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10 Successes of the Global Anti-Torture Movement in 2024
In 2024, severe human rights crises impacted multiple regions. In Ukraine, the ongoing conflict led to violence against civilians, including torture and arbitrary detention. In Bangladesh, a brutal ...
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Azerbaijan: Arbitrary detention and judicial harassment against Rufat Safarov
URGENT APPEAL - THE OBSERVATORY AZE 002 / 1224 / OBS 052 Arbitrary detention / Judicial harassment Azerbaijan 20 December ...
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Human Rights Officer for Afghanistan (80-100%)
The OMCT works with around 200 member organisations which constitute its SOS-Torture Network, to end torture, fight impunity and protect human rights defenders worldwide. Together, we make up the ...
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Zimbabwe’s Civic Space in Crisis: New Report Details Growing Operational Obstacles and Legal Threats to Civil Society
Resources / Reports / Zimbabwe’s Civic Space in Crisis: New Report Details Growing Operational Obstacles and Legal Threats to Civil Society The ouster of President Robert Mugabe in 2017 in Zimbabwe ...
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Looking Back on 40 Years of the Fight Against Torture with the Chair of the Committee Against Torture
This interview is part of the United Against Torture Consortium’s Voices for Human Dignity multimedia initiative. This initiative celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Convention against Torture ...
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Niger: Prominent Civil Society Activist Arbitrarily Arrested
(Dakar, Geneve, Nairobi, Paris, December 9, 2024) – Niger’s military authorities should immediately drop all charges and release a prominent civil society activist and critic of the government, as he ...
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Consultancy - National Coordinator – United Against Torture Consortium’s crisis facility on Bangladesh
The OMCT works with around 200 member organisations which constitute its SOS-Torture Network, to end torture, fight impunity and protect human rights defenders worldwide. Together, we make up the ...
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Nicaragua: Recent reforms to the Constitution are contrary to human rights treaties
Nicaraguans, as a result of the recent reforms to the Constitution, have been left without rights, being eliminated from its text the recognition of treaties and conventions on human rights, the ...
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Laos: States should ask “Where is Sombath?” at upcoming review of human rights record
15 December 2024: On the 12-year anniversary of the unresolved enforced disappearance of Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone, we, the undersigned civil society organizations and individuals ...
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Cameroun : Suspension arbitraire du REDHAC
Le ministre de l’Administration Territoriale du Cameroun a pris un arrêté le 6 décembre 2024 suspendant le Réseau des Défenseurs des Droits Humains en Afrique Centrale (REDHAC), un partenaire clé de ...
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Tchad : les victimes du « jeudi noir » saisissent la justice
Plus de deux ans après les événements tragiques du 20 octobre 2022, appelé « jeudi noir », dix victimes viennent de déposer une plainte auprès des tribunaux de N’Djamena avec le soutien de la Ligue ...