Corniche el Mazraa, Zreik Center, 5th floor
Beirut
Lebanon
- Human rights
Help alleviate the human suffering resulting from torture, both for the individual, the family members and the community, and enable people who have been subjected to violence and torture to achieve social integration through rehabilitation, and prevention of torture.
End impunity and bring to end acts of torture through the implementation of International Conventions and forcing the government to sign new ones and respect them.
Empower the capacities of marginalized categories of the society and introduce them to their rights, such as women, children, prisoners and detainees subject to violence and ill-treatment.
Prevent torture, violence and all forms of ill treatment through raising public awareness, conducting education and advocacy in order to promote knowledge of the reasons for torture, conventions and laws, treatment methods. By preventing torture we also ensure respect for human rights, social justice and a development towards a society without human suffering.
Lobby with other human rights organizations, in Lebanon, the Arab world and on the international level, in order to create an Arab program for fighting torture
1- Medical, Psychological, and Social Assistance to Victims of torture:
The overall objective of this project is to assist torture survivors in regaining their physical and psychological health in order to help them rebuild their lives and participate as fully as possible in society.
The specific objectives are providing free medical, psychological, social, and legal assistance to torture survivors.
2- Vocational Training for Victims of Torture:
This project aims at helping victims of torture and members of their families rebuild their lives, and get the education they need to enter the labor market as efficient and productive members.
3- Empowering the capacities of Iraqi Refugees:
The project aims at developing the skills of Iraqi refugees in Lebanon in order to offer them a bigger capacity to work and be productive members, and to enhance their chances to return to Iraq.
4- Decrease the marginalization of Lebanese women, victims of torture and domestic violence, domestic migrant workers and women refugees:
This project will help the target group compensate what they lost, as for their education, learn a profession, empower their skills, get certificates and make finding jobs easier, plus all the benefits they will get when they get introduced again to labor market, plus strengthening mechanisms that focus on their rights.
KRC offers medical and psychological assistance to the prisoners in Lebanese prisons, especially women.