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N'Djamena / Geneva, August 18, 2025. The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the Chadian League for Human Rights ...
Accompanying the report, a group of Afghan women artists created a series of paintings depicting the pain and suffering of ...
The undersigned organizations condemn the ongoing judicial and security harassment of Mada Masr, one of the last operating ...
Internationally, a pattern of criminalisation and arbitrary detention against indigenous human rights defenders (HRDs) has ...
We, the undersigned civil society organisations, are deeply concerned about the ongoing systematic repression of Pamiri ...
Al-Sharigy, a Libyan national, was subjected to egregious gender-based violence (GBV) and fell victim like many others to the ...
Over 200 days after his forced transfer from Lebanon to the UAE, Turkish-Egyptian poet Abdulrahman Yusuf remains disappeared.
July 2025 The United Against Torture Consortium (UATC) strongly welcomes today’s action by the European Union significantly ...
The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) has been informed of the conviction and sentencing of Gregory Vallianatos , co-founder of its Network ...
The International Secretariat of OMCT has been informed by the Association Africaine de Défense des Droits de l’Homme (ASADHO) and the Comité des Observateurs des Droits de l’Homme, (CODHO), both ...
The World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) and its network members are concerned about the resurgence of serious human rights violations in the DRC. Despite the satisfactory organisation of ...
News release Geneva – Brussels, 2 February 2023 One year after the bloody crackdown on protesters in Kazakhstan in January 2022, impunity for perpetrators… ...