Donate
ar EN

News Briefs

Al Mezan Opens Training Course for Medical Professionals on Detecting and Combating Torture

    Share :

13 September 2011 |Reference 39/2011

On Monday 12 September 2011, the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights began a specialized training course entitled “Medical Professionals’ Role in Detecting and Combating Torture,” held at the As-Salam Restaurant in Gaza City.
 About twenty-five medical professionals participated in the course.
 The training is part of a project that aims to combat torture in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, implemented jointly by Al Mezan, Adalah, and Physicians for Human Rights - Israel and supported by the European Commission.
  Waleed Ad-Dahnoun, the project lawyer, explained that the course aims to enhance medical professionals’ knowledge of the Convention Against Torture (CAT) and victims’ options for redress of torture under Palestinian, Israeli, and international law.
 Moreover, the training aims to strengthen health professionals’ skills in detecting and reporting incidents of torture.
  The course introduces participants to international human rights law, international humanitarian law, and international criminal law, given that torture is included in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
 In addition, it seeks to enhance participants’ skills in monitoring and documenting torture and writing effective reports, make them aware of and able to detect the physical signs of torture and teach ways to help victims of torture psychologically.
  The course consists of 24 training hours to be delivered over four days by a team of Al Mezan trainers and experts from Palestinian universities and civil society.
  PROJECT FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION JOINT PROJECT OF ADALAH, AL MEZAN (GAZA) AND PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS-ISRAEL

Browse more

Related