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External Resources
The following organizations work in the field of torture/human rights and/or offer services for victims of torture. They are not a part of or connected to The Barbara Chester Award. Some of these organizations are connected to recipients of the Barbara Chester Award.
With 160 member centres in 76 countries, we are the largest global network of medical and legal professionals working with and for survivors of torture to rebuild their lives through rehabilitation, and to fight for their human rights and justice.
The National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs (NCTTP) is a U.S. based network of programs which exists to advance the knowledge, technical capacities and resources devoted to the care of torture survivors living in the United States and acts collectively to prevent torture worldwide.
The World Organisation Against Torture works with 200 member organisations to end torture and ill-treatment, assist victims, and protect human rights defenders at risk wherever they are.
As the lead United Nations entity mandated to promote and protect human rights for all, we:
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Works with and assists Governments in fulfilling their human rights obligations
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Speaks out objectively in the face of human rights violations worldwide
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Provides a forum for identifying, highlighting and developing responses to today's human rights challenges
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Acts as the principal focal point of human rights research, education, public information, and advocacy activities
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Works with a wide range of partners in order to widen the constituency for human rights worldwide.
The Bellevue Program for Survivors of Torture’s mission is to assist individuals and families subjected to torture and other human rights abuses to rebuild healthy, self-sufficient lives, and to contribute to global efforts to end torture.
Human Rights Foundation of Turkey is a human rights organization established in 1990, 10 years after the military coup in 1980.
HRFT focuses on treatment, rehabilitation, documentation and eradication of torture and other ill-treatment. Since its establishment, HRFT provided treatment and rehabilitation services to more than 18.000 torture survivors and their relatives in Turkey. HRFT adopts a holistic treatment approach and abides by the “well-being” definition of the World Health Organization, which includes the physical, psychological and social well-being of an individual. The Foundation has four treatment centers in Istanbul, Izmir, Ankara and Diyarbakir, and two reference centers in Cizre and Van.
​​CVT is a humanitarian organization that currently has offices in Ethiopia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Uganda, United States and additional project sites around the world.
Since the 1980s, CVT has extended rehabilitative care to tens of thousands of torture survivors from around the world, nearly all of whom were refugees or asylum seekers.
​AUWCL established the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law in 1990 as part of its long-standing commitment to international human rights and the rule of law. Today, our faculty and staff include scholars, practitioners, and activists with decades of experience in human rights and international humanitarian law. The Center’s program staff and faculty co-directors engage in cutting-edge research, create scholarship, organize events, develop trainings, and implement a host of projects focused on cultivating the next generation of human rights advocates and improving the rights of vulnerable and marginalized populations around the world.
El Centro de Prevención, Tratamiento y rehabilitación de víctimas de la Tortura y sus Familiares (CPTRT) es una defensa de la institución creada en 1995 para luchar contra la persistencia en Honduras y en otros lugares de tortura y tratos crueles, inhumanos y degradantes de derechos humanos.
El Equipo Argentino de Trabajo e Investigación Psicosocial es una institución de salud mental y derechos humanos.
Somos una asociación civil sin fines de lucro integrada por médicos psiquiatras y psicólogos. Brindamos asistencia psicoterapéutica y psicosocial gratuita a personas que han sido afectadas por violaciones a los derechos humanos.
​The Marjorie Kovler Center is a Chicago-based program of Heartland Alliance International. Since 1987, the Kovler Center has been dedicated to providing survivors of torture with opportunities to heal, access justice, and rebuild their lives with dignity. Today, the Kovler Center is an expert leader in trauma-informed care for survivors of torture and serves as a trusted resource of integrated treatment and services to reach vulnerable populations – asylee, immigrant and refugee adults, children and families, unaccompanied minors, survivors of forced displacement and trafficking, and immigrant and refugee survivors of crime once in the US. The Kovler Center also trains and educates service providers locally and globally and advocates for the end of torture worldwide.
Restart Center envisions a World free of torture, where the individual’s dignity, self-respect and self-worth are cherished and his/her physical and psychological integrity and empowerment are guaranteed.
The center seeks to prevent torture practices, nationally and regionally, through awareness-raising, advocacy, and capacity building and to ensure that the victim of an act of torture or ill-treatment and war-trauma obtains redress particularly through the provision of means for as full rehabilitation as possible.
