The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) has published a legal brief examining Sri Lanka’s proposed Protection of the ...
We, the undersigned organizations, condemn in the strongest terms the conviction of Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of the ...
New information   IND 001 / 0426 / OBS 020.1 Threats  Surveillance  Risk of arbitrary arrest  Judicial harrasment /  India  ...
How can civil society organisations be silenced when they represent an inconvenient counterbalance to power? Legislation ...
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo,   Constitutional President of the United Mexican States  We, the undersigned, are aware of ...
The OMCT works with around 200 member organisations which constitute its SOS-Torture Network, to end torture, fight impunity and protect human rights defenders worldwide. Together, we make up the ...
Navi Pillay, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and recipient of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. UN Photo/Jean Marc Ferré The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) warmly ...
On the World Day Against the Death Penalty, whose 2026 theme is “Stories for Life”, we spoke to anthropologist and photographer Mosfiqur Rahman Johan, who has spent four years documenting the people ...
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), within ...
The World Organisation against Torture (OMCT), together with 99 other civil society organisations are calling on UN Human Rights Council (HRC) Member States to fully renew the mandate of the Special ...
Paris-Geneva, 4 June 2026 - Belarus is facing a profound and systemic human rights crisis in the labour sector, marked by the dismantling of independent trade unions, the imprisonment of trade union ...
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), under the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, express ...