Latest news
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22 Jun 2006A new handbook to which MF experts have contributed encouraging the investigation and documentation of state-sanctioned torture is to be distributed to health professionals world-wide.
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25 May 2006New safeguards to identify asylum seekers in detention who have been tortured are urgently needed if the Government is to avoid further costly compensation orders from the courts, the MF warns.
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29 Mar 2006The MF is pressing for disciplinary action to be taken against US military doctors who have breached medical ethics by force feeding hunger strikers.
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28 Mar 2006A Glasgow grandmother has raised £1,000 for the MF from selling bags of tablet - a Scottish sweet - that she makes to a recipe more than 100 years old.
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20 Jan 2006TV documentary about teenage MF client intended to alert teachers to asylum difficulties.
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18 Jan 2006Children's Commissioner for England, Prof Al Aynsley-Green visited the Medical Foundation and spoke of his concern for young asylum seekers
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09 Nov 2005The Medical Foundation, with a number of other human rights groups,have published a statement criticising some counter-terrorism measures.
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13 Oct 2005The Medical Foundation has opened a new office in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne to provide training to health professionals and others working with asylum seekers and refugees in the North East in how best to improve the mental wellbeing of survivors of torture.
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28 Sep 2005Torture survivors from the Medical Foundation's Write to Life project have produced a book of short stories about their experiences, called "From there to here"....Sheila Hayman , Co-ordinator of the project, explains:
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24 Jun 2005he Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture has collaborated with two other British human rights groups to stage a photographic exhibition to mark the International Day in Support of Survivors of Torture (26 June).
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11 Oct 2004MF doctors doctors find a dozen cases of excessive or gratuitous force used against failed asylum seekers.
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15 Apr 2004The MF today presents the first substantial body of reliable evidence on the use of rape in the armed conflict in Chechnya.
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19 Jan 2004When people flee their homes and homelands because of persecution they are often lucky to escape with their lives.
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19 Jan 2004In her new exhibition, photographer Rhonda Klevansky presents images of 50 asylum-seekers.
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19 May 2003The indefinite detention of three young adolescents at Guantanamo Bay points to another blurring of legal boundaries by the US Government
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10 Oct 2002"It is with pride and a certain humility that I commend this book to its readers, for if anything reflects the human spirit and the capacity to overcome appalling adversity and loss, this chronicle of painstaking and creative endeavour will be an illustration and a guide..."
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26 Jun 2002The British government is accused today of consistently failing to protect asylum seekers from Cameroon, a West African country where torture is widespread and systematic.
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14 Aug 2001Stars of stage and screen are teaming up with an award-winning composer to present a gala concert in London that it is hoped will raise awareness about the experiences that force asylum seekers and refugees into exile.
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11 Jul 2001A charity that provides help to victims of torture and organised violence has accused the Home Office of ignoring a pledge to look sympathetically on asylum seekers with a history of torture.
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01 Jul 2001Helen Bamber, the founder of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, has announced that she will step down in the near future as director of the charity.