Accompanying the report, a group of Afghan women artists created a series of paintings depicting the pain and suffering of ...

The undersigned organizations condemn the ongoing judicial and security harassment of Mada Masr, one of the last operating ...

Based on in-depth interviews, the report documents arbitrary arrests, severe torture, and psychological abuse carried out by the de facto General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI) between 2021 and ...

The undersigned organizations are extremely concerned over the continued enforced disappearance of Turkish-Egyptian poet and political dissident Abdulrahman Yusuf Al-Qaradawi for more than 200 days.

Ms. Al-Sharigy, a Libyan national, was subjected to egregious gender-based violence (GBV) and fell victim like many others to the systemic failures of State protection. The submitted complaint seeks ...

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

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

The International Secretariat of OMCT has been informed by the Association Africaine de Défense des Droits de l’Homme (ASADHO) and the Comité des Observateurs des Droits de l’Homme, (CODHO), both ...

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

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

Geneva (OMCT) – A new report, published today, documents 122 killings of children, from 1 to 17 years old, throughout the Philippines, between July 2016 and December 2019. The report, titled “How ...

Geneva – Brussels, 15 July, 2022 – Increased incarceration rates over recent years have exacerbated already substandard conditions of detention in Turkey, the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) ...