The Egyptian-British writer and activist, Alaa Abd el-Fattah , must be released on Sunday 29 September at the end of his five ...

Re: 79th Session of the UN General Assembly 23 September 2024 Your Excellencies, During the 79th session of the United ...

The pre-session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on Brazil is taking place this month in Geneva. The OMCT and its partners GAJOP, CEDECA Ceara and the Coalizão pela Socioeducação are ...

ID with Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela September 20, 2024 Oral statement by Helena Solà We appreciate the important report ...

ID with Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela September 20, 2024 Oral statement by Olga Guzmán We appreciate and acknowledge the ...

Mr Alain Berset Secretary General of the Council of Europe Palais de l’Europe Strasbourg 18 September 2024, Re.: ...

This initiative celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Convention against Torture (1984-2024) by giving a voice to torture ...

Four years ago, on September 17, 2020, Viasna member Marfa Rabkova was arbitrarily detained. To this day, she remains ...

The Medical Action Group is a non-profit organisation that is composed of health workers seeking to promote and defend human rights by focusing their work on the urban poor, political prisoners, and ...

My name is Verónica Razo Casales, and I was detained in Mexico without a judicial warrant by the federal police, together ...

The SOS-Torture Network is at the heart of the OMCT and is the currently the most important global network striving to put an end to torture and protect human rights defenders. At the outset, in 1985, ...