ARTIP – Awareness Raising and Training for the Istanbul Protocol

Period: 4/2010 – 12/2012

Funding: EU – Lifelong Learning Programm

Social and especially organized violence is one of the most destructive forces impacting on health, quality of life of individuals and groups, and on civil society in general. Careful interaction with and support of survivors in legal procedures, documentation, monitoring and persecution leading to both prevention and rehabilitation have been targeted therefore by international standards by the UN “Istanbul Protocol Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment” (IP).