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Supporting
community-based activism
for mental health and human rights...
SAVE
THE DATE:
For
our 20th Anniversary Special Event
Human
Rights Legacies of
the Martyrs of El Salvador
Wednesday November 4, 2009
7:00 PM --
Gasson Hall, Boston College
Grant
Announcement:
For 2010, The Fund WILL be Accepting
Applications from New Projects
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Further Information & Instructions
Torture
Update:
American Psychological
Association
Finally Takes a Stand on Torture
By Brad Olson, Dan Aalbers and Ruth Fallenbaum
Since 2006, the Ignacio Martín-Baró Fund for Mental
Health and Human Rights and its supporters have been confronting the
American Psychological Association's tacit approval of the involvement
of psychologists in torture and other cruel and unusual treatment in
U.S. detention facilities. Many of our readers signed our web-based
petition demanding a change in APA policy (see below.)
Finally, the Martín-Baró Fund and other grassroots groups
can declare at least partial victory. Last year, a membership referendum
campaign led by activists both within and outside the American Psychological
Association resulted in a new, clear policy barring psychologists from
working in U.S. detention centers that violate the Constitution or international
law unless they are working directly for the detainees themselves or
for third-party human rights groups representing the interests of detainees…
Read the full article in the Spring,
2009, issue of The Just
Word
MBF
Petition Campaign
Thanks
for your support!
Responding to concern over growing
evidence that psychologists and other mental health workers have been
involved in interrogations, and in some cases torture, of detainees
at Guantánamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, and elsewhere, the Martín-Baró Fund launched
a petition campaign calling on the American Psychological Association
to take concrete action to put an end to these practices.We
collected more than 1,000 signatures, which were presented by some of
our members to the American Psychological Association's 2006 convention
in New Orleans. For more information, see page 5 of the Summer, 2007,
issue of The Just Word.
View
Petition to APA
View Signatures
View
Comments from other Supporters
Torture Resources and Links
Who
We Are
The
Martín-Baró Fund was established to honor the memory of Father Ignacio
Martín-Baró, a Jesuit priest and social psychologist who was murdered
in El Salvador in 1989, and to further the goals to which he dedicated
his life. Our grants support progressive, grassroots groups throughout
the world who are challenging institutional repression and confronting
the mental health consequences of violence and injustice in their communities.
Photo
from Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya, Chiapas, Mexico,
a project supported by the Fund in 2000, 2001 & 2002
| Our
Mission & Values |
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Mission |
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Through
grant-making and education, the Martín-Baró Fund fosters psychological
well-being, social consciousness, active resistance, and progressive
social change in communities affected by institutional violence,
repression and social injustice. |
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Values |
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We
believe that the scars of such experiences are deeply seated both
in the individual and in society. |
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believe in the power of the community collectively to heal these
wounds, to move forward, and to create change. |
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believe in the importance of developing education and critical awareness
about the oppressive policies and practices of the United States
and of multinational corporations. |
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Goals |
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To support innovative
grassroots projects that explore the power of the community to
foster healing within individuals and communities that are trying
to recover from experiences of institutional violence, repression,
and social injustice.
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To
promote education and critical awareness about the psychosocial
consequences of structural violence, repression and social injustice
on individuals and communities, while educating ourselves and the
wider community about the community-based reponses of grantees in
their pursuit ot social reparation and a more just and equitable
world. |
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To
build collaborative relationships among the Fund, its grantees,
and its contributors for mutual education and social change. |
Supporting
the Fund
We are a special project
of The Funding Exchange. Contributions
to the Ignacio Martín-Baró Fund, made through the Funding Exchange,
are fully tax-deductible.
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English
to Spanish translations
courtesy
of Melisa Flores
©
2009, Ignacio Martín-Baró Fund for Mental Health & Human Rights
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