#122 Caring for victims of torture and ill-treatment
With Dr Rachael Pickering
In today's global society, refugees fleeing man's inhumanity to man can be found across the world. Their physical, mental and spiritual scars travel with them.
The first webinar in this series looked at definitions, international humanitarian law, types of ill-treatment, and the biblical response to such horrors.
This second webinar will give an introduction as to how non-experts may provide basic CARE for complainants and victims - and not just Caring but also Advocating, Recording and Evidencing - according to the standards set out in the United Nations-approved Istanbul Protocol.
Dr Rachael Pickering
Dr Rachael Pickering is a British-trained family medicine specialist. Since 2007 she has majored on offender healthcare. When in the UK she locums within English prisons.
She is the co-founder of Integritas Healthcare, a faith-inspired NGO with a HEART for detainees – delivering Healthcare, Expertise, Advocacy, Research & Training for & about detainees. The pandemic gave Integritas the opportunity to branch out into telemedicine. But in the non-virtual world, Rachael spends about a quarter of her life working behind bars in the Philippines and other low- and middle-income countries.
Rachael is married to fellow prison doctor Mark who is also the CEO of the UK's CMF. Their greatest joy is their young adult daughter Zoe who spent most of her teenage years hopping in and out of Asian jails. She became the best healthcare assistant a prison doc could wish for!
