Digital violence against women and girls in Libya is no longer a fringe issue; it is a systemic, escalating threat that ...

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

The World Organisation Against Torture works with 200 member organisations to end torture and ill-treatment, assist victims, and protect human rights… ...

Women are particularly vulnerable when in prison because of their gender. They face specific forms of gender-based violence, including rape and other forms of sexual violence, touching, being stripped ...

Brussels-Oslo-Stockholm, 24 May 2022 – As authorities in Tajikistan continue their violent crackdown on protestors in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), human rights organisations urge ...

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 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 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 ...

The past year has seen a further erosion of the absolute prohibition of torture, the foundation of the international human rights order. The United Against Torture Consortium (UATC) recalls that ...

We the undersigned groups and organisations, including FIDH and OMCT in the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, would like to express our grave concern and raise ...