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) is seeking to recruit an intern for its recently launched Global Torture Index initiative in its office in Brussels.

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

The United Against Torture Consortium is calling on Bangladesh’s newly elected administration to respect and restore civic space and to carry out significant reforms on the prevention of and ...

Geneva – Brussels, 15 July, 2022 – Increased incarceration rates over recent years have exacerbated already substandard conditions of detention in Turkey, the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) ...

Geneva (OMCT) – A new report, published today, documents 122 killings of children, from 1 to 17 years old, throughout the Philippines, between July 2016 and December 2019. The report, titled “How ...

The enforcement of Covid-19 related restrictions has dangerously increased police violence worldwide, according to a new briefing report published today by the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT ...

Libyan citizens have not participated in parliamentary or presidential elections since 2014, but 2024 could prove pivotal. Ending Libya's decade-long stalemate and forming a unified government is a ...

The United Against Torture Consortium (UATC), with our national members, call the Government of Georgia to end violence against peaceful protesters, promptly and impartially investigate all credible ...

The40-page report, titled “ I’ll kill you along with drug addicts - PresidentDuterte’s war on human rights defenders in the Philippines ”, documents the dramatic deterioration of the situation for ...

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 ...