THEMATIC REPORT 2017 SEXUAL TORTURE Overview of the Data in the Fight against Impunity (DFI) Project Central to the development of the torture rehabilitation sector’s ability to evidence its work, is the collection of appropriate, consistent and comparable clinical information. The Data in the Fight against Impunity (DFI) Project is a system-wide response to creating this ability. Across the globe, hundreds of rehabilitation centres are providing services to thousands of torture victims on a daily basis. Through the DFI project, IRCT members have started to systematically collect data relating to their clients in order to create long-term change. With better data it is hoped that civil society organisations working in the field of torture prevention and rehabilitation will be able to identify trends relevant to their work and use the data to fight impunity more effectively. In June 2014, 12 rehabilitation centres from around the world came together to develop and test a data collection system to enable them to collect clinical data and integrate the documentation of torture throughout the rehabilitation process. This data can then be used to create powerful evidence-based approaches with the potential to mobilise the public and to target governments to act and to disseminate evidence-based outputs to support anti-impunity work. The centres started to use the database in February 2015 and to adapt it to their clinical record-keeping practices. They have used the data to share reports about the identity of survivors, the places they were tortured, how they were tortured and by whom. The initial participants in the project have since been joined by 20 additional rehabilitation centres for the second phase of the project. Data is now being collected by 33 rehabilitation centres in 28 countries. page 7