their obligations to provide funding for services directed at the medical and psychological treatment and social support of VoTs includes asylum-seekers and refugees.149 It is concerning that many governments are cutting the public funding available for the most vulnerable sectors of the population. The IRCT encourages the readers of this report to influence the different stakeholders involved in national asylum procedures and the provision of rehabilitation services to address the current gaps and shortfalls in the protection offered to victims of torture at the national, regional and global level. The final part of this report lists our recommendations. Recognising victims of torture in national asylum procedures / 71