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.
📢 Protests are fundamental to democratic life. Yet across the world, peaceful gatherings are increasingly met with excessive force and dangerous weapons, which undermines freedom of expression, violates human rights and in some cases may amount to torture and other ill-treatment.
December 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
📢 Protests are fundamental to democratic life. Yet across the world, peaceful gatherings are increasingly met with excessive force and dangerous weapons, which undermines freedom of expression, violates human rights and in some cases may amount to torture and other ill-treatment.
Our 🆕 E-Bulletin on #CAT83 is now available!
Check it out for a summary of the 🇺🇳 #UN Committee against Torture's latest session and recommendations to 🇦🇱 Albania, 🇦🇷 Argentina, 🇧🇭 Bahrain and 🇮🇱 Israel .
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#HumanRights #UNCAT #UnitedAgainstTorture
Check it out for a summary of the 🇺🇳 #UN Committee against Torture's latest session and recommendations to 🇦🇱 Albania, 🇦🇷 Argentina, 🇧🇭 Bahrain and 🇮🇱 Israel .
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#HumanRights #UNCAT #UnitedAgainstTorture
December 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Our 🆕 E-Bulletin on #CAT83 is now available!
Check it out for a summary of the 🇺🇳 #UN Committee against Torture's latest session and recommendations to 🇦🇱 Albania, 🇦🇷 Argentina, 🇧🇭 Bahrain and 🇮🇱 Israel .
🔗 bit.ly/44eNAeI
#HumanRights #UNCAT #UnitedAgainstTorture
Check it out for a summary of the 🇺🇳 #UN Committee against Torture's latest session and recommendations to 🇦🇱 Albania, 🇦🇷 Argentina, 🇧🇭 Bahrain and 🇮🇱 Israel .
🔗 bit.ly/44eNAeI
#HumanRights #UNCAT #UnitedAgainstTorture
🇷🇺 “Russia is openly declaring that it does not consider international human rights standards applicable to its territory.”
December 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🇷🇺 “Russia is openly declaring that it does not consider international human rights standards applicable to its territory.”
🇸🇦 #FacesOfHope: For 10 years, human rights defender Israa Al-Ghomgham has been arbitrarily detained in Saudi Arabia.
She remains behind bars for advocating and peacefully protesting for the rights and equal treatment of the Shia minority under Saudi Arabia’s law.
She remains behind bars for advocating and peacefully protesting for the rights and equal treatment of the Shia minority under Saudi Arabia’s law.
December 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🇸🇦 #FacesOfHope: For 10 years, human rights defender Israa Al-Ghomgham has been arbitrarily detained in Saudi Arabia.
She remains behind bars for advocating and peacefully protesting for the rights and equal treatment of the Shia minority under Saudi Arabia’s law.
She remains behind bars for advocating and peacefully protesting for the rights and equal treatment of the Shia minority under Saudi Arabia’s law.
🇲🇽 #México: El caso de Osmán es símbolo de violencia institucional y racismo. Su libertad no es una concesión, es un derecho arrebatado por la tortura y la arbitrariedad. Con Frayba Derechos Humanos exigimos su liberación inmediata.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🇲🇽 #México: El caso de Osmán es símbolo de violencia institucional y racismo. Su libertad no es una concesión, es un derecho arrebatado por la tortura y la arbitrariedad. Con Frayba Derechos Humanos exigimos su liberación inmediata.
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🟠 Gender-based violence can amount to torture and ill-treatment.
Our latest blog looks at hard-won gains – and alarming gaps – for women’s rights, using data from OMCT and partners’ #GlobalTortureIndex.
Our latest blog looks at hard-won gains – and alarming gaps – for women’s rights, using data from OMCT and partners’ #GlobalTortureIndex.
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
🟠 Gender-based violence can amount to torture and ill-treatment.
Our latest blog looks at hard-won gains – and alarming gaps – for women’s rights, using data from OMCT and partners’ #GlobalTortureIndex.
Our latest blog looks at hard-won gains – and alarming gaps – for women’s rights, using data from OMCT and partners’ #GlobalTortureIndex.
🇦🇷 #Argentina: Organizaciones de la sociedad civil denuncian la narrativa negacionista del Estado argentino y llaman al gobierno a adoptar las recomendaciones del CAT.
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December 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
🇦🇷 #Argentina: Organizaciones de la sociedad civil denuncian la narrativa negacionista del Estado argentino y llaman al gobierno a adoptar las recomendaciones del CAT.
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🚨 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.
OMCT calls on the 🇺🇳 UN Committee against Torture #UNCAT to demand an immediate end to this practice, the removal of coerced confessions from all platforms, and real accountability for those responsible.
Share to stand with Belarusian society.
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Share to stand with Belarusian society.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
OMCT calls on the 🇺🇳 UN Committee against Torture #UNCAT to demand an immediate end to this practice, the removal of coerced confessions from all platforms, and real accountability for those responsible.
Share to stand with Belarusian society.
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Share to stand with Belarusian society.
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📢 Our new OMCT briefing exposes how these videos are scripted, filmed under duress and spread across state-controlled channels, and why their public dissemination must be recognised as torture under the UN Convention against Torture.
December 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
📢 Our new OMCT briefing exposes how these videos are scripted, filmed under duress and spread across state-controlled channels, and why their public dissemination must be recognised as torture under the UN Convention against Torture.
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 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.
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🔗 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