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A coalition of human rights organisations — the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the World Organisation ...
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) expresses deep concern over the case of Mr Nelson ...
The OMCT condemns the US decision to place the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, ...
URGENT APPEAL - THE OBSERVATORY New information THA 002 / 1025 / OBS 038.8 Sentencing / Arbitrary detention / Judicial ...
The World Organisation Against Torture Office in Brussels is seeking to recruit an intern for its Development Team to provide increased capacity for researching new funding opportunities, supporting ...
The Observatory has been informed by the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) about the deportation of human rights lawyer and transitional justice expert Mr Martin Mavenjina, a senior legal advisor ...
Ten years after the Chinese government’s widespread crackdown on human rights lawyers, concerned governments and the United Nations ...
Guinean authorities must urgently reveal the fate and whereabouts of National Front for the Defence of the Constitution ...
Guatemala: The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OMCT-FIDH) and other human rights organisations and ...
The OMCT and the Vietnamese Advocates for Change (VAC) have submitted a joint report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee ahead of its review of Viet Nam’s compliance with the International ...
On the occasion of 26 June, the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture- which symbolizes the global commitment to ending the practice of torture and other ill-treatment- we, the ...
We, the undersigned organizations, call on the Egyptian government to immediately end its campaign of transnational repression targeting exiled Egyptian journalists. We specifically urge the ...