On the 11th of December 2025, the People’s Tribunal for Women in Afghanistan issued an historic judgement on the gender ...

As today marks International Human Rights Defenders Day, this interview with Mary Lawlor, United Nations Special Rapporteur ...

Statement The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) expresses its profound alarm at the Tanzanian authorities’ decision ...

On 29 September 2025, Vladimir Putin signed a law withdrawing Russia from the European Convention for the Prevention of ...

The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), in partnership with the International Lawyers Network (ILN), has submitted a ...

Thailand must refuse to allow its criminal courts to be used for SLAPP actions by anyone, even fellow ASEAN member States We, ...

The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), together with the Foundation for Society and Legal Studies (TOHAV), has ...

Joint statement by international and regional human rights experts in the context of the continued arbitrary and prolonged ...

The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) today released a briefing note revealing how the Belarusian regime has ...

Paris–Geneva, 2 December 2025 – The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) strongly condemns ...

In Belarus today, torture no longer hides behind closed doors. A new OMCT briefing exposes how this system functions, who it targets and why the ...

We, the undersigned human rights organisations and legal representatives of Vietnamese human rights defender Y Quynh Bdap, express our deepest ...