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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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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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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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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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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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Growing Impunity in Peru: Interview with a Peruvian Human Rights Defender

Tania Pariona Tarqui is an Indigenous Quechua human rights defender, activist from Peru, and Executive Secretary of the coalition Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDDHH). As she started ...
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Morocco: End the crackdown on peaceful protests and uphold the right to demands social justice

The Observatory (OMCT-FIDH), together with the undersigned human rights organizations, strongly condemn the escalating crackdown by Moroccan authorities on peaceful protests, including minors and ...
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OMCT concerned about pre-trial detention against human rights defenders, children

The World Organisation against Torture welcomes this dialogue and shares the Group’s concern over the use of pretrial detention. Our Global Torture Index shows that nearly half of all countries fail ...
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Mahsa Jina Amini's Legacy and the Women the Islamic Republic of Iran Fears Most

Three years after Mahsa Jina Amini’s death in police custody, Iranian women keep pushing back against state control, even as the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) detains more women’s rights defenders ...
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Philippines: Baguio Breaks Ground on Human Rights Defenders’ Protection – National Law Must Follow

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 ...
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Presentation of the candidates to the Committee Against Torture (CAT) - 2025 Elections

Elections to the UN Committee against Torture (CAT) will take place on 1 October 2025. Five seats are available, and 10 candidates – as of 27 August 2025 –, 6 men and 4 women, have been nominated by ...
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Complaint to UN Challenges Libya on Gender-Based Violence

Geneva – Tunis, 05 August 2025 – The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), in collaboration with its legal partners Swiss law firm Peter & Moreau, submitted a complaint to the United Nations ...