The World Organisation against Torture (OMCT) and the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) express ...

Geneva-Paris, 19 December 2025 - At the end of November 2025, unidentified individuals and state authorities physically ...

More than 50 people were arrested, including five women human rights defenders, while they were taking part in a ...

Across every region, human rights defenders (HRDs) continue to be arbitrarily detained for their work, sometimes for days, ...

TUR 001 / 1225 / OBS 080 Arbitrary dissolution / Obstacle to freedom of association / Judicial harassment Turkey 19 December ...

Under the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules ), it is defined as the confinement of ...

The World Organisation against Torture (OMCT) and our network members, the Ethiopian human rights council (EHRCO) and the Association for human rights in Ethiopia (AHRE), have submitted an alternative ...

Resources / Statements / China: Chinese government impunity for crackdown on lawyers fuels decade of repression (July 7, 2025) Ten years after the Chinese government’s widespread crackdown on human ...

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

The re-election of long-standing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in early January took place in a context of gross human rights violations that continue to occur across the country with almost complete ...

Resources / Urgent interventions / Casualties on the rise in President Duterte’s war on human rights defenders, new report says Geneva-Paris,February 28, 2 019 - Human rights defenders in ...

Turkey has been employing counter-terrorism and national security legislation to restrict rights and freedoms and silence the voices of human rights defenders, the World Organisation Against Torture ...