Joint statement by international and regional human rights experts in the context of the continued arbitrary and prolonged ...

Digital violence against women and girls in Libya is no longer a fringe issue; it is a systemic, escalating threat that ...

Joint OMCT–FIDH investigation reveals how Georgia’s ruling party has built a system of repression against civil society, with ...

We, the undersigned organisations, including the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT), call ...

Paris-Geneva, June 22, 2022 – Following the arbitrary detention of 22 people, including 20 journalists, in Diyarbakir earlier this month, 16 of them were arbitrarily arrested on June 16, 2022. FIDH ...

Israel–oPT/Gaza: Urgent need to protect civilians on all sides and to ensure humanitarian access to those in need ...

The Global Torture Index is a unique, data-driven tool designed to annually assess the risk of torture and other ill-treatment worldwide. It evaluates national laws, policies, and practices in line ...

Brussels-Oslo-Stockholm, 24 May 2022 – As authorities in Tajikistan continue their violent crackdown on protestors in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), human rights organisations urge ...

Women are particularly vulnerable when in prison because of their gender. They face specific forms of gender-based violence, including rape and other forms of sexual violence, touching, being stripped ...

The undersigned organizations call for the immediate release of lawyer at the Court of Cassation and former member of Egypt’s National Council for ...

We the undersigned groups and organisations, including FIDH and OMCT in the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, would like to express our grave concern and raise ...

Turkey has been employing counter-terrorism and national security legislation to restrict rights and freedoms and silence the voices of human rights defenders, the World Organisation Against Torture ...