Find out why Sri Lanka’s withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council resolution is significant for both survivors of torture and the future of human rights in Sri Lanka.
My challenge was simple: ride my bike up sky road (between Manchester and Huddelsfield) 27 times, the equivalent height gain of Mount Everest 8848m in a single day.
Torture is rampant across the globe. Since Freedom from Torture was founded in 1985, we have been passionately committed to shining a light on torture practices and holding torturing states to account. But in 2020, the sky is darkening.
Here at Freedom from Torture, we use art therapy to help survivors of torture. Find out more about what art therapy is, how it affects the brain and what it can treat.
Freedom from Torture is delighted that long standing staff member, and co-founder of the campaigning network Survivors Speak OUT, Kolbassia Haoussou has been appointed as a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the New Year 2020 Honours list.
Volunteers are the lifeblood of what we do. From campaigning, to volunteering in one of our five centres across the UK, to joining a local group, everybody has something to offer.
With Prime Minister Boris Johnson now back from his festival holiday, we've written him a human rights to-do list for his first 100 days in office. From human rights legislation after Brexit to ending the hostile environment, here are the policies that we want to see.
On International Migrants Day, these three powerful pieces explore different aspects of this challenge, from the difficulties of phoning home as an asylum seeker to alternative systems for measuring value.
On Human Rights Day, Write to Life member Tracy reveals the damaging labels that survivors of torture can face and discusses the importance of resilience.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa was elected as Sri Lanka’s President on November 16th 2019, in the second presidential election since the end of a bloody 26 year civil war.
If you want to campaign for survivors of torture this general election, here's everything you need to know from key facts and figures and how to get in touch with your parliamentary candidate.
The inauguration of Gotabaya Rajapaksa as President of Sri Lanka and the appointment of Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister signals a backward step for the delivery of accountability and justice in a country that has experienced mass human rights violations for decades.
These latest allegations of British torture and attempts by our politicians to cover it up are extremely disturbing – both their contents and the ongoing attempt by the British government to keep them under wraps.
Torture survivors, therapists and staff gathered in Birmingham’s Arts Centre to celebrate 10 years since the Freedom from Torture West Midlands Centre opened.
Read our submission against the proposals made by the UK government to provide British Forces with impunity from war crimes abroad from the last ten years.
Freedom from Torture's Lessons Not Learned report highlighted a series of failures in Home Office decision-making on asylum claims spanning 15 years. Today, leading refugee and migrant organisations have published an open letter to the Home Secretary, the Rt Hon Priti Patel MP signed by over 6500 individuals calling for high level commitment to a humane, fair and efficient asylum and immigration decision-making process that has a culture of protection at its heart.
One survivors story about how she was wrongly imprisoned in a detention centre in the UK before getting a place at a top law school in London on a scheme for asylum seekers.
