World Organisation Against Torture - OMCT
WEBTorture isn’t rare - it’s happening every day, in every country and this is what you can do to contribute to its demise. Keep reading to learn more about how you can help. Join our mission. OMCT works with 200 member organisations to end torture and ill-treatment, assist victims, and protect human rights defenders at risk wherever they are.
Who we are - OMCT
WEBWho. we are. The OMCT works with 200 member organisations to end torture and ill-treatment, assist victims, and protect human rights defenders at risk wherever they are. Together, we make up the largest global group actively standing up to torture in over 90 countries. We work to protect the most vulnerable members of our societies, including ...
Indonesia: End and investigate violent repression of peaceful
WEB1 day ago · We call on the Indonesian government to immediately end the violent repression of peaceful protests and to conduct independent, effective, transparent investigations into these human rights violations, ensuring accountability for those responsible. It is crucial that any legislative changes …
What is torture? - OMCT
WEBTorture is the intentional destruction of a human being by another. The methods by which severe pain and suffering are inflicted vary, but they all have the same objective: to break a person, erase them as an individual, and deny they are human. Most of the time, torture evokes physical suffering, such as beatings or electrical shocks, and ...
OMCT and civil society alert UN Committee of torture of… | OMCT
WEB3 days ago · The pre-session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on Brazil is taking place this month in Geneva. The OMCT and its partners GAJOP, CEDECA Ceara and the Coalizão pela Socioeducação are presenting an alternative report to raise with the Committee our major concerns about the grave violations of children's rights deprived of ...
Our network - OMCT
WEBThe SOS-Torture Network is at the heart of the OMCT and is the currently the most important global network striving to put an end to torture and protect human rights defenders. At the outset, in 1985, it was composed of 48 non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Today, its over 200 members work in over 90 countries all over the world.
Committee Against Torture (CAT) - OMCT
WEBThe UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) monitors the implementation of States Parties’ obligations under the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The CAT was created in accordance to article 17 of the Convention against Torture. It is one of 10 treaty bodies attached to various human ...
Torture and the law - OMCT
WEBTorture is the infliction of extreme suffering upon men, women and children. It does not extract useful information, as people may give any answer to stop excruciating pain. Torture and other ill-treatment are about power relations and humiliation. They break people and their families. They brutalise societies by creating an atmosphere of fear ...
OMCT Strategic Plan 2021-2024
WEBThe OMCT's Strategic Plan 2021-2024 defines the organisation's primary framework for the coming four years. It sets out our overall vision for the future, together with our main programmatic goals and institutional targets. Convinced that we can achieve more by speaking out as a global anti-torture movement, the OMCT is mobilising and ...
Committee Against Torture | OMCT
WEBThe OMCT submitted seven alternative reports to the UN Committee against Torture.. In 2021, the work of the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) continued to be severely affected by Covid-19. The first CAT session of the year was scaled down again and the Committee decided not to conduct any State reviews online or to take any decisions on individual communications.