Int’l Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims elects Georgian Lela Tsiskarishvili president

With a network of over 150 torture rehabilitation centres in 75 countries, ICRT is the world’s largest membership-based civil society, which treats and assists torture survivors and their families. Photo: Daro Sulakauri.

 

Agenda.ge, 16 Oct 2020 - 13:22, Tbilisi,Georgia

Lela Tsiskarishvili, Executive Director at the Georgian Centre for Psychosocial and Medical Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (GCRT), has been elected president of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT).

In an increasingly violent world, with a shrinking space for human rights and civil society, we [IRCT] can only do  this if we support each other and act in unison, both within IRCT  and within the global human rights community. The coming years will we [IRCT] will do all that is within our power to make our voice heard, and make a strong contribution to the defense of human rights globally”, said Lela Tsiskarishvili, the newly elected president of IRCT.