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10 Successes of the Global Anti-Torture Movement in 2024
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 ...
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Consultancy - National Coordinator – United Against Torture Consortium’s crisis facility on Bangladesh
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 ...
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Azerbaijan: Arbitrary detention and judicial harassment against Rufat Safarov
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 ...
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Zimbabwe’s Civic Space in Crisis: New Report Details Growing Operational Obstacles and Legal Threats to Civil Society
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 ...
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La tortura y el derecho
Como la tortura y otras formas de maltrato figuran entre las peores violaciones de la integridad y la dignidad del ser humano, la prohibición de la tortura se incluye entre varias prohibiciones que ...
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Laos: States should ask “Where is Sombath?” at upcoming review of human rights record
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 ...
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Cameroun : Suspension arbitraire du REDHAC
Le ministre de l’Administration Territoriale du Cameroun a pris un arrêté le 6 décembre 2024 suspendant le Réseau des Défenseurs des Droits Humains en Afrique Centrale (REDHAC), un partenaire clé de ...
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Human Rights Officer for Afghanistan (80-100%)
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 ...
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Venezuela: 20 presos políticos han muerto tras las rejas
Humberto Prado, soy director de la ONG Observatorio Venezolano de Prisiones. Agradezco a la OMCT por esta oportunidad. Venezuela vive una grave crisis general de derechos humanos que se acrecienta en ...
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Niger: Prominent Civil Society Activist Arbitrarily Arrested
(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 ...
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Niger : Un éminent leader de la société civile arrêté arbitrairement
(Paris, Genève, 9 décembre 2024) – Les autorités militaires du Niger devraient immédiatement libérer un éminent militant de la société civile et détracteur du gouvernement détenu uniquement pour avoir ...
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Tchad : les victimes du « jeudi noir » saisissent la justice
Plus de deux ans après les événements tragiques du 20 octobre 2022, appelé « jeudi noir », dix victimes viennent de déposer une plainte auprès des tribunaux de N’Djamena avec le soutien de la Ligue ...