Report shows torture survivors face poverty barrier in UK
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The Poverty Barrier: The Right to Rehabilitation for Survivors of Torture in the UK
Poverty including destitution among survivors of torture in the UK is a barrier to their rehabilitation from one of the most brutal crimes, a shocking new report released by Freedom from Torture on 17 July shows.
- Evidence in 'The Poverty Barrier: The right to rehabilitation for survivors of torture in the UK' reveals:
- Dreadful levels of poverty among torture survivors - during and after their passage through the UK's asylum system
- How the day-to-day struggles of living without the means to meet basic living needs reinforce the powerlessness, fear and isolation which is the torture survivor's inheritance from their past
- How poverty and powerlessness impede the realisation of torture survivors' right to rehabilitation guaranteed under international law.
You can download the report and a summary at http://www.freedomfromtorture.org/document/reports/7466
