The undersigned organizations call for the immediate release of lawyer at the Court of Cassation and former member of Egypt’s ...

The undersigned organizations express their deep concern over the escalating pattern of “punishment by proxy” employed by the ...

Update on this article: the Global Torture Index mentioned here is now publicly available as of June 2025. You can explore the platform at this link. Over the past three decades, significant strides ...

Brussels-Oslo-Stockholm, 24 May 2022 – As authorities in Tajikistan continue their violent crackdown on protestors in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), human rights organisations urge ...

The International Secretariat of OMCT requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Florida, United States of America. Brief description of the situation The International ...

Georgian civil society and human rights organisations are facing a crackdown, with their voices and spaces being shrunk by the authorities. The ...

We the undersigned groups and organisations, including FIDH and OMCT in the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, would like to express our grave concern and raise ...

Resources / Statements / Philippines: Baguio Breaks Ground on Human Rights Defenders’ Protection – National Law Must Follow The Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA) together with the ...

The enforcement of Covid-19 related restrictions has dangerously increased police violence worldwide, according to a new briefing report published today by the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT ...

Armel Niyongere, exiled Burundian lawyer and Secretary General of SOS-Torture Burundi, a member of the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) SOS-Torture network, continues to denounce human rights ...

The use of torture by the Egyptian government as a tool for repressing political dissent has a long history, leading to two inquiries by the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) in 1996 and 2017. In ...

Turkey has been employing counter-terrorism and national security legislation to restrict rights and freedoms and silence the voices of human rights defenders, the World Organisation Against Torture ...