Niger’s authorities should immediately release civil society activist and human rights defender Moussa Tchangari and stop ...

Resources / Reports / Burundi : Torture, Enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings persist despite the State's commitments Ten Burundian civil society organisations, under the coordination of ...

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

Despite 175 countries ratifying the UN Convention Against Torture, this grave violation of human rights persists in prisons, public assemblies, armed conflicts, and daily police interventions. Torture ...

The Observatory has been informed about the ongoing judicial harassment of Mr. Ssuuna James, a cyberactivist and human rights defender, founder and Executive Director of Freedom Hive Uganda, an ...

Ressources / Rapports / Burundi : Torture, disparitions forcées et exécutions extrajudiciaires persistent malgré les engagements de l’État Dix organisations de la société civile burundaise, sous la ...

The Observatory has been informed of the ongoing harassment of 27 students at Kyambogo University in Kampala, Uganda, including Akiso Benjamin, the Guild President and a social justice and ...

Under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), no child should ever be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment (Article 37). Yet the ...

L’Organisation mondiale contre la torture exprime son indignation face aux tentatives de perturbation et de déstabilisation des travaux du Conseil national de la Ligue Tunisienne des Droits de l’Homme ...

Resources / Statements / China: Joint Statement from Civil Society Groups on the Chinese Government’s Arbitrary Detention of Journalist Zhang Zhan A coalition of 62 press freedom and human rights ...

On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, human rights organisations, including the FIDH and OMCT within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, are warning of ...

L'Observatoire a été informé de l’enlèvement, de la détention arbitraire et du harcèlement judiciaire de M. Ghislain Assy Yapo dit Duggary, instituteur et Secrétaire à la communication du syndicat « ...