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  • Resettlement and Resilience – An Evening with Mohammed Alsaleh & Sari Alesh
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    Resettlement and Resilience – An Evening with Mohammed Alsaleh & Sari Alesh

    ByVCST October 17, 2018February 17, 2021

    Wednesday, November 28On November 28th, VCST partnered with Disaster Aid Canada to present internationally recognized, Syrian-Canadian speaker Mohammed Alsaleh shared some of his stories while together we explore the topic…

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  • Peter Golden, RIP.
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    Remembering Peter Golden

    ByVCST August 9, 2018November 27, 2018

    We are profoundly saddened by the passing of Peter Golden, a co-founder and long-time board member of Victoria Coalition for Survivors of Torture. For over thirty years, Peter served as…

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  • Chasing Asylum – Documentary film screening
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    Chasing Asylum – Documentary film screening

    ByVCST February 25, 2018April 16, 2025

    Presented with: University of Victoria Social Justice Studies Monday, March.19th 7:00pm-9:30pm University of Victoria – David Strong Building C122This powerful documentary explores Australia’s controversial Pacific Solution Policy as it relates to…

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    Constance on the Edge film screening and AGM

    ByVCST September 8, 2017February 17, 2021

    SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25th, 2017Greater Victoria Public Library Central Branch, Community Meeting Room VCST proudly presented Constance on the Edge, a film that follows a Sudanese Family for 10 years from refugee…

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    Let’s Talk About Torture at the Canadian Bioethics Society Conference

    ByVCST April 27, 2014April 16, 2025

    We’ve been accepted to deliver our workshop called “Let’s Talk About Torture…

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    Excited to Support World Refugee Day!

    ByVCST March 27, 2014November 27, 2018

    How can we change the conversation about refugees and others seeking protection? Explore, be curious, learn and celebrate with us on World Refugee Day, June 20th. We are working with…

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  • Members of the VCST board and medical comunity in Victoria meet to work on an workshop
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    Workshop Development Underway

    ByVCST December 3, 2013November 21, 2018

    We started developing this workshop a month ago. We met up with the VCST board and medical professionals and began hashing out what will become a workshop …

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  • George Bush points into a crowd
    Justice

    Bush and Associates authorized torture

    ByVCST May 9, 2012November 27, 2018

    “The third day of the Kuala Lumpur war crimes tribunal hearing saw the prosecution present its submission to establish that the accused parties are indeed guilty as charged for the Crime of Torture and Crimes Against Humanity…

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    Articles about the protection of unethical behaviour of psychologists

    ByVCST April 12, 2012November 21, 2018

    “Protecting Psychologists who Harm; the American Psychological Association’s latest wrong turn”, an editorial by Roy Eidelson Ph.D:

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  • George Bush points into a crowd
    Justice

    Canada urged to arrest and prosecute George W. Bush due his involvement in the promulgation of torture

    ByVCST August 13, 2011November 21, 2018

    The Victoria Coalition for the Survivors of Torture expresses our emphatic and full support for efforts to bring George W. Bush to a full and fair trial…

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    Gandhi quote

    ByVCST October 2, 2009November 21, 2018

    “You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.” — Mohandas Gandhi

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