The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) has been informed of the conviction and sentencing of Gregory Vallianatos , ...

Internationally, a pattern of criminalisation and arbitrary detention against indigenous human rights defenders (HRDs) has ...

Al-Sharigy, a Libyan national, was subjected to egregious gender-based violence (GBV) and fell victim like many others to the ...

Over 200 days after his forced transfer from Lebanon to the UAE, Turkish-Egyptian poet Abdulrahman Yusuf remains disappeared.

We, the undersigned civil society organisations, are deeply concerned about the ongoing systematic repression of Pamiri ...

July 29, 2025 H.M. King Mohammed VI Rabat, Morocco Your Majesty, We are writing to request that the government of Morocco ...

July 2025 The United Against Torture Consortium (UATC) strongly welcomes today’s action by the European Union significantly ...

URGENT APPEAL - THE OBSERVATORY KEN 002 / 0725 / OBS 045 Arbitrary detention / Release / Judicial harassment / Restriction to ...

In the days that followed the attack, the Iranian authorities undertook mass prisoner transfers, relocating surviving inmates—many of whom, human rights defenders, journalists, and activists—to other ...

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 ...

These laws impose excessive registration and reporting obligations, require public labelling of organisations as “foreign agents”, and introduce administrative and criminal penalties. They also ...

Geneva, 16 July 2025 – The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) condemns the recent adoption of the Amnesty Law and urges the Peruvian State to adhere to international human rights standards to ...