The undersigned organizations call for the immediate release of lawyer at the Court of Cassation and former member of Egypt’s ...

The undersigned organizations express their deep concern over the escalating pattern of “punishment by proxy” employed by the ...

The Observatory has been informed about the arbitrary detention of Ms Keta Tsitskishvili and Mr Vakho Sanaia, two journalists ...

Georgian civil society and human rights organisations are facing a crackdown, with their voices and spaces being shrunk by the authorities. 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 ...

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

The International Secretariat of OMCT requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Florida, United States of America. Brief description of the situation The International ...

UKR 001 / 1125 / OBS 066 Judicial harassment Smear campaign Ukraine 3 November 2025 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, ...

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 ...

The enforcement of Covid-19 related restrictions has dangerously increased police violence worldwide, according to a new briefing report published today by the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT ...

The OMCT and the Vietnamese Advocates for Change (VAC) have submitted a joint report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee ahead of its review of Viet Nam’s compliance with the International ...

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 ...