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World Day Against Enforced Disappearance


Mohammad Safa’s speech in The World Day Against Enforced Disappearance


We stand here before the International Red Cross Committee, honoring the 30th of August, The World Day Against Enforced Disappearance. Let us join forces with all international institutions and organizations, and the families of the kidnapped all over the world, as a reminder of their cause and as a sign of solidarity with their families, and to demand an unveiling of their fate.
Today there are mothers, families, children, and friends of those missing crying out for the truth and justice for the victims, and for keeping the instigators of the kidnapping operations from getting away without ...

Mothers Breaking Silence
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Khiam Center’s report of the universal periodic review on the status of human rights in Lebanon



Khiam Center’s report of the universal periodic review on the status of human rights in Lebanon

What is KRC?
Khiam Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Violence and Torture was founded in June 1999, it was called Khiam Center after Khiam Detention Camp in Southern Lebanon that was closed on the 23rd of May 2000. Khiam Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Violence and Torture is a non governmental organization which works to rehabiliate the victims of torture and violence and help them healthy, psychologically, socially, and vocoationally. KRC is an accredited member of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture (IRCT), member of the Global Network aga...


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KRC Consultative Status ( ECOSOC)




Safa: KRC Consultative Status ( ECOSOC)


The Secretary General of Khiam Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture, Mr. Mohammad Safa, has announced that the center has obtained the consultative status in the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC).

The meeting of the members of the Committee, composed of 19 countries, had held its meeting on the 28th of May till the 2nd of June 2010 at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

The committee recommended giving the consultative status to Khiam Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture .

Safa said, "We donate this achievement to Aman Network and to the I...

22 April Arab prisoner day
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Siren alarms about the situation of the Lebanese Prisons

The formation of the national preventive mechanism
Is the real means to address the situation of Lebanese prisons

From time to time , members of the Parliamentary Commission on Human Rights - last one of them was MP Sakr - visit a number of Lebanese prisons, and after the visit, they are out to public through media flashes by giving information about the squalid conditions in prisons and the need to develop emergency plans for treatment.
Khiam Rehabilitation Center for victims of violence and torture, whose Medical team visited 12 Lebanese prisons emphasizes that the problem of Lebanese prisons, is a miserable and old one and al...

COMMUNIQUE DE LA FAMILLE HOUCINE EL MANOUZI
COMMUNIQUE DE LA FAMILLE HOUCINE EL MANOUZI
«La lutte des familles des disparus est la lutte de
la mémoire contre l’oubli et pour la démocratie.»
Hadj Ali El Manouzi

POUR LA VERITE ET LA JUSTICE, NOUS NE CEDERONS PAS

Après un long et étrange silence, le CCDH est sorti de son mutisme et a procède le 14 janvier 2010 à la diffusion d’un rapport ayant trait à la mise en œuvre des recommandations de l’IER. Ce rapport fait état entre autres des résultats des investigations menées depuis 2005 pour dévoiler le sort des 66 citoyens disparus rest&eac...


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KRC annual report 2009

Khiam Centers Annual report about the project of rehabilitation for victims of torture

The stability of the secuirty and political situation has helped in the improvement of khiam centers activities, thus the center continued the third year of the medical, social and psychological assistance for victims of torture project funded by the European Union and the United Nations voluntary fund for victims of torture and OAK foundation that provides the assistance for victims of detention and torture and their families, besides the relatives of the missing in the Israeli and Syrian prisons. The mobile clinic, funded by the European Union has i...

January Monthly Report


Monthly Report for the activities of January 2010
Achieved by Khiam Rehabilitation Center
for Victims of Torture


 The center had implemented a medical, psychological, and a legal day in Nwairy center on 14/01/2010, 14 Iraqi families attended the activity, 20 of them were in need to medical assistance, the center provided for them free of charge and 24 persons had received psychological assistance by 2 psychologists who listen to their problems and gave them advices on how to deal with their psychological problems’, in addition to 15 persons who have legal problems rela...


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Khiam Center appreciates the invitation to activate the Lebanese diplomacy


Your Excellency, Dr. Ali Al-Shami,
the Minister of Emigrants & Foreign Affairs

Khiam Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture appreciates your invitation to activate the Lebanese diplomacy and to lead the Ministry of Foreign Affairs play an efficient role in defending Lebanon and all its relevant causes all over the world.
We do emphasize on the importance of committing to the International laws regarding human rights issues.
We do believe that this commitment reveals the bright side of each community, in the time when Lebanon is supposed to present its report on the human rights...

KRC's Annual 2008 Report: The Year of Vast Human Rights Violation
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Cluster Bombs
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Safa resigns from his job as a teacher and devotes himself to Human Rights Causes
Khiam Rehabilitation Center Secretary General Mr. Mohammed Safa was informed the decree number 2668 signed by the president of the Republic and the prime minister and the minister of Education and Higher Education, and minister of Finance in 30/10/2009 of ending his career as a teacher in the ministry of Education and Higher
Education, upon his own request because the years of his service in the cadre of the ministry of official education for more than 25 years.

Safa announced that he presented his resignation when the officials at the ministry of education did not fulfill their commitment towards him as for attaching him to one of the ministry’s institutions where they can benefit from his experience in the fie...