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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Item 3: ID with the SR on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment - Interactive Dialogue My name is Italia Méndez. In November 2023, together with torture survivors from ...

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

URGENT APPEAL - THE OBSERVATORY New information GRE 002 / 0922 / OBS 067.3 Judicial harassment Greece 26 February 2026 The ...

The rights of assembly and association enable people to come together either in private, or in public, or online; it’s a fundamental part of our ...

Paris-Geneva, 25 February 2026. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership between the International Federation ...