Many voices. One movement. ✊🏾
Torture is not a thing of the past, and neither is the fight to end it.
OMCT's strategy for 2025–2029 sets out how we will strengthen the global movement, support those on the frontlines, and push for accountability, protection, and lasting change.
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🤝 OMCT looks forward to continuing its collaboration with the mandate and calls on States to ensure adequate resources and staffing for this critical work.
🚨 This mandate is vital to uphold the absolute prohibition of torture, address complaints, and develop standards and recommendations to tackle all forms of torture in every contexts
👏 OMCT welcomes the renewal of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Torture for three years through Resolution A/HRC/61/L.10 adopted without a vote.
Today, we reshare this conversation to reflect on what genocide means, as it remains as relevant as ever.
🔗 Read the article: bit.ly/4hWnMb9
In this article, we also spoke with human rights defenders from 🇧🇮 Burundi, 🇪🇹 Ethiopia, and 🇨🇩 the DRC, to reflect on why, even if they countries have experienced mass killings, these tragic events have not classified as genocide.
🇷🇼 31 years ago, Rwanda witnessed a horrific genocide against the Tutsi.
Together with our partner ODHR, we reflect on the current situation and the efforts made over the past three decades to advance reparation, reconciliation, and accountability.
In this interview, Verónica Reyna, a psychologist and director of human rights at the Passionist Social Service (SSPAS), explains the multiple forms of violence and stigmatisation faced especially by women, young people, and the LGBTIQ+ community.
🔗 Read her interview: bit.ly/4kxSee4
🇸🇻 It's been just over four years since the state of emergency in El Salvador was declared. According to the government, it aims to reduce criminal violence, but in doing so, suspended constitutional rights.
🛑 Extrajudicial killings tied to the “war on drugs” launched in 2016 by former President Rodrigo Duterte are still happening today.
📊 Use the data. Demand an end to torture in the Philippines.
🔗 Explore the findings at bit.ly/4bMivTP
#HumanRights #EndTorture #ThePhilippines
🇵🇭 The Philippines in the Global Torture Index
📊 The #GlobalTortureIndex classifies the Philippines as at high risk of torture.
⚠️ Violence against women, children, LGBTQIA+ and Indigenous people remains widespread.
‼️ 13 out of every 20 detainees have not been tried.
🛑 Extrajudicial killings tied to the “war on drugs” launched in 2016 by former President Rodrigo Duterte are still happening today.
📊 Use the data. Demand an end to torture in the Philippines.
🔗 Explore the findings at bit.ly/4bMivTP
#HumanRights #EndTorture #ThePhilippines
At a time of increasing repression against human rights defenders worldwide, her experience and dedication will be essential. We look forward to continuing our collaboration in support of defenders everywhere. ✊🏾
From advancing work on torture and ill-treatment against Indigenous peoples to supporting defenders in Latin America, her engagement has been both principled and impactful. 🌎
🇺🇳 We warmly welcome Andrea as the newly appointed UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders.
OMCT has had the privilege of working alongside her over the years, witnessing her unwavering commitment to those most at risk.
At a time when implementation of these recommendations is critical, this law represents a dangerous step backwards. 🇵🇸
OMCT reiterates its absolute opposition to the death penalty in all circumstances and calls for the immediate repeal of this legislation.
The bill stands in direct contradiction with the recommendations of the Committee Against Torture, which urged the 🇮🇱 State to move toward abolition and warned against the arbitrary and discriminatory use of capital punishment.
Its application in military courts—where due process is deeply compromised and conviction rates are extremely high—raises grave concerns, particularly in a context where torture and ill-treatment remain widely reported.
🇮🇱 By introducing a discriminatory legal framework that overwhelmingly targets 🇵🇸 Palestinians, this law entrenches a two-tiered system of justice and risks irreversible violations of the right to life.
📢 🇵🇸 The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) strongly condemns the adoption of the new bill by the 🇮🇱 Israeli Knesset expanding the use of the death penalty.
🎥 Their film, "Traces", was recently screened at the @fifdh.bsky.social, in an event co-hosted by OMCT, a main partner of the festival.
🔗 In this interview, Alisa Kovalenko and Iryna Dovgan talk about the process of creating this documentary, and how they intend to use it as a tool for memory, advocacy, and justice: bit.ly/4uVQ5OB
🇺🇦 Alisa Kovalenko is a survivor, the first one to speak out about the sexual violence she endured during 🇷🇺 Russia’s invasion of the Ukrainian region of Donbas.
After the full-scale invasion, along with co-director Marysia Nikitiuk, the documented Iryna Dovgan’s and many other women’s testimonials.
We thank the Special Rapporteur @francesca.albanese.unsr.opt, and the many Palestinian, Israeli, and international organisations and human rights defenders who continue to document violations, often at great personal risk.
🔗 Read the full report: bit.ly/4m3xSL5
In November 2025, the UN Committee Against Torture echoed his conclusion after finding indications of a "de facto State policy of widespread and systematic torture and ill-treatment, significantly intensified since October 2023".
The report finds acts of torture by Israeli authorities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories to be collective, widespread and systematic, and that constitute themselves an intent to commit genocide against Palestinians.
🇵🇸 This carousel draws on the latest report by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory.
