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26 Jun 2001Medical evidence of widespread torture in Pakistan is produced today by the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, which has called on the Home Office to stop "systematically" failing Pakistanis seeking political asylum.
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02 Apr 2001The UK is a signatory to the UN Convention Against Torture and other Cruel or Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 1984.
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25 Jan 2001A British charity that helps torture victims says an unprecedented number of people sought its help last year, reflecting the record number of asylum seekers that arrived in Britain, a link that undermines government claims that most asylum applicants are really economic migrants.
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19 Jan 2001A charity that helps torture victims is to receive nearly GBP400,000 from the Millennium Commission to enable people who have suffered serious human rights abuses develop skills that will benefit the community.
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15 Jan 2001A charity that helps torture victims is urging balletomanes to speak in code when purchasing tickets for Grigorovich's Nutcracker, a legendary production of the Tchaikovsky classic, at the London Apollo next month.
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20 Oct 2000Some of Britain's best selling authors will make a unique donation to charity later this year by auctioning off the name of a character in their next book to bidders keen to see themselves immortalised in print.
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11 Sep 2000An exhibition of work by "unofficial war artist" Peter Kennard on behalf of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture opens at the Royal College of Art in London next month.
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23 Aug 2000Detailed medical examinations of Sikh asylum seekers arriving in Britain by doctors from the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture refute claims made yesterday [Aug.02] by the Indian High Commissioner Mr Nareshwar Dayal that torture does not occur on the sub-continent.
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08 Aug 2000The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture is delighted at the decision of Chile's Supreme Court to strip General Augusto Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution.
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13 Jul 2000A report which challenges the findings of the neuropsychological exam carried out on former Chilean Head of State Augusto Pinochet for the Home Office, have been entered into court proceedings in Chile.
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12 Jul 2000Discrimination that may range from subtle hostility through to outright rejection and xenophobia is helping to marginalise refugee health care, warns one of Britain's leading family therapists.
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06 Jul 2000Expert forensic medical evidence gathered by Britain's only organisation dedicated to helping victims of torture and organised violence verifies accounts of persecution of eastern European Roma, it was revealed today [subs: 07.06.00].
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26 Jun 2000The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture has challenged the Home Office to spell out the basis for a claim in the latest asylum statistics issued today [subs: 06.26.00] that the proportion of asylum appeals dismissed by adjudicators from the Independent Appellate Authority is growing steadily.
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08 Jun 2000Andrew Motion, the Poet Laureate, has made a highly valued donation to a charity that helps victims of torture - a poem, with all rights going to support the charity's work.
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31 May 2000The day before the release of an Audit Commission report, widely expected to expose shortcomings in the current asylum dispersal system, a GBP1m project was launched in London to raise awareness of the health and welfare needs of refugees and asylum-seekers.
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11 May 2000The Home Secretary has given an assurance that the Government will not deduct from asylum seekers' allowance the value of toys that charities provide for their children. The problem remains that the Government defines toys as not an "essential living need".
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20 Apr 2000The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, a registered charity that runs the only treatment centre in the United Kingdom dedicated to helping victims of torture, has launched a GBP4.7m "Under One Roof" appeal for new premises.
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31 Mar 2000MPs have been asked in an Early Day Motion to donate toys to refugee children in a grassroots campaign against new government legislation which will deprive the children of asylum seekers of play things.
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09 Feb 1999The Asylum Bill presented today [subs: 02.09.99] in Parliament is an exercise in social exclusion that is likely to cause untold misery while doing little to fulfill Government promises of a fairer decision making process, says the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture.
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17 Dec 1998The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, third-party intervenors in the Pinochet case, described today's [subs: 12.17.98] judgement by the Law Lords which gives the former dictator a fresh hearing as "ironic but not unjust."