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Imagine you having a neighbour you haven’t seen for a while, let’s say two months. You work, they work, you go to sports, they go to their hobby club, you have your own lives.
You haven’t seen or heard from them in a while yet they’re your neighbour: how do you feel about your relationship with them? Just fine? Too thin?
Could it use some attention to enliven the hood?
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In one month, on June the 26th, it’s the “United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture”.
For the IRCT, abbreviation for “The International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims”, today is the start of a large, worldwide campaign to help raise awareness for the problem of torturing and the effects of it for its victims.
The IRCT is a worldwide organization which helps the torture survivors to start building a new life for themselves, and at the same time fights to ban torturing from the planet entirely.
Like every NGO, the organization greatly depends on the support of donors and people’s goodwill.
This year, the IRCT plans to more than ever denounce the problem of torture and the effects of it, and continue the battle against it.
With this, the IRCT calls upon people but even more so upon the media which nowadays connect people and therefore make it possible for NGO’s to mobilize the world on a bigger scale, and with a larger and faster reach: social media.
This happens through the “World without Torture” campaign, which has the goal to make the dream of a world without torture reality, with the use of a Facebook and Twitter account, amongst other things.