In 2024, severe human rights crises impacted multiple regions. In Ukraine, the ongoing conflict led to violence against civilians, including torture and arbitrary detention. In Bangladesh, a brutal ...
The Observatory has been informed about the arbitrary arrest and detention of Mr Rufat Safarov, a prominent human rights defender and founder of the organisation Defence Line, dedicated to the ...
This interview is part of the United Against Torture Consortium’s Voices for Human Dignity multimedia initiative. This initiative celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Convention against Torture ...
Nicaraguans, as a result of the recent reforms to the Constitution, have been left without rights, being eliminated from its text the recognition of treaties and conventions on human rights, the ...
The OMCT works with around 200 member organisations which constitute its SOS-Torture Network, to end torture, fight impunity and protect human rights defenders worldwide. Together, we make up the ...
Resources / Reports / Zimbabwe’s Civic Space in Crisis: New Report Details Growing Operational Obstacles and Legal Threats to Civil Society The ouster of President Robert Mugabe in 2017 in Zimbabwe ...
The OMCT works with around 200 member organisations which constitute its SOS-Torture Network, to end torture, fight impunity and protect human rights defenders worldwide. Together, we make up the ...
The unprecedented police brutality against peaceful protesters in the cities of Tbilisi and Batumi must be stopped. The international community must react urgently to address the escalating human ...
This interview is part of the United Against Torture Consortium’s Voices for Human Dignity multimedia initiative. This initiative celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Convention against Torture ...
(Dakar, Geneve, Nairobi, Paris, December 9, 2024) – Niger’s military authorities should immediately drop all charges and release a prominent civil society activist and critic of the government, as he ...
15 December 2024: On the 12-year anniversary of the unresolved enforced disappearance of Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone, we, the undersigned civil society organizations and individuals ...
À l'occasion de la Journée internationale pour l'abolition de l'esclavage, – L’Organisation Mondiale Contre la Torture (OMCT) et le Mouvement pour la Sauvegarde des Droits Humains (MSDH) expriment ...