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Egypt: The Third Trial of Hoda Abdelmonem

The undersigned organizations call for the immediate release of lawyer at the Court of Cassation and former member of Egypt’s ...
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Tanzania : Acts of harassment and intimidation against LHRC staffs

URGENT APPEAL - THE OBSERVATORY TZA 002 / 1125 / OBS 074 Harassment / Intimidation / Restriction on freedom of association Tanzania 18 November 2025 ...
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Punishment by Proxy in Egypt: Families of Exiled Journalists, Activists and Human Rights Defenders Held Hostage by the Authorities

The undersigned organizations express their deep concern over the escalating pattern of “punishment by proxy” employed by the ...
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OMCT Urges UN Anti-Torture Committee to Address the Systematic Use of Torture against Palestinians

On 11 and 12 November 2025, the United Nations Committee Against Torture, the primary international body monitoring ...
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Civil Society Under Threat: Two Georgian Human Rights Defenders Speak Up

Georgian civil society and human rights organisations are facing a crackdown, with their voices and spaces being shrunk by the authorities. The ...
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16 Facts About Gender-Based Torture from 21 Countries

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 ...
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Tajikistan: authorities must respect international law in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region

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 ...
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USA: 14-year-old boy sentenced to life in prison

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 ...
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Venezuela: systematic torture as a mechanism of repression

In Venezuela, torture is part of a systematic pattern of state repression against persons arbitrarily detained for political reasons or for their work in the defense of human rights. According to ...
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Guatemala: Dozens of human rights organisations express their solidarity with Ramón Cadena

22 October 2025 – The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OMCT-FIDH) and other human rights organisations and associations in solidarity with Ramón Cadena, lawyer and human ...
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Venezuela: Arbitrary Detention of Students Noel Cisneros, Katiuska Castillo Vásquez, Ingrid Briceño Venegas and Marcela Hernández Guerra

Social media pictures of: Noel Cisneros, Katiuska Castillo Vásquez, Ingrid Briceño Venegas y Marcela Hernández Guerra Resources / Statements / Venezuela: Arbitrary Detention of Students Noel Cisneros, ...
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Global Torture Index

The Global Torture Index is a unique, data-driven tool designed to annually assess the risk of torture and other ill-treatment worldwide. It evaluates national laws, policies, and practices in line ...