Let’s stand together against torture: Join #HumansAgainstTorture
Torture can hit anyone, anywhere – women, men and children. It causes pain that will never go away. Governments have the means to stop torture but fail to use them. The onus therefore is on each and everyone of us to demand that torture stops. [Read more …]
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The Observatory has been informed by reliable sources about the
administrative closure by the police of El Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation
for Victims of Violence and Torture (“El Nadeem Center”),based in Cairo.
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February 9, 2017 | Human Rights Defenders | Urgent Interventions | Egypt
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February 8, 2017 | Human Rights Defenders | Urgent Interventions | Mexico
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The Observatory has been informed by reliable sources of the ongoing judicial harassment of human rights defenders Ms. Teesta Setalvad and her husband, Mr. Javed Anand. Ms. Setalvad is the founder of Sabrang Trust, a non-governmental organisation that works to promote conflict resolution and support peace building, as well as of Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP).
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February 8, 2017 | Human Rights Defenders | Urgent Interventions | India
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Observatory has been informed by reliable sources about the continued
arbitrary detention of student and pro-democracy activist Mr. Jatuphat Boonpattaraksa (aka Pai), a
member of the Dao Din group and the New Democracy Movement (NDM).
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February 8, 2017 | Human Rights Defenders | Urgent Interventions | Thailand
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February 7, 2017 | Human Rights Defenders | Urgent Interventions | Guatemala
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Torturing suspects is illegal, ineffective and
will only heighten the risk of terrorism, the World Organisation Against
Torture (OMCT) warned after Donald Trump again condoned torture on his
first televised interview yesterday
as United States President.
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January 26, 2017 | Statements | United States
On the first anniversary of the death of Italian student Giulio
Regeni, Egypt still has not brought before justice those responsible for his
enforced disappearance, torture and killing.
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January 25, 2017 | Monitoring Protection Mechanisms | Statements | Egypt
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addition to its grave environmental risks, this project is not in line with the
EBRD Country Strategy for Turkmenistan, as well as EBRD’s Transportation
Strategy for the region. Unfortunately,
reform by the government of Turkmenistan has been largely absent and any
changes have been purely superficial, designed to appease international
institutions without providing any benefit to the citizens of the country.
Members of the political opposition inside the country have been pushed into
exile or imprisoned, with political prisoners often subject to torture
and enforced disappearance. read more ...
January 23, 2017 | Monitoring Protection Mechanisms | Urgent Interventions | Turkmenistan
Report on the Expert Workshop on redress and rehabilitation of child and adolescent victims How children can survive tortureof torture and the intergenerational
transmission of trauma
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January 20, 2017 | Assistance to victims, Rights of the Child | Reports and Publications
January 20, 2017 | Statements
January 18, 2017 | Monitoring Protection Mechanisms | Statements
Civil society organizations call on the Senate and Government of the Philippines to refrain from adopting reforms to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to nine.
This reform would be an abdication of the Philippines’ commitment under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and would not be an effective way of addressing crime committed by children. The
Committee on the Rights of the Child has called on States to progressively raise the age of criminal responsibility, and has made it clear that a minimum age of criminal responsibility of nine is not internationally acceptable.
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January 17, 2017 | Rights of the Child | Statements
The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) is seeking a full- or part-time volunteer for at least four months and up to a year to join its Geneva headquarters team as soon as possible. read more ...
January 13, 2017 | Links
Want to make a difference by putting your skills in the service of human rights? We need you!
This is an opportunity for an enthusiastic professional with honed filming/editing skills and marketing acumen to join our Communications Department, at the OMCT Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland. Our team will make you feel at home; we offer plenty of significant work and learning opportunities, and the corporate culture is international, collaborative and stimulating.
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January 13, 2017 | Links
The undersigned organisations strongly condemn
the abduction and torture of Azerbaijani journalist Mehman Huseynov and call on
Azerbaijan’s authorities to immediately investigate the case and to hold those
responsible accountable. Moreover, Huseynov’s conviction should be overturned
and the travel ban against him lifted. We further call upon the Azerbaijani
authorities to immediately and unconditionally release all journalists,
bloggers and activists currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan solely for exercising
the right to freedom of expression. read more ...
January 13, 2017 | Monitoring Protection Mechanisms | Urgent Interventions | Azerbaijan
