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

This interview is part of the United Against Torture Consortium’s Voices for Human Dignity multimedia initiative. This initiative celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Convention against Torture ...

On Jan. 5, 2026, the Indian Supreme Court denied bail to human rights defender and student activist Umar Khalid, who has been detained for over five years without trial, in violation of India’s ...

On the 11th of December 2025, the People’s Tribunal for Women in Afghanistan issued an historic judgement on the gender persecution in Afghanistan, followings hearings that were held earlier in the ...

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 ...

Each year on 10 October, the world marks the International Day against the Death Penalty. Although there is a clear trend towards abolition, with five international instruments prohibiting its use and ...

Damj - l'association Tunisienne Pour la justice et l'égalité is a Tunisian human rights organization founded in 2002 and legally recognized in 2011. It works to promote and protect the rights of ...

The 2019 CSO Law: winds of change for human rights defenders in Ethiopia? Geneva-Paris-Brussels, April 17, 2019. After ten dark years, a process of socio-political transformation, sparked by last year ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a jointpartnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, requestsyour urgent intervention in the following situation ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your ...

Geneva (OMCT) – A new report, published today, documents 122 killings of children, from 1 to 17 years old, throughout the Philippines, between July 2016 and December 2019. The report, titled “How ...

Dix organisations de la société civile burundaise, sous la coordination de SOS-Torture Burundi et avec le soutien de la Fédération internationale des ACAT (FIACAT), de l’Organisation mondiale contre ...