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