On 7 June 2026, the Government of Bangladesh published two draft bills: the Prevention and Remedy of Enforced Disappearance ...

Roberta Metsola  President of the European Parliament  25 June 2026, Brussels  Dear President Metsola,  We, the undersigned organisations, are writing ...

Sustained advocacy, legal action and international solidarity can help secure the release of arbitrarily detained human ...

Sustained advocacy, legal action and international solidarity can help secure the release of arbitrarily detained human ...

Item 3: Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association ...

On this International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, we stand in solidarity with survivors worldwide and sound the ...

Geneva, 14 April 2025 - Myanmar’s Tharyarwaddy prison stands as a stark symbol of state-sponsored abuse, where political detainees endure torture, medical neglect, and forced labor under ...

At the end of last year, the United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) reviewed South Korea, in the framework of its 80th session. Seok-joo Son, a Korean survivor of historic abuse, embarked on a ...

The second edition of the Global Torture Index highlights a marked disconnect between international legal standards and domestic legal frameworks on the one hand, and their persistent disregard in ...

On March 13, human rights activist Tolekan Ismailova was taken in for questioning by officers from the Bishkek City Main Internal Affairs Directorate. The day before, it became known that a ...

At the end of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign (25 November–10 December 2025), the Movement of Women and Girls for Peace and Security in Burundi (MFFPS) and the World ...

Geneva (OMCT) – A new report, published today, documents 122 killings of children, from 1 to 17 years old, throughout the Philippines, between July 2016 and December 2019. The report, titled “How ...