July 2026 - The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OMCT-FIDH) and the undersigned organisations ...

Resources / Reports / Same-Same But Different: Repression of human rights defenders in the Philippines under President Marcos Jr. Share A new report by the Observatory for the Protection of Human ...

The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), Legal Advisory Office for Popular Organisations (GAJOP), the Centre for the Defence of Children and Adolescents (CEDECA Ceará) and the Coalition for ...

Claudine Aicha Tsoumbo, Gabonese human rights activist and president of the Association Réconciliation, sitting in the 84th session of the UN CAT, Geneva. Claudine Aicha Tsoumbo is a Gabonese human ...

In recent years, the right to protest, a universally recognised fundamental human right, has way too often been met with violence and repression. Police forces around the world have been abusing ...

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), under the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, express ...

Three years after Ethiopia’s review by the United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) in May 2023, serious concerns remain regarding the prevention of torture and ill-treatment across the country.

BANGKOK, Thailand (14 May 2026) – We, the undersigned civil society organizations, including the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OMCT-FIDH), strongly condemn the Thai ...

Geneve-Paris, 12 May 2026 . The undersigned human rights organisations, including the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership between the World Organisation Against ...

The Observatory has been informed by Adalah (The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel) of the abduction, arbitrary detention and acts of ill-treatment against Thiago Ávila e Silva Oliveira ...

We, the undersigned human rights organisations, write to bring to your urgent attention the forced return of journalist Afgan Sadigov to Azerbaijan and the broader pattern of transnational repression ...

Dear High Representative / Vice-President Kallas, Dear Foreign Ministers of the EU member states, We, the undersigned humanitarian and human rights organisations and trade unions, write to you as ...