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.
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Welcome to our Bluesky profile. OMCT's new platform to amplify the voices of torture survivors, highlight global struggles, and strengthen our global movement against torture.
📲 Follow us and be part of the conversation.
🚨 New report: Public funding for human rights defenders remains only 0.10% of global ODA, despite rising threats.
Between 2021–2023, donors provided USD 612M, but key regions like MENA and Asia are seeing declining support, and local HRDs remain underfunded.
More: bit.ly/3KmNKtO
Between 2021–2023, donors provided USD 612M, but key regions like MENA and Asia are seeing declining support, and local HRDs remain underfunded.
More: bit.ly/3KmNKtO
December 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🚨 New report: Public funding for human rights defenders remains only 0.10% of global ODA, despite rising threats.
Between 2021–2023, donors provided USD 612M, but key regions like MENA and Asia are seeing declining support, and local HRDs remain underfunded.
More: bit.ly/3KmNKtO
Between 2021–2023, donors provided USD 612M, but key regions like MENA and Asia are seeing declining support, and local HRDs remain underfunded.
More: bit.ly/3KmNKtO
🇱🇾 Law is being weaponised against women in Libya to restrict freedom of expression and justify arrests granting perpetrators—including state actors—impunity.
December 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🇱🇾 Law is being weaponised against women in Libya to restrict freedom of expression and justify arrests granting perpetrators—including state actors—impunity.
🇳🇮 #FacesOfHope: Ignacio Celso Lino, Argüello Celso Lino, Donald Andrés Bruno Arcángel and Dionisio Robins Zacarías, four leaders and volunteer foresters in the Mayangna Sauni As community, on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, have been arbitrarily detained for the past 4 years.
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🇳🇮 #FacesOfHope: Ignacio Celso Lino, Argüello Celso Lino, Donald Andrés Bruno Arcángel and Dionisio Robins Zacarías, four leaders and volunteer foresters in the Mayangna Sauni As community, on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, have been arbitrarily detained for the past 4 years.
In Belarus, torture doesn’t end behind closed doors. Authorities film and broadcast forced “confessions” to shame people, intimidate society and silence dissent.
The #GlobalTortureIndex labels Belarus as "high risk" for torture and other ill-treatment.
The #GlobalTortureIndex labels Belarus as "high risk" for torture and other ill-treatment.
December 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
In Belarus, torture doesn’t end behind closed doors. Authorities film and broadcast forced “confessions” to shame people, intimidate society and silence dissent.
The #GlobalTortureIndex labels Belarus as "high risk" for torture and other ill-treatment.
The #GlobalTortureIndex labels Belarus as "high risk" for torture and other ill-treatment.
Torture happens every day, but so does solidarity. 💙
This #GivingTuesday, your donation can help survivors rebuild their lives and seek justice, and support those who risk everything to defend our rights.
Join OMCT to strengthen the global fight against torture.✊🏻
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This #GivingTuesday, your donation can help survivors rebuild their lives and seek justice, and support those who risk everything to defend our rights.
Join OMCT to strengthen the global fight against torture.✊🏻
⬇️
December 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Torture happens every day, but so does solidarity. 💙
This #GivingTuesday, your donation can help survivors rebuild their lives and seek justice, and support those who risk everything to defend our rights.
Join OMCT to strengthen the global fight against torture.✊🏻
⬇️
This #GivingTuesday, your donation can help survivors rebuild their lives and seek justice, and support those who risk everything to defend our rights.
Join OMCT to strengthen the global fight against torture.✊🏻
⬇️
🇭🇳 Honduras in the Global Torture Index
📊 The #GlobalTortureIndex ranks Honduras at high risk for torture.
🛑 In 2024, at least 284 attacks were recorded against journalists and human rights defenders
⚠️ Prisons are operating at nearly 149% capacity
📊 The #GlobalTortureIndex ranks Honduras at high risk for torture.
🛑 In 2024, at least 284 attacks were recorded against journalists and human rights defenders
⚠️ Prisons are operating at nearly 149% capacity
December 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
🇭🇳 Honduras in the Global Torture Index
📊 The #GlobalTortureIndex ranks Honduras at high risk for torture.
🛑 In 2024, at least 284 attacks were recorded against journalists and human rights defenders
⚠️ Prisons are operating at nearly 149% capacity
📊 The #GlobalTortureIndex ranks Honduras at high risk for torture.
🛑 In 2024, at least 284 attacks were recorded against journalists and human rights defenders
⚠️ Prisons are operating at nearly 149% capacity
🇭🇳 Honduras en el Índice Global de la Tortura
📊 El #GlobalTortureIndex clasifica a Honduras en alto riesgo de tortura.
🛑 Al menos 284 ataques contra periodistas y personas defensoras de derechos humanos fueron registrados en 2024
⚠️ Las prisiones funcionan a casi el 150% de su capacidad.
📊 El #GlobalTortureIndex clasifica a Honduras en alto riesgo de tortura.
🛑 Al menos 284 ataques contra periodistas y personas defensoras de derechos humanos fueron registrados en 2024
⚠️ Las prisiones funcionan a casi el 150% de su capacidad.
December 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
🇭🇳 Honduras en el Índice Global de la Tortura
📊 El #GlobalTortureIndex clasifica a Honduras en alto riesgo de tortura.
🛑 Al menos 284 ataques contra periodistas y personas defensoras de derechos humanos fueron registrados en 2024
⚠️ Las prisiones funcionan a casi el 150% de su capacidad.
📊 El #GlobalTortureIndex clasifica a Honduras en alto riesgo de tortura.
🛑 Al menos 284 ataques contra periodistas y personas defensoras de derechos humanos fueron registrados en 2024
⚠️ Las prisiones funcionan a casi el 150% de su capacidad.
🗺️ Arbitrary long-term detention has become one of the cruelest tools to silence human rights defenders. Around the world, women and men who protect communities, land, and freedoms are jailed on fabricated charges, after unfair trials and under abusive conditions – sometimes paying with their lives.
December 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🗺️ Arbitrary long-term detention has become one of the cruelest tools to silence human rights defenders. Around the world, women and men who protect communities, land, and freedoms are jailed on fabricated charges, after unfair trials and under abusive conditions – sometimes paying with their lives.
🇸🇻 On Women Human Rights Defenders Day, we spotlight Salvadoran defender Verónica Reyna, psychologist and Director of Human Rights at the Passionist Social Service (SSPAS).
🎥 youtube.com/shorts/IWOXk...
🎥 youtube.com/shorts/IWOXk...
Being a Woman Human Rights Defender under the State of Emergency in El Salvador
The Salvadoran reality, marked by high levels of violence and discrimination, led Verónica Reyna, a psychologist and director of human rights at the Passionist Social Service Institution (SSPAS), to…
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November 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
🇸🇻 On Women Human Rights Defenders Day, we spotlight Salvadoran defender Verónica Reyna, psychologist and Director of Human Rights at the Passionist Social Service (SSPAS).
🎥 youtube.com/shorts/IWOXk...
🎥 youtube.com/shorts/IWOXk...
🇵🇪 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 Women Human Rights Defenders Day, we spotlight Pedan Marthe Coulibaly, National Coordinator of the Ivorian Coalition of Human Rights Defenders (CIDDH), who works every day to document cases of torture and ill-treatment across Côte d’Ivoire.
🎥 bit.ly/48mQa3o
🎥 bit.ly/48mQa3o
November 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🇨🇮 On Women Human Rights Defenders Day, we spotlight Pedan Marthe Coulibaly, National Coordinator of the Ivorian Coalition of Human Rights Defenders (CIDDH), who works every day to document cases of torture and ill-treatment across Côte d’Ivoire.
🎥 bit.ly/48mQa3o
🎥 bit.ly/48mQa3o
🇵🇸 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.
🔗 Leer más: bit.ly/4p5hrPb
🔗 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
🇬🇪 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.
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
✊🏻 Through the #UnitedAgainstTortureConsortium, OMCT joins
@redress.org and partners in supporting organisations like Citizens' GAVEL whose strategic litigation is challenging impunity and securing justice for survivors.
📽️ Watch the video to learn more.
@redress.org and partners in supporting organisations like Citizens' GAVEL whose strategic litigation is challenging impunity and securing justice for survivors.
📽️ Watch the video to learn more.
⛓️ Torture and unlawful detention persist in #Nigeria.
Oluwafemi Ajibade of Citizens’ Gavel shares how, with support from REDRESS through the #UnitedAgainstTorture Consortium, GAVEL freed a videographer held for 4 years after #EndSARS — despite not taking part.
🎬 Watch the video:
Oluwafemi Ajibade of Citizens’ Gavel shares how, with support from REDRESS through the #UnitedAgainstTorture Consortium, GAVEL freed a videographer held for 4 years after #EndSARS — despite not taking part.
🎬 Watch the video:
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
✊🏻 Through the #UnitedAgainstTortureConsortium, OMCT joins
@redress.org and partners in supporting organisations like Citizens' GAVEL whose strategic litigation is challenging impunity and securing justice for survivors.
📽️ Watch the video to learn more.
@redress.org and partners in supporting organisations like Citizens' GAVEL whose strategic litigation is challenging impunity and securing justice for survivors.
📽️ Watch the video to learn more.
📣 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.