Geneva-Paris, 19 December 2025 - At the end of November 2025, unidentified individuals and state authorities physically ...

The World Organisation against Torture (OMCT) and the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) express ...

Under the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules ), it is defined as the confinement of ...

The World Organisation against Torture (OMCT) and our network members, the Ethiopian human rights council (EHRCO) and the Association for human rights in Ethiopia (AHRE), have submitted an alternative ...

Resources / Statements / China: Chinese government impunity for crackdown on lawyers fuels decade of repression (July 7, 2025) Ten years after the Chinese government’s widespread crackdown on human ...

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

Israel’s Supreme Court has recently clarified, this time explicitly, that interrogational torture is lawful in certain circumstances in Israel’s legal system. The clarification came in seemingly ...

More than 50 people were arrested, including five women human rights defenders, while they were taking part in a ...

TUR 001 / 1225 / OBS 080 Arbitrary dissolution / Obstacle to freedom of association / Judicial harassment Turkey 19 December ...

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 ...

Turkey has been employing counter-terrorism and national security legislation to restrict rights and freedoms and silence the voices of human rights defenders, the World Organisation Against Torture ...

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, ...