The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and Human Rights Law Chambers welcome the landmark decision delivered by the ...

The Yemeni Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (MoSAL) has escalated its repression of civil society organizations that work ...

Americas In November 2025, Colombia ratified the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture (OPCAT), after 23 ...

December 2025 . On the 13-year anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone , we, ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...