The World Organisation Against Torture Office in Brussels is seeking to recruit an intern for its Development Team to provide increased capacity for researching new funding opportunities, supporting ...

KEN 001 / 0725 / OBS 040 Deportation Kenya 9 July, 2025 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a ...

Guatemala: The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OMCT-FIDH) and other human rights organisations and ...

Guinean authorities must urgently reveal the fate and whereabouts of National Front for the Defence of the Constitution ...

Ten years after the Chinese government’s widespread crackdown on human rights lawyers, concerned governments and the United ...

On the occasion of 26 June, the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture- which symbolizes the global commitment to ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) expresses grave concern over a newly proposed ...

The OMCT and the Vietnamese Advocates for Change (VAC) have submitted a joint report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee ahead of its review of Viet Nam’s compliance with the International ...

The absolute prohibition of torture and other ill-treatment extends beyond places of deprivation of liberty; it also applies in extra-custodial ...

The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the Independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU) warn the Kenyan authorities against initiating a new cycle of state-sponsored torture and abuse amid the ...

Armel Niyongere, exiled Burundian lawyer and Secretary General of SOS-Torture Burundi, a member of the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) SOS-Torture network, continues to denounce human rights ...

The Observatory has been informed about the imminent trial, ongoing arbitrary detention and ill-treatment of citizen journalist and human rights defender Zhang Zhan. Initially targeted by Chinese ...