1. This Report on Dormant Accounts of Victims of Nazi Persecution in Swiss Banks by the Independent Committee of Eminent Persons (“ICEP” or the “Committee”) represents the culmination of a three-year investigation. The guiding principle of this endeavor has been to find as much of the truth about the fate of these victims’ accounts, dating from before or during World War II, and their treatment...

There were 958 patients who suffered from the tsunami diaster on 26 December 2004, and came to Vachira Phuket Hospital. 326 cases were admitted with severe respiratory complications. 42 cases had sputum culture, and 20 of them grew gram negative microorganism. The authors present 3 cases.

This paper focuses on physical and psychological traumas of children during and after the Greek Civil War (1946-1949). There were two evacuation programmes: one organised by the Greek Communist Party to seven countries of Eastern Europe and the other by the Greek government and Queen Frederica to children's homes (paidopoleis) in the country. The paper also argues that Greek refugee children ex...

Rampant sexual violence is one of the most horrendous human rights abuses taking place within Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) armed conflict. The UN has called these abuses “strategic” and a “weapon of war.” Both labels carry specific implications within the human rights discourse. However, there is a lack of structured data exploring these concepts in the context of the DRC. To addres...

The paper examines Jure Kaštelan’s poem Typhus Victims, an emblematic text of modern Croatian literature, from the perspective his relation to thematic context contagion (typhus) and war (World War II), key semantic pillars leading death as inevitable result. Victims is example synthesis diverse literary modes on numerous discursive levels — starting with polyvalence, where they participate wit...

The diagnostic process and treatment of victims of war and torture is associated with a number of difficulties. This article will provide an overview of three different approaches on how the new media may be integrated into the treatment of survivors of torture and war to face some of the challenges. Illiteracy is a common problem and makes it difficult to apply standardized psychological asses...

AIM To present organization of psychosocial support and treatment of traumatized persons during and after the 1991-1995 war in Croatia. METHOD Description of application and results of community-based National Program of Psychosocial Help to War Victims, and retrospective analysis of hospitalizations for psychotrauma at the National Center for Psychotrauma, Dubrava University Hospital. RESU...

Tens of thousands of Iranians were killed and more were physically and/or mentally injured in Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988). During this war the most extensive use of chemical weapons in recent years by Iraq was reported against Iranian veterans and also Iranian and Iraqi civilians. In this study we aimed at finding probable neuropsychological injuries in victims of chemical weapons comparing other...

Tens of thousands of Iranians were killed and more were physically and/or mentally injured in Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988). During this war the most extensive use of chemical weapons in recent years by Iraq was reported against Iranian veterans and also Iranian and Iraqi civilians. In this study we aimed at finding probable neuropsychological injuries in victims of chemical weapons comparing other...