WEBINAR - Redressing The Crimes of Torture

http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/3/1/6/2/event_185532642.jpegIn this Webinar Eva Sanchis from REDRESS is going to tell us about the work of her organisation in creating awareness over the use of torture by state authorities and the help that they provide to those who have suffered the trauma of torture.

Torture is the intentional infliction of severe mental or physical pain or suffering by or with the consent or acquiescence of state authorities (for example, police, military or security forces) for a specific purpose.

If acts are committed by a private person but the authorities fail to prevent and punish them, the State may be complicit or otherwise responsible for the acts. Torture is often used to punish someone, to get information or a confession, to intimidate or is based on discrimination.

Common methods of physical torture include beating, electric shocks, stretching, submersion in water, suffocation, burns, rape and sexual assault. Common methods of mental torture include isolation, threats, humiliation, mock executions, and witnessing the torture of others.

http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/c/5/0/event_186423152.jpegEva Sanchis has worked as a reporter and editor at daily newspapers for two decades. During 2000-2010 she worked in New York, where she covered different beats, from government and education to courts and immigration. Some of the big stories that she has covered are 9/11-related news, two US presidential elections, two New York City mayoral elections, the 2008 financial crisis, and the beatification of John Paul II in Rome.She was also a International Reporting Project Fellow in Washington, D.C., and has presented on immigration at both Columbia University and Berkley University.

After relocating to London in 2011, she has been working as Communication Officer of REDRESS, a London-based international NGO that seeks justice and reparation for survivors of torture. She also freelances for the Financial Times Magazine and other publications and has been teaching journalism to immigrants groups in London as part of a EU-funded project.

http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/3/1/9/e/event_185532702.jpegREDRESS is a human rights organisation that helps torture survivors obtain justice and reparation. REDRESS works with survivors to help restore their dignity and to make torturers accountable.

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