The Executive Council of the OMCT wishes to inform you that our Secretary General, Gerald Staberock, will now be stepping down after 16 years ...
PHL 001 / 0226 / OBS 012 Arbitrary detention / Judicial harassment / Obstacle to freedom of peaceful assembly The Philippines ...
Jawad Fairooz is a Bahraini human rights defender, Founder of OMCT’s SOS-Torture Network member organisation SALAM for Democracy and Human Rights. He ...
On Jan. 5, 2026, the Indian Supreme Court denied bail to human rights defender and student activist Umar Khalid, who has been ...
URGENT APPEAL - THE OBSERVATORY New information GRE 002 / 0922 / OBS 067.3 Judicial harassment Greece 26 February 2026 The ...
The rights of assembly and association enable people to come together either in private, or in public, or online; it’s a fundamental part of our ...
Paris-Geneva, 25 February 2026. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership between the International Federation ...
To be presented at the 61st Session of the UN Human Rights Council We, the undersigned Afghan and international civil society organisations, express ...
HUN 001 / 0226 / OBS 011 Criminalisation / Obstacles of freedom of assembly Hungary 19 February 2026 The Observatory for the Protection of Human ...
Areas of Work KARAPATAN is an organisation established in 1995 that works for the promotion and protection of human rights in Philippines. Its founders and members have been at the forefront of the ...
Each year on 10 October, the world marks the International Day against the Death Penalty. Although there is a clear trend towards abolition, with five international instruments prohibiting its use and ...
Occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) / United States of America: Sanctions imposed by the United States of America's OFAC against three Palestinian NGO's for engaging with the ICC ...