A coalition of human rights organisations — the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the World Organisation ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) expresses deep concern over the case of Mr Nelson ...

URGENT APPEAL - THE OBSERVATORY New information THA 002 / 1025 / OBS 038.8 Sentencing / Arbitrary detention / Judicial ...

The OMCT condemns the US decision to place the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, ...

The World Organisation Against Torture Office in Brussels is seeking to recruit an intern for its Development Team to provide increased capacity for researching new funding opportunities, supporting ...

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 ...

Based on in-depth interviews, the report documents arbitrary arrests, severe torture, and psychological abuse carried out by the de facto General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI) between 2021 and ...

In Venezuela, torture is part of a systematic pattern of state repression against persons arbitrarily detained for political reasons or for their work in the defense of human rights. According to ...

The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the Independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU) warn the Kenyan authorities against initiating a new cycle of state-sponsored torture and abuse amid the ...

TZA 001 / 0625 / OBS 037 Enforced disappearance / Arbitrary detention / Release Torture and ill-treatment / Obstacles to freedom of circulation Tanzania 20 June 2025 The Observatory for the Protection ...

New Publication: Roadmap and methodology for the investigation of crimes against humanity committed by Russian forces in Ukraine in the context of the… ...