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

Despite 175 countries ratifying the UN Convention Against Torture, this grave violation of human rights persists in prisons, public assemblies, armed conflicts, and daily police interventions. Torture ...

The Observatory has been informed of the ongoing harassment of 27 students at Kyambogo University in Kampala, Uganda, including Akiso Benjamin, the Guild President and a social justice and ...

The Observatory has been informed about the ongoing judicial harassment of Mr. Ssuuna James, a cyberactivist and human rights defender, founder and Executive Director of Freedom Hive Uganda, an ...

Resources / Statements / India: The Killing of Jahanur Haque: Impunity Prevails in West Bengal The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM) strongly condemn ...

Under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), no child should ever be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment (Article 37). Yet the ...

Bukavu - Genève, 02 mai 2025 – L’Observatoire pour la protection des défenseur.es des droits humains (OMCT-FIDH) exprime sa vive inquiétude face aux attaques répétées et ciblées contre des ...

L'Observatoire pour la protection des défenseur.es des droits humains, programme conjoint de la FIDH et de l'Organisation mondiale contre la torture (OMCT), sollicite votre intervention urgente dans ...

On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, human rights organisations, including the FIDH and OMCT within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, are warning of ...

À l’occasion de la Journée mondiale de la liberté de la presse, des organisations de défense des droits humains, dont la FIDH et l’OMCT dans le cadre de l’Observatoire pour la Protection des ...

Please accept the warmest greetings from the undersigned human rights organisations. We are writing to express our concern about the recent acts of persecution and criminalisation directed by the ...

ACAT is a human rights non-governmental organisation that was created in 1974. ACAT aims to fight torture, enforced disappearances, and injustice worldwide.