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Ethiopia: Torture has worsened with the return of war

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 ...
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China: Chinese government impunity for crackdown on lawyers fuels decade of repression

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 ...
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Bangladesh: Violence and Shrinking Civic Space Threaten Democratic Transition

The World Organisation against Torture (OMCT) and the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) express ...
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Putting Solitary Confinement in the Spotlight: New international initiatives to map, monitor and end its use

Under the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules ), it is defined as the confinement of ...
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Kazakhstan: Physical attacks and judicial harassment of LGBTQIA+ defenders Temirlan Baimash, Ardzh Tursynkhan, and Zhanar Sekerbayeva

Geneva-Paris, 19 December 2025 - At the end of November 2025, unidentified individuals and state authorities physically ...
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Turkey: Arbitrary dissolution of the Young LGBTI+ Association

TUR 001 / 1225 / OBS 080 Arbitrary dissolution / Obstacle to freedom of association / Judicial harassment Turkey 19 December ...
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Iran: Narges Mohammadi, several other human rights defenders arbitrarily arrested in massive crackdown

More than 50 people were arrested, including five women human rights defenders, while they were taking part in a ...
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Latin America: New report reveals systematic torture against Indigenous Peoples

Geneva - Buenos Aires - Bogotá - Guatemala City - Mexico City - La Paz - Managua - Santiago de Chile, 28 March, 2022-Every day indigenous peoples in Latin America are subjected to different forms of ...
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Répression de la Gen Z au Togo : 48 activistes doivent être libéré.es de toute urgence

Lomé-Genève, 22 octobre 2025 : Depuis le 5 juin 2025, au moins 133 jeunes activistes togolais.es s'étant exprimé.es ou réuni.es pacifiquement pour porter des revendications citoyennes ont été ...
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Singapore: Judicial harassment of three activists over organisation of a pro-Palestinian peaceful protest

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your ...
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Ecuador: Excessive use of force during demonstrations

Geneva, 29 September 2025 – The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) expresses its deep concern about the excessive and disproportionate use of force by Ecuadorian authorities amidst the social ...
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OMCT concerned about pre-trial detention against human rights defenders, children

The World Organisation against Torture welcomes this dialogue and shares the Group’s concern over the use of pretrial detention. Our Global Torture Index shows that nearly half of all countries fail ...