I introduce the Comprehensive Torture Victims Relief Act of 1995. I am joined today by Senators SPECTOR. HATFIELD. JEFFORDS. HARKIN. MOYNIHAN. and KENNEDY. as original cosponsors of this measure. This bipartisan legislation outlines a comprehensive strategy for providing critical assistance to refugees. asylees. and paxolees who are torture survivors in the United States and abroad. It is an important blueprint for an overall approach to the serious problem of torture. This legislation provides a focus and a framework for a newly reenergized debate about where torture survirors. and our response to the practice of torture by other countries. fit within our foreign policy priorities.
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