Publications

This module provides an overview of the psychological aspects of working with adult and child victims of trauma in strategic litigation. It is designed to inform civil society organisations and legal practitioners who work on human rights litigation and other forms of public interest litigation involving traumas from violence such as torture, sexual abuse and forced disappearances.

This training module gives an overview of torture and ill-treatment in detention settings, the forms of treatment in the context of detention or imprisonment that amount to torture, the legal standards to safeguard against torture and the mechanisms to report torture to prevent or stop it.

This training module covers the writing of human rights claims on behalf of individuals and against States before international and regional treaty bodies. Some of this advice can also be used to assist in writing complaints at the domestic level.

This training module explains what compensation is, its different forms, functions and limits. It also explains who is entitled to compensation and the challenges and obstacles in pursuing compensation in torture cases.

This training module explains what reparation is, its many forms, principles and standards. It also provides practical and comparative examples related to claiming and accessing reparations in different contexts in a survivor-centred manner and proposes strategies to overcome obstacles in the journey towards reparation.

This training module gives an overview of the different forums where survivors of torture or lawyers representing survivors of torture can submit their complaints to obtain justice and reparation.

This training module gives an overview of Advocacy, building advocacy strategy and identifying advocacy outcomes and targets. The module also discuss how to develop a survivor-centred narrative, the importance of building alliances and timing advocacy efforts.

This training module gives an overview on negotiation and settlements, how to consider settlement for torture cases, the power imbalance in settlement negotiations, and also examines the settlements under regional or domestic systems.