N'Djamena / Geneva, August 18, 2025. The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the Chadian League for Human Rights ...

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

That is when OMCT decided to intensify its advocacy for the release of arbitrarily detained human rights defenders. On 28 ...

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

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 ...

Learn more about our #FacesOfHope campaign Pablo López Alavez is an indigenous Zapotec and human rights defender of ...

Learn more about our #FacesOfHope campaign Ignacio Celso Lino, Argüello Celso Lino, Donald Andrés Bruno Arcángel and Dionisio ...

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 ...

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… ...