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Global network fighting against torture and other humans rights violations
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Human Rights Defenders
In more than 80 countries, fighting for the respect of human rights is a high-risk activity, and groups and individuals who engage themselves on this road are the preferred targets of authorities and private groups who make use of enforced disappearances, summary executions, arbitrary detention or torture to keep them quiet.
 
OMCT has played a pioneering role in the protection of human rights defenders (HRDs). Since its creation, it has denounced the repression to which they are submitted. In 1997, OMCT created the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders in partnership with the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH). This unique collaboration is based on the complementarity of each organisation’s approach and is based on their respective NGO networks.
 

The “Human Rights Defenders” programme intervenes, especially via the Observatory, through various means:

 
  • Urgent interventions: Every time the Observatory receives a report of a case of repression against a defender, the information is verified with OMCT’s and/or FIDH’s partners, and an action is quickly launched in the form of an urgent appeal, a press release or a letter to authorities, depending on each case.
  • Fact-finding and judicial observation missions: The Observatory conducts fact-finding missions and judicial observation missions in the field. 
  • Reports: Each year, the Observatory publishes an Annual Report, which offers a status check that aims to mobilise civil society and international opinion.
  • Lobbying: The Observatory contributes to the promotion and reinforcement of international and regional mechanisms for the protection of defenders with various intergovernmental, regional and international bodies such as the United Nations, the Organisation of American States, the African Union, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the European Union.
  • Training: OMCT trains defenders on regional and international instruments in order to reinforce their ability to act and to promote the creation of national and regional protection networks (e.g., sharing and exchange of experiences, protection strategies, role of international NGOs, etc.).  

Acknowledgments

The Observatory thanks for their support the Canton of Geneva, the European Commission, the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Fondation de France, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the International Organisation of the Francophonie (OIF), the Liechtenstein Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the OAK Foundation, the Sigrid Rausing Trust, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, along with all the persons, national and international organisations, intergovernmental organisations and media which responded to the Observatory’s requests and supported its actions.


Coordinator:
Delphine Reculeau (dr@omct.org)
tel: + 41 22 809 49 39
 
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