Ten years after the Chinese government’s widespread crackdown on human rights lawyers, concerned governments and the United ...

The Global Torture Index is a unique, data-driven tool designed to annually assess the risk of torture and other ill-treatment worldwide. It evaluates national laws, policies, and practices in line ...

Le Comité des Nations Unies contre la torture contrôle la mise en œuvre des obligations des États parties à la Convention contre la torture et autres peines ou traitements cruels, inhumains ou ...

On the occasion of 26 June, the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture- which symbolizes the global commitment to ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) expresses grave concern over a newly proposed ...

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 ...

The absolute prohibition of torture and other ill-treatment extends beyond places of deprivation of liberty; it also applies in extra-custodial ...