On the tenth anniversary of the kidnapping of Swedish publisher and writer Gui Minhai, human rights organisations, including ...

Tania Pariona Tarqui is an Indigenous Quechua human rights defender, activist from Peru, and Executive Secretary of the ...

The SOS-Torture Network and the signatory organisations firmly condemn the attack that took place yesterday in ...

Today, the Sumud Flotilla for Freedom, carrying humanitarian aid for Gaza and composed by international human rights ...

The Americas, October 10, 2025. - The following organizations condemn the use of excessive force on the part of the ...

The OMCT welcomes the UN Human Rights Council's unanimous decision to establish an independent investigative mechanism for ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has received new ...

The Observatory (OMCT-FIDH), together with the undersigned human rights organizations, strongly condemn the escalating crackdown by Moroccan ...

THA 003 / 0624 / OBS 020.2 Conviction / Sentencing / Judicial harassment Thailand 30 September 2025 The Observatory for the ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) expresses grave concern over a newly proposed proclamation that, if passed, would significantly restrict the independence, ...

The report establishes that the Russian military in the occupied regions of Ukraine committed crimes that reach the threshold of torture and persecution of a broad political group, qualified as crimes ...

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 ...