- Press Releases - 10-10-2007 | Kofi Annan named President of the Foundation supporting the World Organization against Torture (OMCT)
Geneva, October 10, 2007: On October 4, 2007, Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations, became the new President of the Foundation supporting the World Organization against Torture (OMCT). Kofi Annan has always demonstrated a strong commitment to human rights and has stated his total opposition to torture. In accepting to become the new President of the Foundation supporting OMCT, he expressed his wish to be actively involved in initiatives defending human ...
Mutabar TADJIBAEVA, released from prison on the 2nd of June and for the first time allowed to travel abroad, will receive the 2008 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (MEA) on Thursday 20th November, 18h00, during an international ceremony in Geneva at the ...
Human Rights Defenders - Documents - 17-11-2008 | The Observatory: Statement to the 44th session of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights
Human Rights Defenders - Press Releases - Djibouti 14-11-2008 | The Supreme Court victim of political pressures? Trial of the human rights defender Jean-Paul Noël Abdi
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - Press Releases - Kenya 13-11-2008 | Kenyan and international NGOs condemn the Government of Kenya's lack of commitment to ending torture
Human Rights Defenders - Press Releases - Guinea-Bissau 10-11-2008 | International Fact-Finding Mission Report: A Detrimental Environment to the Work of Human Rights Defenders
Publication of the report of an international fact-finding mission
Geneva-Paris, November 10, 2008. In the run-up to the November 16 legislative elections in Guinea-Bissau, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), publishes today a mission report entitled Guinea-Bissau: A ...
Human Rights Defenders - Open letters - Iran 05-11-2008 | Increased harassment of women human rights defenders
JOINT OPEN LETTER TO THE AUTHORITIES
We, the undersigned international women’s and human rights organizations, submit this letter to express our deep concern regarding the increasing harassment of women human rights defenders in Iran.
Over the past three years, the Iranian regime has engaged in a systematic campaign of repression against women’s rights activists. Since their heavy handed break-up of a peaceful women’s rights demonstration on June 12, 2006, the authorities in Iran have arrested, detained, interrogated, and prosecuted dozens of ...
United Nations Treaty Bodies - Press Releases - Nicaragua 04-11-2008 | Concerns in the United Nations with regard to the conditions of detention and ill-treatment of detainees
Geneva-Managua, 4 November 2008 – The United Nations Human Rights Committee made public its recommendations on the human rights situation in Nicaragua in which it expresses its concerns with regard to the high rate of over-crowding, the poor conditions of detention and the cases of ill treatment of detainees by the police.
The Human Rights Committee, after having examined the State Report on the implementation by Nicaragua of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted nearly 20 recommendations. The majority of these recommendations reflect the concerns identified in the report presented ...
OMCT's international secretariat is based in Geneva, Switzerland. The Secretariat coordinates the SOS-Torture Network made up of 282 regional and international organisations in 93 countries spanning five continents.
Contact : omct@omct.org
Geneva, October 10, 2007: On October 4, 2007, Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations, became the new President of the Foundation supporting the World Organization against Torture (OMCT). Kofi Annan has always demonstrated a strong commitment to human rights and has stated his total opposition to torture. In accepting to become the new President of the Foundation supporting OMCT, he expressed his wish to be actively involved in initiatives defending human ...
