Hemayat

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Hemayat is a care center for torture and war survivors in Vienna . The word "Hemayat" comes from the Persian and Arabic language areas and means care or protection . The non-profit organization Hemayat was founded in Vienna in 1995 as a center for medical, psychological and psychotherapeutic care for survivors of torture and war.

Awards

• 2000: Solidarity Prize of the Archdiocese of Vienna
• 2008: Humanity Award of the Red Cross
• 2009: Alexander Friedmann Prize from the ESRA psychosocial center
• 2010: Karl Renner Prize of the City of Vienna
• 2011: Bruno Kreisky Prize for services to human rights

literature

• Barbara Preitler (Ed.): Without any trace ... Psychotherapeutic work with relatives of "disappeared" people. Psychosozial Verlag: 2006.
• Siroos Mirzaei and Martin Schenk (eds.): Images of torture: Hemayat: 15 years of work with traumatized refugees. Almond tree: 2010. ISBN 3-85476-351-4

Web links

• Organization website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Austrian Red Cross awards the Heinrich Treichl Prize for the 14th time. May 7, 2008, accessed April 27, 2018 .