Michigan State University http://www.victims.jrn.msu.edu/INTERVIEWING_VICTIMS_OF_TORTURE_.pdf Regional seminar presentation on SACH, Pakistan (Power point presentation, 9.1mb) SACH, Pakistan http://tinyurl.com/oyev7v8 Influencing Policy in the Philippines (Power point presentation, 412Kb) Medical Action Group, Philippines www.irct.org/Admin/Public/DWSDownload.aspx?File=%2fFiles%2fFiler%2fPresentatio ns+for+resource+kit%2fMAG+Philippines+Policy+Influence.pptx 5.3 Advocacy based on the health based entry point of rehabilitation A key component of the work of the partners in this global project was in the area of advocacy – from the local to global level. This work was highly motivated on the basis that rehabilitation service providers hold a unique and powerful set of information and can be compelling advocates for change. Please refer to the rehabilitation centre power points linked below for examples of advocacy work of centres directed at international actors, the State, the police and to raise general awareness within communities about how to prevent torture and to ensure that victims were rehabilitated. It is important to recall that advocacy is but one tool to create the change that we all seek to end torture and rehabilitate its victims. Other tools regularly used include reaching out with community based approaches, campaigning and communications to influence change. In this regard, whether a rehabilitation service provider will engage in advocacy will be very context and resource specific. Working in partnerships to improve outcomes and to build solidarity are other common approaches taken by rehabilitation service providers to reach out within the health, human rights and development sector. In the work of the IRCT there are dedicated resources for carrying out a range of advocacy initiatives based on our evidence, either in individual cases, thematically or that is country specific. Depending on where the change we need can be delivered, we will use our information and expertise to influence a range of actors at the local level including those engaged in health, human rights, the administration of justice, policing and those running institutions where people are deprived of their liberty, such as jails, detention centres, prisons, where we know that the risk of torture runs high. At the regional or international level we will target various international mechanisms and in particular those relevant to torture survivors such as the Committee against Torture, the Human Rights Council and related committees and the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights. There are also opportunities we have yet to pursue under the UN relating to women, children and migrants. In this section we provide you with guidance on how to advance advocacy work and there are useful links to other areas of ongoing work. Advocacy using international mechanisms Good practice includes: 40