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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

In the days that followed the attack, the Iranian authorities undertook mass prisoner transfers, relocating surviving inmates—many of whom, human rights defenders, journalists, and activists—to other ...

Despite making strong human rights pledges during its 2021 UPR — including support for 257 of 285 recommendations, such as those calling for a safe environment for human rights defenders — Georgia has ...

KEN 002 / 0725 / OBS 045 Arbitrary detention / Release / Judicial harassment / Restriction to freedom of assembly Kenya 31 July 2025 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) expresses deep concern over the case of Mr Nelson Amenya, a Kenyan whistleblower who has courageously spoken out against ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT), along with the undersigned organisations, urge the European Union (EU) to put forward the ongoing human rights crisis in China ...

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, together ...