From a young age, he committed himself to human rights work as a lawyer, using legal methods to assist victims. His ...
UN experts and independent civil society organisations, including partners in the United Against Torture Consortium, are ...
United Nations Human Rights Council 39th Special Session on the deteriorating human rights situation in the Islamic Republic ...
In 2019, the OMCT and members of the SOS-Torture Network established three Regional Litigators’ Groups in Africa, Asia, and ...
As Macarena Fernández Hofmann attended the UN Committee Against Torture’s review of Argentina, she shed some light on the ...
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The World Organisation against Torture (OMCT) expresses its grave concern at the escalating repression and widespread human ...
The OMCT along with 64 civil society organisations have jointly called on UN Human Rights Council member states to urgently ...
THE OBSERVATORY UGA 002 / 0126 / OBS 004 NGO suspension / Account freeze/ Obstacles to freedom of association Uganda 14 January 2026 ...
THE OBSERVATORY UGA 001 / 0126 / OBS 003 Arbitrary detention / Judicial harassment Uganda 14 January 2026 The Observatory for ...
The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) works with around 200 member organisations which constitute its SOS-Torture Network, to end torture, fight impunity and protect human rights defenders ...