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The Philippines: A Considerable Step Forwards thanks to the President Arroyo: The Anti-Torture Bill was signed!

Copenhagen - Geneva, 13 November 2009. The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) welcome the signing yesterday by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Act Penalizing the Commission of Acts of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment, prescribing Penalties Therefore and for Other Purposes. The signing of the Act is a ...

• International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
• International Federation of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture
• Rencontre africaine pour la défense des droits de l'Homme (RADDHO)
• Interafrican Union for Human Rights (IUHR)
• World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)

African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights

« We will not Participate in the 46th Session of the
African Commission on Human and ...

Paris – Geneva, 6 November 2009: The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) express their profound concern over the arbitrary arrest and detention of peaceful activists in Iran. Both organisations fear that they are at risk of torture and other ill-treatment while in detention.

FIDH and OMCT have been informed by the Iranian League for the Defense of Human Rights about the arbitrary detention of Messrs. Hasan Asadi Zaidabadi and Mohammad Sadeghi, members of the Central Council of the student alumni group Advar, as ...

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Paris-Geneva, November 2, 2009. 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), deplores the obstacles to the freedom of movement of Mr. Emad Baghi, a prominent journalist involved in the defence of human rights, with the obvious aim to prevent him from receiving the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (MEA).

Over the past days, Mr. Emad Baghi, who is also the founder of the Centre for Defence of Prisoners’ Rights, has been prevented from ...

Copenhagen, Geneva, London, Paris, 30 October 2009. The Coalition of International NGOs against Torture (CINAT)[1] strongly condemns Zimbabwe’s refusal to receive after all the officially planned fact-finding mission to Zimbabwe by the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Mr. Manfred Nowak. Mr. Nowak’s visit was postponed at the last minute by Zimbabwe’s Foreign Ministry while he was on transit to the country.

Mr. Manfred Nowak was invited by the Zimbabwe Government to conduct an ...