Solutions from Ukraine: Lviv to open Ukrainian first specialized center for victims of captivity and torture
The Unbroken Justice international forum will last 2 days. On the first day, the Lviv City Council will host a "Justice and Time" public conversation. The following will take part in it:
That is why it is so symbolic that today this event is taking place in Lviv, as part of the anniversary of the birth of Raphael Lemkin," says Philippe Sands, author of the bestseller East-West Street.
The next day, June 24, the St. Leo the Great Center will open – a space to support people who have gone through captivity and torture. According to Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovy, the center will provide professional assistance and create conditions for recovery.
The center will also host panel discussions on the following topics:
Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, human rights activist Maksym Butkevych, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe Bjorn Berge, Georgetown University professor Michelle Goodwin, and other experts will attend the event.
The organizers emphasize that the center will become a platform for implementing modern protocols for treating moral trauma.
Together with our foreign colleagues, we have worked on studying and understanding moral trauma, so we continue to overcome this challenge together," says Oleh Bereziuk, a psychiatrist and head of the mental health department at the UNBROKEN Center.
For reference:
As reported, Russia has created more than 300 detention facilities for Ukrainian prisoners of war, including pre-trial detention centers, prisons, and colonies both on its territory and in the occupied regions of Ukraine and Belarus. The Inferno project was created to collect data on the conditions in which Ukrainian military personnel are held in captivity.
It was also reported that the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the Central Directorate for Civil-Military Cooperation of the General Staff of Ukraine's armed forces developed a Handbook for service members released from captivity.
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