CVT In the News
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Protect survivors of torture in immigration reform
CVT Executive Director Curt Goering again calls for comprehensive immigration reform to protect torture survivors.
Source: MinnPost.com
Date: 05/14/2013 -
Human rights groups call for end to force-feeding of Guantánamo hunger-striking detainees
CVT is among several human rights organizations who signed a letter to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel urging him to end the force-feeding of competent hunger-striking prisoners in Guantánamo Bay.
Source: The Miami Herald
Date: 05/14/2013 -
Ruben Rosario: Some understanding for the Cleveland kidnapping victims
CVT International Services Clinical Advisor Erin Morgan talks about the Cleveland kidnapping victims and their recovery from this ordeal.
Source: Pioneer Press
Date: 05/10/2013 -
Cleveland captives likened to prisoners of war. How can they recover?
CVT International Services Clinical Advisor Erin Morgan is quoted in an article about the Cleveland kidnapping victims and how they recover.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 05/10/2013 -
NO MATTER WHAT IT'S CALLED, it's torture
CVT Executive Director Curt Goering writes a letter to the editor of The Virginian-Pilot applauding the newspaper for its editorial equating so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” with torture.
Source: The Virginian-Pilot
Date: 04/22/2013 -
The Convention Against Torture 25 Years Later
CVT Executive Director Curt Goering’s reflections on the 25th anniversary of the United States signing the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Source: The Huffington Post
Date: 04/22/2013 -
Reliving the Torture
Citing the impact the current immigration detention experience may have on torture survivors, CVT Executive Director Curt Goering writes a letter to the editor of The New York Times urging Congress and President Obama to not forget deserving torture survivors in comprehensive immigration reform legislation.
Source: The New York Times
Date: 04/12/2013 -
Coalition forms against CIA officer entangled in torture tape scandal
CVT and other human rights organizations raise concerns about the possible promotion of CIA employee reportedly involved in the agency's torture program.
Source: Foreign Policy Passport blog
Date: 04/11/2013 -
Ellison Visits Somalia, Kenya in Whirlwind Tour
During his recent trip to Kenya, U.S. Congressman Keith Ellison visited CVT's healing project in Nairobi.
Source: St. Louis Park Patch
Date: 02/25/2013 -
Rep. Keith Ellison Visits Minnesota-Based Center for Victims of Torture in Nairobi
U.S. Congressman Keith Ellison recently visited CVT’s Nairobi healing site. He met with CVT Nairobi to learn firsthand how CVT provides mental health and physical therapy care to urban refugees who have fled war, conflicts and persecution and are now rebuilding their lives in Nairobi.
Source: Office of U.S. Congressman Keith Ellison
Date: 02/22/2013
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