The Philippine Alliance for Human Rights Advocates is a non-profit alliance of individuals, institutions, and organisations committed to the promotion, protection, and realization of human rights. It ...

Three years after Ethiopia’s review by the United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) in May 2023, serious ...

URGENT APPEAL - THE OBSERVATORY ISR 001 / 0526 / OBS 022  Arbitrary detention  Abduction / Ill-treatment and torture / ...

without parole at the age of 15. She was indicted as an adult and convicted under Florida law for the felony murder of Richard Phillips, a cab driver. On November 19th 1997, Rebecca had gone out in ...

We, the undersigned civil society organizations, including the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OMCT ...

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

The SOS-Torture Network is at the heart of the OMCT and is the currently the most important global network striving to put an end to torture and protect human rights defenders. At the outset, in 1985, ...

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

Resources / Statements / Civil Society Joint Statement: “Criminal Procedure Code for Courts” will further deepen the human rights crisis in Afghanistan We, the undersigned Afghan and international ...

This report highlights the scale of the human rights violations experienced by people on the move in Tunisia between May and ...

Torture is the intentional destruction of a human being by another. The methods by which severe pain and suffering are inflicted vary, but they all have the same objective: to break a person, erase ...

The Global Torture Index is a unique, data-driven tool designed to annually assess the risk of torture and other ill-treatment worldwide. It evaluates national laws, policies, and practices in line ...