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The OMCT condemns the US decision to place the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, ...
KEN 001 / 0725 / OBS 040 Deportation Kenya 9 July, 2025 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a ...
Guatemala: The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OMCT-FIDH) and other human rights organisations and ...
Guinean authorities must urgently reveal the fate and whereabouts of National Front for the Defence of the Constitution ...
Ten years after the Chinese government’s widespread crackdown on human rights lawyers, concerned governments and the United ...
On the occasion of 26 June, the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture- which symbolizes the global commitment to ...
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) expresses grave concern over a newly proposed ...
The OMCT and the Vietnamese Advocates for Change (VAC) have submitted a joint report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee ahead of its review of Viet Nam’s compliance with the International ...
The absolute prohibition of torture and other ill-treatment extends beyond places of deprivation of liberty; it also applies in extra-custodial ...
In Venezuela, torture is part of a systematic pattern of state repression against persons arbitrarily detained for political reasons or for their work in the defense of human rights. According to ...
In Cajamarca, Peru, communities confront a challenging reality characterised by socio-environmental conflicts, the defence of their territories against mining expansion, and the criminalisation of ...
Resources / Reports / Burundi : Torture, Enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings persist despite the State's commitments Ten Burundian civil society organisations, under the coordination of ...