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Poverty – an added burden for asylum seekers escaping from torture

26/07/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

If I am hungry and I buy something, then I can't afford to buy something the next day. Only occasionally I don't feel hungry. There’s nothing worse than thinking all your problems have ended because you get ‘status’ and then becoming homeless. It’s exhausting to survive …

Category: Freedom from Torture, Nutrition, PoliticsTag: asylum seekers, financial plight of asylum seekers, Freedom from torture, poverty among asylum seekers, Still Human Still Here, Survivors Speak Out, The Poverty Barrier, torture flashbacks, UN Convention against Torture

Freedom from Torture

24/03/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  3 Comments

The Radio 4 Appeal for next Sunday, Easter Sunday, will be for an organisation called Freedom from Torture, formerly known as the Medical Foundation for the Care of the Victims of Torture – the only organisation in the UK dedicated solely to the rehabilitation of torture …

Category: Blogging/social media, Food, PoliticsTag: 111 Isledon Road, Amnesty International, asylum seekers, Bread for Life at Freedom from torture, children of torture survivors, documenting evidence of torture, FoodsMatter adopts Freedom from Torture, Freedom from torture, Helen Bamber, human rights violations, Medical foundation for the victims of torture, poems and stories', Radio 4 appeal for Freedom from Torture, recipes, The Big Cook Up – Food memories, tortured for exercising freedom of expression, vocalsing opposition to government policies, volunteer therapists

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