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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Amazonian Indians on borrowed time, an OMCT documentary produced by Daniel Schweizer on the human rights situation of indigenous peoples and their defenders , will be screened at the International Film Festival of Human Rights in Buenos Aires:
- Saturday, May 26, 2012 at 18h at the French Alliance of Buenos Aires
- Monday, May 28, 2012 at 17:30 at the library of Congress
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May 21, 2012 | Events | Brazil
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May 13, 2012 | Monitoring Protection Mechanisms | Events
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
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May 3, 2012 | Violence against women | Urgent Interventions | Mexico
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. read more ...
May 2, 2012 | Urgent campaigns | Urgent Interventions
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.
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April 30, 2012 | Urgent campaigns | Reports and Publications | Switzerland
April 25, 2012 | Monitoring Protection Mechanisms | Reports and Publications | Cuba
April 25, 2012 | Monitoring Protection Mechanisms | Reports and Publications | Greece
April 24, 2012 | Human Rights Defenders | Statements
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Amazonian Indians on borrowed time, an OMCT documentary produced by Daniel Schweizer on the human rights situation of indigenous peoples and their defenders , will be screened at the International Film Festival of Human Rights in Buenos Aires:
- Saturday, May 26, 2012 at 18h at the French Alliance of Buenos Aires
- Monday, May 28, 2012 at 17:30 at the library of Congress
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May 21, 2012 | Events | Brazil
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May 16, 2012 | Human Rights Defenders | Urgent Interventions | Belarus
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May 13, 2012 | Monitoring Protection Mechanisms | Events
May 10, 2012 | Human Rights Defenders | Urgent Interventions | Russian Federation
May 10, 2012 | Urgent Interventions | Sudan
May 10, 2012 | Human Rights Defenders | Urgent Interventions | Djibouti
May 8, 2012 | Human Rights Defenders | Urgent Interventions | Chad
May 7, 2012 | Urgent campaigns | Urgent Interventions | Tunisia
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