El Nadim Center for the Management and Rehabilitation of victims of violence is an independent Egyptian NGO that was established in August 1993 as a civil not for profit company.
During the first year of its establishment El Nadim restricted its activity to the provision of psychological rehabilitation to victims of torture and the provision of medicolegal reports whenever this was necessary.
At that time we had been working in other human rights organizations and found great difficulty in issuing reports for victims of torture from official medical institutions such as university or government hospitals.
However, in our evaluation of the first year of our work, we realized that working with torture cannot be complete without making the issue public: i.e. publishing, campaigning and mobilization of different societal sectors against a practice that has gone completely out of hand over the past two decades. We have adhered to this approach in all our later activities, whether those were related to torture, violence against women El Nadim El Nadim Center for the Management and Rehabilitation of victims of violence is an independent Egyptian NGO that was established in August 1993 as a civil not for profit company.
During the first year of its establishment El Nadim restricted its activity to the provision of psychological rehabilitation to victims of torture and the provision of medicolegal reports whenever this was necessary.
At that time we had been working in other human rights organizations and found great difficulty in issuing reports for victims of torture from official medical institutions such as university or government hospitals. However, in our evaluation of the first year of our work, we realized that working with torture cannot be complete without making the issue public: i.e. publishing, campaigning and mobilization of different societal sectors against a practice that has gone completely out of hand over the past two decades.
We have adhered to this approach in all our later activities, whether those were related to torture, violence against women or other issues of democracy and freedom of Civil Society.
Publications
a. Code of Ethics: El Nadim has participated in a series of discussion groups regarding the development of a code of ethics for NGOs in general and human rights NGOs in particular. The initiative started after the governmental attack on civil companies in general and human rights organizations in particular. The declaration of principles has been drafted and is circulating among NGOs for its discussion and endorsement. El Nadim has endorsed the code of ethics and is appearing in its three-year book as one of its references
b. Torture report: El Nadim has published a report on Torture inside and outside police stations, in the period 1993 - 1996. The report was based on the experience of the clients who came to the attention of El Nadim, and included a review of: the reasons for torture, the methods of torture and the physical and psychological consequences, reports on cases who died under torture, report on victims of state violence and some case studies of some of those victims. The report was written in Arabic and translated in English and widely distributed inside and outside Egypt.
c. Three years of El Nadim: This is the first publication of El Nadim, and has the history of the center, an overview of its clients and the challenges it was met with. It also has a compilation of the statements and appeals made by the center over the period 1993 - 1997
d. A call from the Afterworldis a booklet issued jointly by El Nadim and the Legal Aid Center for Human Rights documenting the torture of an Egyptian farmer during his interrogation in a murder crime by Egyptian police in the governorate of EL Fayoum to the South of Cairo. The man was burnt with kerosene and left unconscious in front of El Fayoum Central hospital. El Nadim managed to transfer the victim via different hospitals into a university hospital in Cairo and, through pressure on the Ministry of health, granted him some of this treatment expenses. Unfortunately the man died because of the extent of his burn and his brother is currently raising a case in court against the respective authorities. The documentation of this story was produced in over 6000 copies and has been distributed to all media contacts, political parties and all human rights meetings in Egypt.
e. Torture in Egypt: Facts and Testimonies 2002 reprinted in 2004 (Arabic + English)
f. Torture in Sudan: Facts and Testimonies, 2003 (Arabic + English summary)
g. Days of Torture: Women in police custody, 2004 (Arabic)
h. Doctors and Torture, 2006 (Arabic)
i. Torture in Egypt 2003- 2006, 2007 (Arabic & English) j. Woman Testemonies about Domestic Violence 2006 (Arabic)
