- 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 - Reports - 01-07-2009 | Steadfast in Protest - The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders publishes its Annual Report 2009
Paris-Geneva, 19th June 2009. 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), which supports, monitors and protects human rights defenders throughout the year, is publishing today its 2009 Annual Report. The report, of which foreword was written by Roberto Saviano, focuses on the year-round fight for human rights throughout the ...
Urgent Campaigns - Events - India Malaysia Nicaragua Sierra Leone 26-06-2009 | International Day in Support of Victims of Torture 26 June 2009 - Torture and other forms of ill-treatment can never be justified under any circumstances
Human Rights Defenders - Press Releases - Iran 26-06-2009 | Threats of legal proceedings against Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi for international human rights advocacy
Paris-Geneva, June 26, 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), expresses its utmost concern regarding the threats of judicial prosecution against Ms. Shirin Ebadi, human rights lawyer, co-founder of the Defenders of Human Rights Centre (DHRC), and Nobel Prize winner.
The Iranian official media have recently circulated an unsigned letter reportedly drafted by lawyers, university scholars and families of veterans and martyrs, calling upon Justice Minister ...
United Nations Treaty Bodies - Press Releases - Nicaragua 26-06-2009 | Nicaragua: OMCT Comunicado de prensa: Día Internacional en Apoyo a las Victimas de Tortura
Human Rights Defenders - Press Releases - Tunisia 25-06-2009 | L'Observatoire-REMDH: Communiqué: Tunisie: Multiplication des mesures vexatoires à l'encontre des défenseurs des droits de l'Homme
Human Rights Defenders - Press Releases - Colombia 23-06-2009 | COLOMBIA: Vigilancia constante del CCAJAR y espionaje en contra del mismo y de otros defensores por parte del DAS
OMCT - general activities - Reports - 22-06-2009 | World Organisation Against Torture - 2008 Annual Report
Human Rights Defenders - Press Releases - Iran 22-06-2009 | Renewed attacks on human rights defenders and civil society
Paris-Geneva, June 22, 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), reiterates its deepest concern regarding the continued disappearance of Mr. Abdolfattah Soltani, a lawyer at the Bar of Tehran and a founding member of the Defenders of Human Rights Centre (DHRC), and of Mr. Ahmad Zeydabadi, a political analyst and active civil society activist.
“Since their arrest last week, the whereabouts of Messrs. Soltani and Zeydabadi ...
Human Rights Defenders - Open letters - Vietnam 19-06-2009 | Arrest and detention of human rights lawyer Mr. Le Cong Dinh
Re: Vietnam – Arrest and detention of human rights lawyer Mr Le Cong Dinh
Front Line and 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), express their concern regarding the arbitrary arrest of human rights lawyer Mr. Le Cong Dinh on 13 June 2009. Le Cong Dinh is a prominent human rights lawyer and the former vice-president of the Ho Chi Minh City Bar Association. He has recently spoken out against the extraction of bauxite in the Central Highlands, ...
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 ...
