Working with Torture and Trauma Survivors: How to Prepare a Successful Claim With Your Client

February 25, 2010

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Presented by Human Rights First, The Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition and American University International Human Rights Law Clinic

This session provided training to pro bono attorneys to prepare them to work with clients who have potential Convention Against Torture (CAT) claims, as well as to address the special legal and social service needs of torture and trauma survivors.

Handouts

Interviewing without Traumatizing: Working with Survivors of Torture
Sexual Trauma as Torture
Asylum Evuluations: Physical Torture and its Sequele
Legal Remedies
Social Services

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