Internationally, a pattern of criminalisation and arbitrary detention against indigenous human rights defenders (HRDs) has ...

The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) has been informed of the conviction and sentencing of Gregory Vallianatos , ...

We, the undersigned civil society organisations, are deeply concerned about the ongoing systematic repression of Pamiri ...

July 29, 2025 H.M. King Mohammed VI Rabat, Morocco Your Majesty, We are writing to request that the government of Morocco ...

URGENT APPEAL - THE OBSERVATORY KEN 002 / 0725 / OBS 045 Arbitrary detention / Release / Judicial harassment / Restriction to ...

These laws impose excessive registration and reporting obligations, require public labelling of organisations as “foreign agents”, and introduce administrative and criminal penalties. They also ...

In the days that followed the attack, the Iranian authorities undertook mass prisoner transfers, relocating surviving inmates—many of whom, human rights defenders, journalists, and activists—to other ...

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, together ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT), along with the undersigned organisations, urge the European Union (EU) to put forward the ongoing human rights crisis in China ...

The OMCT condemns the US decision to place the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Francesca Albanese, on its sanctions list. Sanctioning a UN Special ...

Last April, the United Nations Committee Against Torture reviewed Ukraine’s state on torture. The Committee especially examined the conditions seen in detention facilities, the increase in deaths in ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) expresses deep concern over the case of Mr Nelson Amenya, a Kenyan whistleblower who has courageously spoken out against ...