- 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 - Press Releases - Iran 30-12-2008 | Stop the harassment of Ms. Shirin Ebadi!
Paris - Geneva, December 30, 2008. 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), denounces the continued harassment faced by Ms. Shirin Ebadi, lawyer, Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights lawyer.
On December 29, 2008, at 5.30 pm., five finance inspectors raided Ms. Shirin Ebadi’s law firm in Tehran. Following a five-hour search through her clients’ files, her accounts, other personal documents and files, and computers, the inspectors left with 70 ...
Human Rights Defenders - Press Releases - Cambodia 28-12-2008 | Supreme Court Tested by Labor Leader’s Murder Case - Lack of Justice Leaves Unionists in Fear for Their Lives
Human Rights Defenders - Press Releases - Democratic Republic of Congo 24-12-2008 | Submission on the situation of human rights defenders in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Human Rights Defenders - Urgent Appeals - Uganda 23-12-2008 | Justice at last for Victor Juliet Mukasa!
Geneva-Paris, December 23, 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), welcomes yesterday’s final judgement of the High Court of Uganda in the case Ms. Victor Juliet Mukasa had brought against the Attorney General of Uganda when Government officials illegally raided in 2005 her home without a search warrant.
The Observatory recalls that in the night of July 20, 2005, the house of Ms. Victor Juliet Mukasa, President of the Sexual ...
Paris - Geneva, December 22, 2008. 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), expresses its utmost concern over the closure of the only independent human rights non governmental organisation in Iran, the Defenders of Human Rights Centre (DHRC).
On December 21, 2008, the headquarter of the Defenders ...
Human Rights Defenders - Press Releases - Colombia 17-12-2008 | Assassination of the husband of the indigenous leader Aida Quilcué while returning from attending the UPR session of the United Nations on Colombia
Human Rights Defenders - Press Releases - 15-12-2008 | OSCE: Ongoing practice of arbitrary detention of human rights defenders in OSCE Participating States
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.
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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 ...
