- 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 ...
Human Rights Defenders - Events - 13-05-2008 | The Observatory: 43rd session of the ACHPR: Statement on the situation of human rights defenders in Africa
Human Rights Defenders - Press Releases - Brazil 07-05-2008 | Acquittal of the alleged intellectual author of the assassination of Sister Dorothy Mae Stang, in the State of Pará
Violence against Women - Press Releases - Guatemala 30-04-2008 | When justice triumphs: Former policeman convicted of raping of a woman deprived of her liberty in Guatemala
Human Rights Defenders - Press Releases - Bahrain 23-04-2008 | Hearing in the trial of seven human rights defenders / International Mission of Judicial Observation
International Mission of Judicial Observation
Geneva-Paris, April 23, 2008. On April 16, 2008, the Observatory for the protection of human rights defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), sent an international mission of judicial observation in the framework of the trial of seven human rights defenders, which was held before the High Criminal Court of Bahrain.
Indeed, the Observatory recalls that Messrs. Maytham Bader Jassim Am-Sheikh, Hassan Abdulnabi, Hassan ...
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - Events - 22-04-2008 | An invitation to submit nominations to participate in OMCT’s Special Procedures Seminar, 23 – 27 June 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
Working with the United Nations Special
Procedures System to fight torture and other forms of ill-treatment by acting on their
economic, social and cultural root causes
“By knowing each other, we learn from each other, are encouraged, stand for each other
and use the useful tactics of different countries in different situations.”[1]
The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) invites nominations for participation in the Special ...
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 ...
