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It takes time, patience and support. Most important, it works. It's also a right under the Torture Convention's Article 14, stating:
"1. Each State Party shall ensure in its legal system that the victim of an act of torture obtains redress and has an enforceable right to fair and adequate compensation including the means for as full rehabilitation as possible. In the event of the death of the victim as a result of an act of torture, his dependents shall be entitled to compensation."2. Nothing in this article shall affect any right of the victim or other person to compensation which may exist under national law."
Annually, over 100,000 victims receive treatment. Global centers provide it. Many other survivors needing care never get it. They and family members both suffer.
IRCT reminds governments of their responsibility to ensure rehabilitation "from this most horrendous form of abuse."
Rehab is a right, and it works, IRCT stressed.
Hypocritically, on June 26, a White House Office of the Press Secretary said:
America "joins the international community in pledging to work toward the elimination of torture and all other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.""As the President has made clear since the first days of the Administration, the United States rejects torture as unlawful, counter to our values, and inconsistent with the universal rights and freedoms that should be enjoyed by all men, women, and children wherever they live. Torture is abhorrent: we do not practice it, and we will not countenance it or transfer individuals to any country where they will be subjected to it."
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