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

We, the undersigned civil society organisations, are deeply concerned about the ongoing systematic repression of Pamiri ...

Al-Sharigy, a Libyan national, was subjected to egregious gender-based violence (GBV) and fell victim like many others to the ...

July 29, 2025 H.M. King Mohammed VI Rabat, Morocco Your Majesty, We are writing to request that the government of Morocco ...

URGENT APPEAL - THE OBSERVATORY KEN 002 / 0725 / OBS 045 Arbitrary detention / Release / Judicial harassment / Restriction to ...

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 ...

These laws impose excessive registration and reporting obligations, require public labelling of organisations as “foreign agents”, and introduce administrative and criminal penalties. They also ...

Geneva, 16 July 2025 – The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) condemns the recent adoption of the Amnesty Law and urges the Peruvian State to adhere to international human rights standards to ...

Last April, the United Nations Committee Against Torture reviewed Ukraine’s state on torture. The Committee especially examined the conditions seen in detention facilities, the increase in deaths in ...

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 ...

The Observatory has been informed about the tenth and latest conviction and prison sentence of Mr Anon Nampa, a prominent pro-democracy activist and human rights lawyer who has been arbitrarily ...