We, the undersigned organisations, including the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT), call ...
L’ACAT Luxembourg est une organisation non-gouvernementale qui intervient dans des cas de violations de droits humains et pour garantir le respect des victimes de tortures comme les détenus, les ...
The Observatory has been informed of the acts of harassment and intimidation against a team of staff from the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC). LHRC is an advocacy focused organisation, working to ...
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 ...
The undersigned organizations call for the immediate release of lawyer at the Court of Cassation and former member of Egypt’s ...
Le Comité des Nations Unies contre la torture contrôle la mise en œuvre des obligations des États parties à la Convention contre la torture et autres peines ou traitements cruels, inhumains ou ...
The undersigned organizations express their deep concern over the escalating pattern of “punishment by proxy” employed by the ...
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 ...
On 11 and 12 November 2025, the United Nations Committee Against Torture, the primary international body monitoring ...
The International Secretariat of OMCT has been informed by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), a member of the OMCT network, of the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl (name withheld), resident of ...
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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 ...