Torture Mission Statement

Since 1985, the Center for Victims of Torture have worked diligently to create a “future in which torture ceases to exist and its victims have hope for a new life” (CTV, 2017). Their direct mission statement for the CVT is as follows: they are here to heal the wounds of torture on individuals, their families, and their communities, and to end torture worldwide. I chose them for this assignment because I grew up in the era of a war on terror; and with this fear comes pain, fear, and torture for my fellow man overseas. The CVT states that their strategic plan for 2017 - 2019 is to build on their past work from these last few decades, and this includes training and the spreading of technical knowledge, increasing their reach to help more survivors, and strengthening their fact-based research to provide a higher quality of assistance to the victims found both domestically and internationally (2017).

The Center for Victims of Torture are an international non-profit organization from St. …show more content…
This to me is the best part of the service that they perform — unlike so many organizations, they genuinely care and follow up with their patients. The care and assistance is long term, and that appears to be so rare nowadays. They are needed because we fight so intensely to to hop into conflict, yet we forget the people on the sidelines that are hit by the bullets, that are cast into hiding, that are targeted by cruelty, and that are tortured in the name of something much larger than them. Their faces are invisible to us here at home because they simply aren’t in front of us, and so we block out that part of war. The CVT fights for their rights, and genuinely does good to help these victims recover from unimaginable pain in order to live the best life that I possibly can