We’ve received stop-work orders from the U.S. requiring us to halt multiple international programs and furlough the majority of our staff. These closures impact safety, health and wellbeing of the people we serve. You can help:

RT @SAdamsR2P: "We Are in Disbelief." Medhanye, one of @CVTorg's furloughed staff in Ethiopia, talks about the destruction of USAID and ho…

RT @declanwalsh: ‘We are in disbelief’ - African nations reel as USAID is shuttered.

New in the @nytimes: “’We are in disbelief,’ said Medhanye Alem of the Center for Victims of Torture, which treats survivors of conflict-related trauma at nine centers in northern Ethiopia, all now closed.” Story by @declanwalsh

“Some were imprisoned and tortured, some have survived persecution and atrocities, some had loved ones taken from them and ‘disappeared.’ And some are children.” @SAdamsR2P writes about impacts of halting care programs for torture survivors.

RT @SAdamsR2P: Torture survivors deserve a pathway to healing and hope, not closed doors. @CVTorg's clients are people who have resisted ty…

Thousands of torture survivors and their families walk through CVT’s doors each year. The U.S. government has frozen funding for 75% of our int'l programs. The survivors we support come to CVT with deep and complex experiences of trauma. Some are children. Read more by @SAdamsR2P

In @TheAtlantic, @ssroehm comments on the drastic impacts of stoppages on clients, noting he "fears what will happen to people who have to stop their treatment—and those who never get help at all.” By @hanamkiros

Read about the impacts on survivors when psychosocial programs are forced to halt - by @SAdamsR2P

RT @FreefromTorture: Torture survivors everywhere should have access to rehabilitation. New US funding policies have devastating impacts fo…

The care we were providing is literally life-saving in cases @ssroehm comments. “It is devastating for the organization, the staff who have lost their jobs, and most heartbreakingly, for the survivors that all of those staff were providing care.”

RT @CVTorg: “We’re having to turn away torture survivors who are desperate for help, for whom we are a lifeline back to healing and hope.”…

RT @SAdamsR2P: .@CVTorg serves torture survivors - people who have endured unspeakable horrors because of their opposition to tyranny and i…

RT @SAdamsR2P: .@CVTorg serves torture survivors - people who have endured unspeakable horrors because of their opposition to tyranny and i…

Opposition to torture is above politics: “. . . it's about freedom and justice for people who have suffered the worst things that human beings can do to one another.” @SAdamsR2P talks on @kare11 about CVT's program closures. By @rayaquttaineh

“The whiplash alone associated with these kinds of sudden, erratic, and confusing developments is deeply harmful to torture victims and the other beneficiaries we serve.” @ssroehm comments on impacts of CVT's recent program closures.

“We’re having to turn away torture survivors who are desperate for help, for whom we are a lifeline back to healing and hope.” Comments by @SAdamsR2P on CVT’s program closures. By @MarkZdechlik

RT @RCUSA_DC: Thanks to congressional leaders ​​@RepRaskin, @PramilaJayapal, @SenatorDurbin, & @SenAlexPadilla for asking @Secrubio to rest…

RT @SAdamsR2P: For 40 years both Republican and Democrat admins in the US 🇺🇸 have supported @CVTorg’s work with torture survivors around th…