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 , ...

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

July 2025 The United Against Torture Consortium (UATC) strongly welcomes today’s action by the European Union significantly ...

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

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 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 ...

The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) thanks the High Commission for the presented report. We welcome its findings that certain human rights violations perpetrated in Belarus since 2020 amount ...

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) ...

We from Afghan HRD+ and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) fully support Mr. Bennet’s observations that the human rights situation in my country is further worsening, and violations are ...

With 70% of detention centres overcrowded, the Philippines is one of the countries in the world hardest hit by prison overpopulation. The Marcos Jr administration has promised to tackle the problem ...

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 ...