We thank the High Commissioner for his oral update on Georgia, and wish to add our recent findings on the dismantling of civil society by Georgian authorities based on a field mission conducted in ...

UPR Outcome of Libya The World Organisation Against Torture & The Libyan Anti-Torture Network Mr. President, The ...

This practice constitutes a grave human rights violation and may amount to torture due to the suffering inflicted on both the ...

Resources / Reports / Venezuela: The Observatory (OMCT-FIDH) report denounces systematic repression of human rights defenders The report details the number of attacks against defenders between 2022 ...

March 2026 As journalist and human rights defender Irfan Mehraj marks three years in arbitrary detention tomorrow, we the ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

We the undersigned groups and organisations, including FIDH and OMCT in the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, would like to express our grave concern and raise ...

Belarus: Arbitrary detention of Leanid Sudalenka, lawyer of the Homieĺ (Gomel) branch of Viasna, and Maria Tarasenka, Viasna’s volunteer Belarus: Arbitrary detention of Leanid Sudalenka, lawyer of the ...

The International Secretariat of OMCT has been informed by the Public Committee against Torture in Israel (PCATI), a member of the OMCT network, and by another reliable source that Palestinian ...