NATIONAL REPORT 2016
member
information
bzfo has been rehabilitating victims of torture and violent
conflict from over 40 countries since 1992. People fleeing from
torture and persecution from Chechnya, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria,
Lebanon, Somalia, Eritrea and the Balkans have sought help
over the years.
bzfo’s multidisciplinary team is specialised in medicine,
psychotherapy, psychology, physiotherapy, social work and
creative therapies. Together with trained interpreters bzfo
treats 400 patients a year. bzfo raises awareness through
publications both for the general public and decision-makers, through participation in workshops and conferences,
by networking with national as well as international
organisations and bodies as well as public relation work.
Our international activities focus on the establishment of
treatment centres in persecutory states and crisis areas.
of torture in France as well as national and international
advocacy to promote the right to rehabilitation.
Notes and references
1
Bzfo participated in a project, which attempted to institutionalize the early identification of victims of torture with the Regional authorities in Berlin. The Berlin Network
for Particularly Vulnerable Refugees. Available at: http://www.migrationsdienste.org/
projekte/bns3.html.
4
Eurostat, Asylum in the EU Member States, Record number of over 1.2 million first
time asylum seekers registered in 2015, Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis: top citizenships.
4 March 2016
The Asylum Seekers’ Benefit Act of 1993 restricts access to healthcare to cases of
“acute diseases or pain” in which “necessary” medical treatment must be provided.
2
Mechthild Wenk-Ansohn und Sven Veigel: „Gewalt mit Mehtode?- Das Dublinverfahren und Menschenrechtsverletzungen an den EU-Außengrenzen“, Asylmagazin
6/2015, S. 187-193.
3
see for example, Richter et al. (2015): ”Warten auf Asyl: Psychiatrische Diagnosen in
der zentralen Aufnahmeeinrichtung in Bayern”.
5
Bzfo, Refugio Munich and ACET Bulgaria
6
7
I.Bermejo et al (2012): ”Subjektiv erlebte Barrieren von Personen mit Migrationshintergrund bei der Inanspruchnahme von Gesundheitsmaßnahmen”, Bundesgesundheitsblatt 2012, S. 944-953.
page 9