The World Organisation Against Torture works with 200 member organisations to end torture and ill-treatment, assist victims, and protect human rights defenders at risk wherever they are.

The World Organisation Against Torture works with 200 member organisations to end torture and ill-treatment, assist victims, and protect human rights defenders at risk wherever they are.

The OMCT and AWAFI are gravely alarmed by the imminent risk of mass atrocities in El Obeid, North Kordofan. This is not an abstract warning. It is a pattern we have already seen. In El Fasher, siege, ...

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

Geneve-Paris, 12 May 2026 . The undersigned human rights organisations, including the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership between the World Organisation Against ...

The Observatory has been informed by Adalah (The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel) of the abduction, arbitrary detention and acts of ill-treatment against Thiago Ávila e Silva Oliveira ...

We, the undersigned human rights organisations, write to bring to your urgent attention the forced return of journalist Afgan Sadigov to Azerbaijan and the broader pattern of transnational repression ...

Paris-Geneva-Istanbul, 16 April 2026 – The trial of Turkish and French sociologist and human rights defender Pınar Selek was postponed once again on 2 April 2026, with the Istanbul 15th High Criminal ...

torture victims received psychological, medical and legal assistance through SANAD, OMCT’s direct assistance programme for torture victims in Tunisia.

Today, torture lies at the heart of some of the world's most urgent crises, from rising authoritarianism and militarised policing to shrinking civic space and inequality-driven violence. It is ...

Trois décennies après l’adoption de la Déclaration et du Programme d’action de Beijing, le travail de l’OMCT a mis en lumière la profondeur de l’enracinement des violences et des discriminations ...

The Salvadoran reality, marked by high levels of violence and discrimination, led Verónica Reyna, a psychologist and director of human rights at the Passionist Social Service (SSPAS), to become a ...