The Research and Support Center for Victims of Maltreatment
and Social Exclusion
2 G.Papandreu str.
45444, Ioannina
Hellas
Tel: +302.651.078810
Fax: +302.651.072378
email:
http://www.cvme.gr
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What about us
The Research and Support Center for Victims of Maltreatment and Social Exclusion (CVME), is a civil, non profit association , whose Statute has been legally published in the Instant Court of Justice of Ioannina with ref. no. 504/94. CVME is an independent, humanitarian, non governmental association.
Its targets are, the defense of human rights and the support of victims of maltreatment and social exclusion.
Background
In November 1994, 27 members established the Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims of Ioannina (RCTVI). This Center was established due to radical political developments, that were realized some years earlier, allowing, on one hand the collapse of the despotic established order of Balkan, and on the other hand the massive entrance of immigrants from neighbor countries, in Greece.
RCTVI’s target at that time, was the defense of human rights and the prevention of torture as well as every cruel, inhuman and humiliating treatment or penalty. The initiative for the establishment of RCTVI was then taken from Dr. Nikos Bilanakis , meanwhile a lot of help was given then, by the International Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims (IRCT).
Our activities have been progressively broadened since then, by adding to our targets the protection of all victims of maltreatment and social exclusion. From 1999, we changed, typically, our Center’ s name to Research and Support Center for Victims of Maltreatment and Social Exclusion. (CVME), modifying its statutional targets.
Publications from our centers' collaborators
1. N. Bilanakis (1992): Translation in Greek of the book "Contemporary approaches to the psychotherapy of torture victims", written by Peter Vesti and Inge Kamp Genefke. Psychiatric Notebooks, No 38:32-49.
2. N. Bilanakis (1994): "Personality features of the greek detainees: correlations with demographic and psychopathological indicators." Psychiatry, Vol.5, No 3-4: 151-161.
3. N. Bilanakis (1995): "State of mental health of detainees in greek prisons." Engephalos, No32:283-294.
4. N. Bilanakis (1995): "Medical Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims: a report on a sixmonth clinical work." Torture, Vol 6, No 3.
5. N. Bilanakis (1995): "Torture and Psychopathology" Psychiatric notebooks, 52: 60-68.
6. N. Bilanakis, E, Pappas, V, Baldic,M. Jokic (1996): "The state of the mental health of refugees of war in a Serbian refugee camp".Psychiatry Today,No 28, 1-2.
7. N. Bilanakis, E, Pappas, V. Baldic, M.Jokic (1997): "Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in a refugee camp in Serbia". Torture, Vol 7, No 1.
8. N. Bilanakis, E. Pappas (1997): "War refugees in concentration camps: The consequences of war in the mental health." Psychiatry, Vol 8, No 2:109-118.
9. N. Bilanakis, E. Pappas, M. Dinou (1998): "The impact of political suppression and torture on the second generation". Torture, Vol 8, No 1.
10. N.Bilanakis, D. Lecic-Tosevski, Dimitra B. Alexiou (1998): "Children of War hosted by Greek families for six months: The Effect of the Program on Children and Hosting Mothers." The European Journal of Psychiatry, 1999 accepted for publication.
Objectives
The statutional targets of CVME are:
The supply of medical, psychological, social and legal support to victims of torture and organized violence, victims of maltreatment and social exclusion.
The sensitization of the general population in human rights issues and the transmission of knowledge for the existence of the phenomena of violence and social exclusion, and the possibilities of coping with them.
The supply of humanistic assistance to populations that have been subjected to organized violence, tortures, maltreatment, social exclusion, not only in Greece but in other countries as well.
The carrying out of scientific researches on violence and torture, maltreatment and the phenomenon of social exclusion.
The contribution to the prevention of torture, maltreatment and social exclusion, through all the pre-mentioned targets
It is addressed to
CVME offers its services to those people or groups of people that have been subjected to violence, torture, maltreatment or social exclusion. Such people, for example could be:
o immigrants and refugees(legal or illegal)
o torture victims (ex political convicts)
o women and children victims of domestic violence
o victims of rape
o victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation
o Roma people
o Beggar children
o Homeless people
CVME, is also addressed to the general population aiming at the sensitization or/and its training in human rights issues, moreover its active participation in social dialogue.
Useful links from all over the world
International Center for Victims of Torture
www.irct.org
World Organization Against Torture
www.omct.org
European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
www.cpt.coe.int
Greek Helsinki Committee
www.greekhelsinki.gr
The Greek Ombudsman
www.synigoros.gr
UNHCR
www.unhcr.ch
UNICEF
www.unicef.gr
Greek Council for Refugees
www.gcr.gr
International Organization for Migration
www.iom.int
Hellenic Committee of Bioethics
www.bioethics.gr
Physicians for Human Rights (USA)
www.phrusa.org
Physicians for Human Rights (UK) www.dundee.ac.uk/med&humanrights/ssm/phr/home.html
Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry
www.geneva-initiative.org
Amnesty International
www.amnesty.org
Hellenic Red Cross
www.redcross.gr
Marangopoulos Fountation for Human Rights
www.mfhr.gr
Research Center for Equality Issues
www.kethi.gr
Medicines du Monde - Greece
www.mdmgreece.gr
Hamogelo Paidiou
www.hamogelo.gr
Anti-Slavery
www.antislavery.org
CAST
www.trafficked-women.org
La Strada - Ukraine
www.brama.com/lastrada/about.html
Miramed Institute
www.miramedinstitute.org
OSCE
www.osce.org
United Nations University
www.unu.edu
Universiteit Utrecht
www.law.uu.nl
The Danish Center for Human Rights
www.humanrights.dk
Academy for European Law
www.iue.it/AEL/agenda2000.htm
National University of Galway - Ireland
www.nuigalway.ie/index.php