[4] The Primo Levi care center is an Association loi de 1901 created in May 1995 by five militant associations in the field of human rights, health and justice: Action des Christians pour l'Abolition de la Torture, Amnesty International of France, Juristes sans frontières, Médecins du Monde an Trèves.
Torture, far from "making people speak", silenced them,[7] reached them in their privacy, in their capacity to think, to forge links with other human beings, to have a place in a group, in their couple, their family, their home community.
It is therefore a member of several groups intervening in the fields of asylum law and health: French coordination of asylum law (CFDA),[11] Observatory of the right to health of foreigners (ODSE),[12] European network of care centers for victims of torture, Collective for the defense of human rights in Turkey, French-speaking network for the care and support of exiled victims of torture and political violence (RESEDA).
[13] In the between-rounds of the 2017 presidential election between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron, the Primo Levi Center implicitly called in a forum with sixty other associations to block the FN candidate.
[15] The support committee of the center is composed of: Patrick Aeberhard, Jacques Attali, Miguel Benasayag, Paul Bouchet, Laurent Gaudé, Constantin Costa-Gavras, Robert Guédiguian, Louis Joinet, François Julien-Laferrière, Jean Lacouture, Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison, Anicet Le Pors, Ariane Mnouchkine, Edgar Morin, Rithy Panh, Serge Portelli, Nicole Questiaux, Michel Rocard, Léonie Simaga, Catherine Teitgen-Colly, Tzvetan Todorov, Annette Wieviorka.