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North Rift Valley, Kenya

In the North Rift Valley of Kenya, HealthRight worked in partnership with Kepsteno Rotwo (Abandoning the Knife), an organization founded by former circumcisers who realized the need to stop the harmful practice of female genital mutilation (FGM). Beginning in 2011, HealthRight provided capacity building and resources for the annual Alternative Rites of Passage (ARP), which offers adolescent girls a week of education about the negative consequences of FGM, safe motherhood, HIV/AIDS and other health and development topics deemed essential to Pokot womanhood. The ARP provided protection to girls during the school holidays in December when FGM is typically performed, reaching over 200 girls each year.

Ukraine

The STEPS program, aims to reduce HIV risk behaviors and provide comprehensive case management, and HIV testing for delinquent adolescents. The program also builds the capacity of service providers to deliver case management, HIV prevention and testing, and recidivism risk reduction education. STEPS meets at-risk adolescents where they are – in juvenile prisons, detention centers, street settings, drop-in centers and orphanages – and tailors the education content to the risks and experiences of each group including incarcerated adolescent boys. In 2015, a total of 842 adolescents in conflict with the law and 138 of their parents were engaged in the STEPS training.

Kyiv, Ukraine

HealthRight and our partner local partner the Ukrainian Foundation for Public Health (UFPH) run a drop-in center for women and girls, a portion of which are adolescents, that provides outreach services, comprehensive psychosocial and access to medical care for clients that are street-involved, HIV-positive, internally displaced, and/or survivors of violence and their family members. HealthRight also supports a halfway house for disadvantaged pregnant women and new mothers with children that provides residence based rehabilitation services for pregnant women and new mothers in difficult living circumstances caused by homelessness, risky behaviors or HIV, and/or domestic violence. In 2015, 26 women received rehabilitation services at the halfway house.

United States

Unaccompanied migrant children (UMCs) face many challenges navigating the immigration, health, and social service systems in the U.S. alone. Drawing on years of experience through our Human Rights Clinic (HRC), HealthRight is recruiting and training medical and mental health providers who specialize in pediatrics and child development to provide child-friendly and trauma-informed forensic evaluations and needs assessments for UMCs who have fled torture, abuse, and neglect in their home countries.

United States

Each year, thousands of survivors of torture and other severe human rights abuses flee persecution in their home countries, seeking asylum and other protections in the United States. Since 1993, HealthRight’s Human Rights Clinic (HRC) has trained, deployed and supported healthcare workers to provide critical forensic evaluations and case management services to immigrant survivors who have experienced torture, gender-based violence (GBV), LGBT-based persecution, female genital cutting (FGC), and human trafficking. The HRC has provided more than 5,500 forensic evaluations to over 4,800 survivors of torture and abuse from 130 countries.