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

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 ...

Internationally, a pattern of criminalisation and arbitrary detention against indigenous human rights defenders (HRDs) has been recognised in Mexico. The case of Pablo López Alavez, a Zapotec ...

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 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.

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 ...

We, the undersigned civil society organisations, are deeply concerned about the ongoing systematic repression of Pamiri Indigenous Peoples in Tajikistan. This repression has intensified since 2022 ...

The United Against Torture Consortium (UATC) strongly welcomes today’s action by the European Union significantly strengthening its region wide measures preventing the transfer of law enforcement ...

KEN 002 / 0725 / OBS 045 Arbitrary detention / Release / Judicial harassment / Restriction to freedom of assembly Kenya 31 July 2025 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a ...

We are writing to request that the government of Morocco immediately release human rights defender Nasser Zefzafi on humanitarian grounds so he can care for his elderly father, who was recently ...