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World Organisation Against Torture

Created in 1985, the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) is today the main coalition of international non-governmental organisations (NGO) fighting against torture, summary executions, enforced disappearances and all other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. With 311 affiliated organisations in its SOS-Torture Network and many tens of thousands correspondents in every country, OMCT is the most important network of non-governmental organisations working for the protection and the promotion of human rights in the world. [Read more …]

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May 13, 2012 | Monitoring Protection Mechanisms | Events

Mexico: Call for justice for the women of Atenco, after 6 years of violence, discrimination and impunity

Under the sixth anniversary of the events, the undersigned organizations express our support for the women of Atenco and demand that Mexico comply with its obligations under international treaties, the Constitution and the legislation currently in force, as well as with the recommendations issued by the United Nations human rights bodies; specifically, to properly investigate the sexual torture inflicted on the women of Atenco, punish the perpetrators and redress the damages

May 3, 2012 | Violence against women | Urgent Interventions | Mexico

The ASEAN Human Rights Declaration: Drafts must be published and subject to meaningful consultations with local, national and regional civil society and human rights defenders

We, the undersigned international human rights organizations, are concerned that the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) has yet to take the necessary steps to ensure that the process of drafting the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) is transparent and fully consultative with civil society organizations in the ASEAN region.

May 2, 2012 | Urgent campaigns | Urgent Interventions

Switzerland: Swiss NGO UPR report

In the frame of the second Universal Periodic Review of Switzerland by the UN Human Rights Council, forty-seven Swiss NGOs active in the field of human and fundamental rights as well as in other specialized domains have worked in a coalition to submit this joint report on the human rights situation in Switzerland.

April 30, 2012 | Urgent campaigns | Reports and Publications | Switzerland