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

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

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

On 11 and 12 November 2025, the United Nations Committee Against Torture, the primary international body monitoring ...

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

Update on this article: the Global Torture Index mentioned here is now publicly available as of June 2025. You can explore the platform at this link. Over the past three decades, significant strides ...

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

The International Secretariat of OMCT requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Florida, United States of America. Brief description of the situation The International ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...