NATIONAL REPORT 2016 member information MATESO CAT-Kenya Mwatikho Torture Survivors Organization (MATESO) is a community based Human Rights organisation comprising of torture survivors and families of torture victims with interest in: Center Against Torture founded in the year 2004 is a registered, an impartial NOT for profit, human rights organization based in Eldoret with a primary objective of providing holistic treatment and rehabilitation services to victims of torture and the prevention of torture. CAT has documented and presented over 100 high profile cases of torture pending in various courts in the country. Our work is organized in four thematic areas: • advocating against torture • creation of Human Rights awareness • identification and recruiting of other torture survivors • networking with other organization against torture • Providing quality holistic treatment and rehabilitation services to survivors of torture; • rehabilitation of the survivors through counselling and creation of Hope • Advocating the prevention and end of torture internationally, regionally and nationally; • advocacy for reparation and economic emancipation of the survivors and finally carrying out monitoring and documentation of torture. • Research and documentation; and • Organizational strengthening. MATESO’s treatment programme includes: psychotherapy, physiotherapy and somatic treatment. Treatment of psychological conditions directly relates to traumatisation. The multi-disciplinary treatment of torture survivors must run parallel with other services, including nursing and social counselling. IMLU The Independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU) is a governance, health and human rights non-profit organisation whose vision is A Just World Free from Torture. Our work is underpinned by a holistic approach involving litigation, medical and psychosocial rehabilitation of survivors of torture, monitoring government adherence to its human rights obligations and advocacy for policy, legal and institutional reforms. Over the last two decades IMLU assisted over 4,000 victims of torture, cruel, degrading and inhuman treatment through the support of national networks of professionals: doctors, trauma counselors, lawyers, human rights monitors and journalists. page 13