March 2026 As journalist and human rights defender Irfan Mehraj marks three years in arbitrary detention tomorrow, we the ...
Four years after the murder of the Nasa indigenous leader José Miller Correa, former councillor of the Association of ...
On March 13, human rights activist Tolekan Ismailova was taken in for questioning by officers from the Bishkek City Main ...
As 17 March marked 15 years of arbitrary detention of human rights defender Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace for his role in Bahrain’s pro-democracy movement, ...
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We, civil society across the globe - including the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OMCT-FIDH) ...
Rowena Legaspi, Executive Director of the Children’s Legal Rights and Development Center in the Philippines, partner of OMCT ...
The assassination of Yanar Mohammed , a prominent Iraqi feminist and President of the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), on 2 March 2026 ...
Resources / Statements / Iran: Over 30 NGOs raise alarm over dire situation for detained human rights defenders amid rising protest death toll 15 January 2026 – As mass repression of protests and ...
Joint Piece in collaboration with OMCT, as part of the Global Torture Index data analysis series, Antigone and Dr. Sharon Shalev (Oxford university & SolitaryConfinement.Org) Solitary confinement is ...
Fifty years have passed since Morocco’s military occupation of Western Sahara, yet the Sahrawi people remain deprived of their inalienable right to self-determination, in blatant violation of ...
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