Best practices
Country,
IRCT member
Provide legal assistance to victims; collaborate with legal
professionals and the court to improve support
The rehabilitation centre’s own legal team collaborates with external
lawyers and other NGOs with legal expertise to assist clients in legal
cases.
Colombia, Corporación
AVRE;
Germany, bzfo;
Moldova, RCTV Memoria
Legal clinics established in collaboration with the UN to assist victims
and families by accompanying them to court and providing legal advice
and assistance. Awareness raising campaigns organised within victims’ DRC, Save Congo
communities to encourage victims to engage in legal proceedings
against perpetrators.
Meetings held with judges, lawyers, human rights activists to assist
torture victims involved in legal proceedings.
Direct legal advice provided to torture victims, including legal
representation before the court, free of charge.
Collaborations with court, including monitoring trials and providing
experts for court. In some cases, experts produce medico-legal reports
as evidence in proceedings.
Lebanon, RESTART
Kenya, IMLU;
Serbia, IAN CRTV;
Turkey, SOHRAM /
CASRA
Moldova, RCTV
Memoria;
Palestine, TRC
Psycho-legal sessions provided as part of psychosocial support
services. These aim to strengthen the resilience of victims and family to The Philippines, BALAY
participate in legal proceedings.
Training to lawyers on trauma management and how to respond to
traumatised clients is offered.
Sudan, ACTRVT
Coordination in the context of forensic examinations
Collaboration with Equipo Peruano de Antropología Forense (EPAF),
a Peruvian forensic team. EPAF helped develop skills to conduct postmortem interviews to collect information on crimes and victims, to
identify and document evidence, conduct forensic investigations and
produce forensic reports to be used as evidence in legal proceedings.
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Kenya, MATESO
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