N'Djamena / Geneva, August 18, 2025. The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the Chadian League for Human Rights ...

Based on in-depth interviews, the report documents arbitrary arrests, severe torture, and psychological abuse carried out by the de facto General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI) between 2021 and ...

Accompanying the report, a group of Afghan women artists created a series of paintings depicting the pain and suffering of ...

That is when OMCT decided to intensify its advocacy for the release of arbitrarily detained human rights defenders. On 28 ...

The undersigned organizations condemn the ongoing judicial and security harassment of Mada Masr, one of the last operating ...

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

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

Learn more about our #FacesOfHope campaign Ignacio Celso Lino, Argüello Celso Lino, Donald Andrés Bruno Arcángel and Dionisio ...

Learn more about our #FacesOfHope campaign Pablo López Alavez is an indigenous Zapotec and human rights defender of ...

Over 200 days after his forced transfer from Lebanon to the UAE, Turkish-Egyptian poet Abdulrahman Yusuf remains disappeared.

Al-Sharigy, a Libyan national, was subjected to egregious gender-based violence (GBV) and fell victim like many others to the ...

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