Joint OMCT–FIDH investigation reveals how Georgia’s ruling party has built a system of repression against civil society, with ...

We, the undersigned organisations, including the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT), call ...

The Observatory has been informed of the acts of harassment and intimidation against a team of staff from the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC). LHRC is an advocacy focused organisation, working to ...

The undersigned organizations call for the immediate release of lawyer at the Court of Cassation and former member of Egypt’s ...

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 ...

Since the crisis of 2015, Burundi has seen systematic repression of journalists and members of civil society, who are the main targets of intimidation, arbitrary arrests, physical violence and threats ...

The World Organisation against Torture welcomes this dialogue and shares the Group’s concern over the use of pretrial detention. Our Global Torture Index shows that nearly half of all countries fail ...

Three years after Mahsa Jina Amini’s death in police custody, Iranian women keep pushing back against state control, even as the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) detains more women’s rights defenders ...

Resources / Statements / Philippines: Baguio Breaks Ground on Human Rights Defenders’ Protection – National Law Must Follow The Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA) together with the ...

The Observatory (OMCT-FIDH), and the other signatories strongly condemn the unprecedented weaponization of Egyptian diplomatic missions as tools of transnational repression against peaceful protesters ...

Elections to the UN Committee against Torture (CAT) will take place on 1 October 2025. Five seats are available, and 10 candidates – as of 27 August 2025 –, 6 men and 4 women, have been nominated by ...

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 ...