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2014
ODVV
Commemoration of the International Day in Support of Torture Victims
The technical sitting on the "Treatment of Victims of Torture" was held in June 2014 by the ODVV with
the cooperation of UNIC in Iran on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Torture Victims
and the reading of the UN Secretary General's message for the day. Participating in the workshop
were 30 experts and psychotherapists. In this sitting the short and long term therapy approach in the
rehabilitation and treatment of victims of torture was reviewed and while determining and defining
the therapy procedures, stress was also made on the necessity to adopt successful therapy methods
in support of torture victims. Also the characteristic indicators of the torturers and the cognitive
dimensions of individuals that torture the victims was analysed, determined and discussed.
Commemoration of the International Day of Non-Violence
The technical sitting on “Prevention of Violence” was held in September 2014 on the occasion of the
International Day of Non-Violence in the presence of 30 psychologists and therapists at the ODVV
conference hall.
Following the reading of the UN Secretary General’s message by the representative from UNIC in
Tehran, as well as the reviewing of types of violence, stress was made on the importance of the
definition of violence as a guideline issue. Types of violence, getting life and communications skills,
importance of education for victims of violence, and intervention methods for the protection of people
at risk of violent relationships were also reviewed in this sitting.
At the end of the sitting, communications skills, determination skills, problem solving, resolving
disputes and anger control were defined and briefed as the five fundamental and necessary skills for
victims of violence and how to have violence free relationships.
Holding of Sittings and Confernces
National NGOs Conference Held in the Presence of the President and ODVV’s
Director’sSpeech
The National NGOs Conference was held in the presence of the President in the Interior Ministry's
Conference Hall. Six NGOs activists and directors made speeches on their views and their requests
from the President. ODVV director, Mr. Siavash Rahpeik made a speech the text of which is as
follows: “Mr. President,We want the government voted by the people to be knowledgeable, strong,
manager, observer and agile, participation of the Minister with the least levels of being in charge in
all various dignities of society.
Of course if wewant matureNGOs that are experts, sympathetic, criticising and away frompoliticisation
and sensationalisation, and seek participation. One of the issues related to NGOs is a lack of clear