URGENT APPEAL - THE OBSERVATORY ISR 001 / 1124 / OBS 045 Arbitrary arrest / Detention / Judicial and administrative ...

This initiative celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Convention against Torture (1984-2024) by giving a voice to torture ...

Effective anti-torture legislation is a critical first step ensuring accountability, yet many countries still lack ...

"Any time I tried to tell my story I would find myself breaking down as I remembered the past," she said, interviewed by the ...

The 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, ...

Russia: Torture and arbitrary detention of Ukrainian civilians in Russia are part of the crime against humanity of persecution ...

Asamblea Permanente de derechos Humanos de Bolivia is a civil entity that seeks to protect the free exercise and enforcement of human rights in all sectors of the national territory. Its work is ...

The Israel Public Committee Against Torture in Israel was established in 1990 in response to years-long governmental policies that permitted the use of torture by the Israeli Securities Authority.

Torture 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 ...