NOTHING CAN JUSTIFY TORTURE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!
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At the 43rd session of the Human Rights Council, States will consider a resolution extending for three years the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights Defenders. Civil society organisations from across the world are calling on all States to support the consensus renewal of the mandate, and to resist any attempt to undermine the mandate and States' obligations. read more ...
February 28, 2020 | Human Rights Defenders | Statements
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February 28, 2020 | Human Rights Defenders | Urgent Interventions | Guatemala
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The organizations urge Kyrgyzstan to withdraw the above mentioned draft laws as it contradicts to the State’s domestic and international obligations. It also is seen as non-sovereign and non-domestically grown idea, as civil society and government relations in Kyrgyzstan are developing in very dynamic and non-confrontational manner. Hence, the agenda of limiting civil society space is something that contradicts the positive partnership tradition of cooperation between the government and NCOs in Kyrgyzstan. This is another reason why this attempt of limiting civil society space should be dropped immediately. read more ...
February 28, 2020 | Human Rights Defenders | Statements | Kyrgyzstan
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The Observatory for the
Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OMCT-FIDH) denounces the new charges pressed against human rights defender Osman Kavala just
hours after he was acquitted in the “Gezi Park case”, in a clear attempt by the
Turkish authorities to extend his arbitrary detention.
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February 28, 2020 | Human Rights Defenders | Urgent Interventions | Turkey
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For the
past 5 years, the attacks against the Venezuelan human rights movement have
obeyed to the thesis of the alleged existence of an internal enemy who seeks to
destabilize the peace of the nation. As a result, the movement has been
affected, not only by stigmatization and the attempts of delegitimizing human
rights work through hateful and slanderous speech, but also by the application
of restrictive legislation, legal action, aggressions, digital attacks,
persecution, arbitrary raids, arbitrary detention, criminalization of
international cooperation, the confiscation of materials, amongst other
attacks, which has harmed and hindered the defense of human rights.
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February 25, 2020 | Human Rights Defenders | Statements | Venezuela
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February 28, 2020 | Statements | Bahrain, Egypt, Guatemala, Honduras, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Philippines, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Venezuela
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February 28, 2020 | Statements | Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras
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February 25, 2020 | Statements | Guatemala
February 20, 2020 | Reports and Publications | Congo, Democratic Republic
February 18, 2020 | Monitoring Protection Mechanisms, Violence against women | Events | Congo, Democratic Republic
February 11, 2020 | Links
The report by OMCT and nine other international organisations points to the repeated and generalized character of the human rights violations committed by the security services during the protests
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January 29, 2020 | Monitoring Protection Mechanisms | Reports and Publications | Chile
January 27, 2020 | Statements | Niger
January 27, 2020 | Monitoring Protection Mechanisms | Links
January 23, 2020 | Violence against women | Statements | Mexico
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