In Cajamarca, Peru, communities confront a challenging reality characterised by socio-environmental conflicts, the defence of ...

Niger’s authorities should immediately release civil society activist and human rights defender Moussa Tchangari and stop ...

The World Organisation Against Torture works with 200 member organisations to end torture and ill-treatment, assist victims, and protect human rights… ...

The United Against Torture Consortium (UATC), with our national members, call the Government of Georgia to end violence against peaceful protesters, promptly and impartially investigate all credible ...

The re-election of long-standing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in early January took place in a context of gross human rights violations that continue to occur across the country with almost complete ...

We the undersigned groups and organisations, including FIDH and OMCT in the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, would like to express our grave concern and raise ...

Turkey has been employing counter-terrorism and national security legislation to restrict rights and freedoms and silence the voices of human rights defenders, the World Organisation Against Torture ...

Resources / Reports / Iran: OMCT brief highlights systematic use of internal exile to suppress human rights defenders and minorities The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) has released a new ...

Geneva-Paris, March 22, 2022 - The Zimbabwean Parliament is discussing an amendment of the Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO) Act that seriously threatens the right to freedom of association in the ...

With 70% of detention centres overcrowded, the Philippines is one of the countries in the world hardest hit by prison overpopulation. The Marcos Jr administration has promised to tackle the problem ...

The film “Total Trust” highlights the lives of Chinese human rights defenders Wang Quanzhang and Weiping Chan and journalist Sophia Huang Xueqin as they confront state surveillance technologies that ...