URGENT APPEAL - THE OBSERVATORY TZA 002 / 1125 / OBS 074 Harassment / Intimidation / Restriction on freedom of association Tanzania 18 November 2025 ...

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 ...

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… ...

The undersigned organizations express their deep concern over the escalating pattern of “punishment by proxy” employed by the ...

Georgian civil society and human rights organisations are facing a crackdown, with their voices and spaces being shrunk by the authorities. The ...

The Observatory has been informed about the arbitrary detention of Ms Keta Tsitskishvili and Mr Vakho Sanaia, two journalists ...

The Observatory (OMCT-FIDH), together with the undersigned human rights organizations, strongly condemn the escalating crackdown by Moroccan authorities on peaceful protests, including minors and ...

Resources / Statements / Georgia: “Foreign Agents” Laws Threaten Civil Society and Breach Human Rights Commitments, Joint UPR Submission Warns A coalition of human rights organisations — the ...

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 World Organisation against Torture (OMCT), together with the Civil Society and Human Rights Network (CSHRN) and Human Rights Defenders Plus (HRD+), releases a new report, “Every Hour Felt as Long ...

Geneva, 14 April 2025 - Myanmar’s Tharyarwaddy prison stands as a stark symbol of state-sponsored abuse, where political detainees endure torture, medical neglect, and forced labor under ...