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

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 ...

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 ...

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

UKR 001 / 1125 / OBS 066 Judicial harassment Smear campaign Ukraine 3 November 2025 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, ...

Social media pictures of: Noel Cisneros, Katiuska Castillo Vásquez, Ingrid Briceño Venegas y Marcela Hernández Guerra Resources / Statements / Venezuela: Arbitrary Detention of Students Noel Cisneros, ...

Joint statement, 31 st October 2025 Geneva - Yaoundé, The OMCT SOS Torture Litigators’ Group in Africa, the International ...

The United Against Torture Consortium condemns the ongoing judicial harassment, intimidation, and smear campaigns targeting ...

In Venezuela, torture is part of a systematic pattern of state repression against persons arbitrarily detained for political reasons or for their work in the defense of human rights. According to ...

Armel Niyongere, exiled Burundian lawyer and Secretary General of SOS-Torture Burundi, a member of the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) SOS-Torture network, continues to denounce human rights ...

Paris-Geneva, 2 October 2025 – Today, the Sumud Flotilla for Freedom, carrying humanitarian aid for Gaza and composed by international human rights defenders and activists committed to non-violent ...