Rowena Legaspi, Executive Director of the Children’s Legal Rights and Development Center in the Philippines, partner of OMCT and SOS-Torture ...

Around the world, women human rights defenders play a crucial role in exposing abuses, supporting victims and survivors, and challenging impunity.

The Executive Council of the OMCT wishes to inform you that our Secretary General, Gerald Staberock, will now be stepping down after 16 years ...

PHL 001 / 0226 / OBS 012 Arbitrary detention / Judicial harassment / Obstacle to freedom of peaceful assembly The Philippines ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights, together with the undersigned organisations, strongly urges the Central Jakarta District Court ...

The assassination of Yanar Mohammed , a prominent Iraqi feminist and President of the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), on 2 March 2026 ...

March 2026 On the occasion of the review of Chad’s third periodic report by the United Nations Human Rights Committee during its 145th session ...

Joint Piece in collaboration with OMCT, as part of the Global Torture Index data analysis series, Antigone and Dr. Sharon Shalev (Oxford university & SolitaryConfinement.Org) Solitary confinement is ...

Resources / Statements / Iran: Over 30 NGOs raise alarm over dire situation for detained human rights defenders amid rising protest death toll 15 January 2026 – As mass repression of protests and ...

April 22, 2025- In the Autonomous Regions of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, such as the Mayangna Sauni As Territory (TMSA, in Spanish) located within the Bosawás Biosphere Reserve, Indigenous human ...

Resources / Statements / We condemn the attacks against Yendri Velásquez, Venezuelan human rights defender and asylum seeker in Colombia The Americas, October 14th, 2025 – The SOS-Torture Network and ...

The FIDH is an international human rights organisation that has been active since 1922 and is committed to the defense of civil, political, economic, and social rights.