World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)
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The worldwide network of 200+ NGOs standing up against torture. OMCT is a member of the #UnitedAgainstTorture Consortium.
🇵🇪 On Women Human Rights Defenders Day, we spotlight Peruvian Quechua defender Tania Pariona Tarqui, who continues to speak out against growing impunity in Peru – from new amnesty laws that favour perpetrators to the risks faced by those who defend justice, memory, and life.
November 29, 2025 at 11:31 AM
🇵🇪 On Women Human Rights Defenders Day, we spotlight Peruvian Quechua defender Tania Pariona Tarqui, who continues to speak out against growing impunity in Peru – from new amnesty laws that favour perpetrators to the risks faced by those who defend justice, memory, and life.
🇵🇸 On the Int. Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, OMCT recalls its recent call to the 🇺🇳 #UNCAT to address the systematic use of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment against Palestinians during its review of 🇮🇱 Israel earlier this month.
🔗 bit.ly/3XU5r6W
🔗 bit.ly/3XU5r6W
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🇵🇸 On the Int. Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, OMCT recalls its recent call to the 🇺🇳 #UNCAT to address the systematic use of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment against Palestinians during its review of 🇮🇱 Israel earlier this month.
🔗 bit.ly/3XU5r6W
🔗 bit.ly/3XU5r6W
🌍 In the occasion of the #16DysofActivism against gender-based violence, the #AfricanWomenLeadershipAgainstTorture initiative come together with one message: violence against women and girls must end — everywhere, every day. 🟠
November 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
🌍 In the occasion of the #16DysofActivism against gender-based violence, the #AfricanWomenLeadershipAgainstTorture initiative come together with one message: violence against women and girls must end — everywhere, every day. 🟠
À l'occasion des 16 jours d'activisme contre les VBG, l'initiative #AfricanWomenLeadershipAgainstTorture se rassemble autour d'un seul message :
la violence contre les femmes et les filles doit cesser, partout et tous les jours.
la violence contre les femmes et les filles doit cesser, partout et tous les jours.
November 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
À l'occasion des 16 jours d'activisme contre les VBG, l'initiative #AfricanWomenLeadershipAgainstTorture se rassemble autour d'un seul message :
la violence contre les femmes et les filles doit cesser, partout et tous les jours.
la violence contre les femmes et les filles doit cesser, partout et tous les jours.
🇵🇪 #Perú: Junto a organizaciones internacionales denunciamos los atentados del Congreso contra la independencia judicial. Y llamamos a la comunidad internacional a oponerse al deterioro de la institucionalidad democrática.
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🔗 Leer más: bit.ly/4p5hrPb
November 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
🇵🇪 #Perú: Junto a organizaciones internacionales denunciamos los atentados del Congreso contra la independencia judicial. Y llamamos a la comunidad internacional a oponerse al deterioro de la institucionalidad democrática.
🔗 Leer más: bit.ly/4p5hrPb
🔗 Leer más: bit.ly/4p5hrPb
🇪🇨 #Ecuador: La ocupación militar de los centros penitenciarios no combate la violencia, sino que ha causado una crisis sanitaria, que hasta la fecha ha dejado cientos de muertos.
🔗 Lee aquí el informe alternativo de seguimiento que CDH Guayaquil y la OMCT enviaron al CAT: bit.ly/48mgPxe
🔗 Lee aquí el informe alternativo de seguimiento que CDH Guayaquil y la OMCT enviaron al CAT: bit.ly/48mgPxe
November 27, 2025 at 9:49 AM
🇪🇨 #Ecuador: La ocupación militar de los centros penitenciarios no combate la violencia, sino que ha causado una crisis sanitaria, que hasta la fecha ha dejado cientos de muertos.
🔗 Lee aquí el informe alternativo de seguimiento que CDH Guayaquil y la OMCT enviaron al CAT: bit.ly/48mgPxe
🔗 Lee aquí el informe alternativo de seguimiento que CDH Guayaquil y la OMCT enviaron al CAT: bit.ly/48mgPxe
🇱🇾 OMCT and the Libyan Anti-torture Network - LAN demand that Libyan women and girls be safe everywhere.
Online attacks inflict severe psychological & social trauma and are often a precursor to real-world human rights violations, including physical assaults and abductions.
🔗 bit.ly/3Kr33S2
Online attacks inflict severe psychological & social trauma and are often a precursor to real-world human rights violations, including physical assaults and abductions.
🔗 bit.ly/3Kr33S2
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🇱🇾 OMCT and the Libyan Anti-torture Network - LAN demand that Libyan women and girls be safe everywhere.
Online attacks inflict severe psychological & social trauma and are often a precursor to real-world human rights violations, including physical assaults and abductions.
🔗 bit.ly/3Kr33S2
Online attacks inflict severe psychological & social trauma and are often a precursor to real-world human rights violations, including physical assaults and abductions.
🔗 bit.ly/3Kr33S2
Without urgent support and international attention, Georgia’s independent civil society risks irreversible damage.
🔗 Read the report and help us share the findings: bit.ly/4rqff6u
🔗 Read the report and help us share the findings: bit.ly/4rqff6u
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Without urgent support and international attention, Georgia’s independent civil society risks irreversible damage.
🔗 Read the report and help us share the findings: bit.ly/4rqff6u
🔗 Read the report and help us share the findings: bit.ly/4rqff6u
“Georgia’s government has built a machinery designed to stifle every independent voice,” says Isabel Rosales, Director of the Human Rights Defenders Programme at OMCT. 💬
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
“Georgia’s government has built a machinery designed to stifle every independent voice,” says Isabel Rosales, Director of the Human Rights Defenders Programme at OMCT. 💬
🇬🇪 Georgia is experiencing one of the fastest declines in civic freedoms in Europe. Our new Observatory report, "Under Siege: How Georgia Is Dismantling Civil Society," shows how repressive laws, smear campaigns and intimidation are shrinking civic space.
November 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🇬🇪 Georgia is experiencing one of the fastest declines in civic freedoms in Europe. Our new Observatory report, "Under Siege: How Georgia Is Dismantling Civil Society," shows how repressive laws, smear campaigns and intimidation are shrinking civic space.
From now until December 10, we will be joining the #16DaysOfActivism to #EndViolenceAgainstWomen: #NoExcuse for online abuse.
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
From now until December 10, we will be joining the #16DaysOfActivism to #EndViolenceAgainstWomen: #NoExcuse for online abuse.
As we mark the Int. Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, OMCT’s #GlobalTortureIndex reveals crucial insights into how gender-based violence continues to affect women and girls, and where governments must do more to protect them, ensure justice, and guarantee support. 📊
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
As we mark the Int. Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, OMCT’s #GlobalTortureIndex reveals crucial insights into how gender-based violence continues to affect women and girls, and where governments must do more to protect them, ensure justice, and guarantee support. 📊
Violence against women affects one in three women and girls worldwide.
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Violence against women affects one in three women and girls worldwide.
🇪🇨 #Ecuador: 30 organizaciones de la sociedad civil piden un alto a la masacre causada por la militarización y las condiciones sanitarias del Penal del Litoral. En lo que va del 2025, se han registrado 590 muertes bajo custodia.
🔗 Leer más: bit.ly/44qHDew
🔗 Leer más: bit.ly/44qHDew
November 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
🇪🇨 #Ecuador: 30 organizaciones de la sociedad civil piden un alto a la masacre causada por la militarización y las condiciones sanitarias del Penal del Litoral. En lo que va del 2025, se han registrado 590 muertes bajo custodia.
🔗 Leer más: bit.ly/44qHDew
🔗 Leer más: bit.ly/44qHDew
📣 Job Opportunity
OMCT is looking for a Director of Finance for its 🇨🇭Geneva office!
💡If you are passionate about financial planning and management, and want to work at the intersection of budgeting, financial reporting, and human rights, this could be the opportunity for you!
OMCT is looking for a Director of Finance for its 🇨🇭Geneva office!
💡If you are passionate about financial planning and management, and want to work at the intersection of budgeting, financial reporting, and human rights, this could be the opportunity for you!
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
📣 Job Opportunity
OMCT is looking for a Director of Finance for its 🇨🇭Geneva office!
💡If you are passionate about financial planning and management, and want to work at the intersection of budgeting, financial reporting, and human rights, this could be the opportunity for you!
OMCT is looking for a Director of Finance for its 🇨🇭Geneva office!
💡If you are passionate about financial planning and management, and want to work at the intersection of budgeting, financial reporting, and human rights, this could be the opportunity for you!
🇦🇱 #CAT83: As the final session drew to a close, Rapporteur B. Tuzmukhamedov raised concerns over the Italy–Albania migration protocol and conditions in these migration centres.
November 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
🇦🇱 #CAT83: As the final session drew to a close, Rapporteur B. Tuzmukhamedov raised concerns over the Italy–Albania migration protocol and conditions in these migration centres.
🇪🇨 #Ecuador: La ocupación militar de los centros penitenciarios no combate la violencia, sino que ha causado una crisis sanitaria, que dejó 292 muertos entre enero y agosto de 2025.
🔗 Lee aquí el informe alternativo que CDHGYE y la OMCT enviaron al CAT-ONU: bit.ly/4iehvcK
🔗 Lee aquí el informe alternativo que CDHGYE y la OMCT enviaron al CAT-ONU: bit.ly/4iehvcK
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
🇪🇨 #Ecuador: La ocupación militar de los centros penitenciarios no combate la violencia, sino que ha causado una crisis sanitaria, que dejó 292 muertos entre enero y agosto de 2025.
🔗 Lee aquí el informe alternativo que CDHGYE y la OMCT enviaron al CAT-ONU: bit.ly/4iehvcK
🔗 Lee aquí el informe alternativo que CDHGYE y la OMCT enviaron al CAT-ONU: bit.ly/4iehvcK
✍️ OMCT and UATC partners contributed to ACHPR Newsletter No. 18 on Police and Human Rights.
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
✍️ OMCT and UATC partners contributed to ACHPR Newsletter No. 18 on Police and Human Rights.
🇲🇦 #FacesOfHope: For 15 years, journalist and human rights defender Mohamed Lamin Haddi has been arbitrarily detained in Morocco.
November 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🇲🇦 #FacesOfHope: For 15 years, journalist and human rights defender Mohamed Lamin Haddi has been arbitrarily detained in Morocco.
🇦🇷 En #Argentina, las mujeres con familiares privados de libertad viven invisibilidad institucional y ausencia de políticas públicas.
En su informe al #CAT, @ACIFaDArg muestra los impactos del sistema penitenciario en sus vidas.
🔗 bit.ly/3LJ0ETb
En su informe al #CAT, @ACIFaDArg muestra los impactos del sistema penitenciario en sus vidas.
🔗 bit.ly/3LJ0ETb
November 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
🇦🇷 En #Argentina, las mujeres con familiares privados de libertad viven invisibilidad institucional y ausencia de políticas públicas.
En su informe al #CAT, @ACIFaDArg muestra los impactos del sistema penitenciario en sus vidas.
🔗 bit.ly/3LJ0ETb
En su informe al #CAT, @ACIFaDArg muestra los impactos del sistema penitenciario en sus vidas.
🔗 bit.ly/3LJ0ETb
🇦🇷 En #Argentina, las políticas punitivistas de la administración Milei y la limitación de garantías han puesto a cientos de personas en riesgo de ser torturadas, como demuestra el informe al CAT de @CELS_Argentina @ACIFaDArg @XUMEKDDHH @acvi_ @ANDHES_org
🔗 bit.ly/43C73ph
🔗 bit.ly/43C73ph
November 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
🇦🇷 En #Argentina, las políticas punitivistas de la administración Milei y la limitación de garantías han puesto a cientos de personas en riesgo de ser torturadas, como demuestra el informe al CAT de @CELS_Argentina @ACIFaDArg @XUMEKDDHH @acvi_ @ANDHES_org
🔗 bit.ly/43C73ph
🔗 bit.ly/43C73ph
🇦🇷 #CAT83: Yesterday, during the final session, experts raised serious concerns over Argentina’s “anti-picketing” protocol (Res. 943/2023), adopted by executive decree to regulate crowd control.
November 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🇦🇷 #CAT83: Yesterday, during the final session, experts raised serious concerns over Argentina’s “anti-picketing” protocol (Res. 943/2023), adopted by executive decree to regulate crowd control.