We, the undersigned organizations and journalists, express serious concern regarding the detention of Sudanese journalist ...

January 2026 - The continued prosecution of the president and 10 executive board members of the Istanbul Bar Association, and ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) expresses grave concern over a newly proposed proclamation that, if passed, would significantly restrict the independence, ...

Resources / Statements / Afghanistan: People’s Tribunal for Women in Afghanistan issues historic judgement. On the 11th of December 2025, the People’s Tribunal for Women in Afghanistan issued an ...

The World Organisation against Torture (OMCT) and our network members, the Ethiopian human rights council (EHRCO) and the Association for human rights in Ethiopia (AHRE), have submitted an alternative ...

Resources / Statements / China: Chinese government impunity for crackdown on lawyers fuels decade of repression (July 7, 2025) Ten years after the Chinese government’s widespread crackdown on human ...

Israel’s Supreme Court has recently clarified, this time explicitly, that interrogational torture is lawful in certain circumstances in Israel’s legal system. The clarification came in seemingly ...

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

The undersigned organisations, including the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT), call for the immediate and unconditional release of human rights defender and student ...

Resources / Statements / Kazakhstan: Physical attacks and judicial harassment of LGBTQIA+ defenders Temirlan Baimash, Ardzh Tursynkhan, and Zhanar Sekerbayeva Geneva-Paris, 19 December 2025 - At the ...

We, the undersigned legal and civil society organisations, urgently call upon the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government to release Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan without delay, ...

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