The undersigned organizations call for the immediate release of lawyer at the Court of Cassation and former member of Egypt’s ...

The undersigned organizations express their deep concern over the escalating pattern of “punishment by proxy” employed by the ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Observatory (OMCT-FIDH), together with the undersigned human rights organizations, strongly condemn the escalating crackdown by Moroccan authorities on peaceful protests, including minors and ...

The World Organisation against Torture welcomes this dialogue and shares the Group’s concern over the use of pretrial detention. Our Global Torture Index shows that nearly half of all countries fail ...

Resources / Statements / Philippines: Baguio Breaks Ground on Human Rights Defenders’ Protection – National Law Must Follow The Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA) together with the ...

The Observatory (OMCT-FIDH), and the other signatories strongly condemn the unprecedented weaponization of Egyptian diplomatic missions as tools of transnational repression against peaceful protesters ...