understanding with Jordan following a UN report that torture there is "widespread and routine."
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20 Feb 2007The MF has been awarded £323,690 to go towards extending its services beyond London in the next two years.
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16 Feb 2007Lessons learnt from refugee camps in conflict zones in Africa are being played out in a drama group set up by the MF's North West centre in Manchester to help even particularly vulnerable clients transcend a painful past.
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05 Feb 2007The remarkable talents of an Iraqi born artist, who for years had her work suppressed by censors, are being unveiled to the world for the first time in a new book.
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01 Feb 2007The accounts of more than 250 survivors of torture and organised violence referred to the MF in recent years provide further insight into the scale of human rights abuses that have taken place in Sudan.
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19 Jan 2007Following on from their recent success at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, clients from the MF's Write to Life project have been invited to contribute to yet more notable literary events.
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12 Jan 2007The MF criticises a proposal that child asylum-seekers whose age is disputed should have their teeth and wrist bones X-rayed to assess how old they are.