✨ The #GlobalWeekAgainstTorture gathered nearly 2,300 participants, 139 speakers, and 67 organisations across 31 sessions.
If you missed it, you can still be part of the movement.
🎥 Watch the session recordings now at gwat.omct.org and relive the conversations shaping the fight to #EndTorture.
📢 New press release!
On 25 June, OMCT launched the Global Torture Index, exposing patterns of torture, abuse & impunity in 26 countries.
📌 Local data
📌 Border violence
📌 Justice barriers
🔗 Read it here: bit.ly/4klVHeG
#GlobalTortureIndex #GlobalWeekAgainstTorture #ManyVoicesOneMovement
📢 “This Index empowers States & civil society to pursue evidence-based reforms.” – Dr Alice Jill Edwards
The #GlobalTortureIndex is live. A long-overdue tool to track torture risks worldwide.
🗺️ Explore now: bit.ly/40nlJa4
#GlobalTortureIndex #GlobalWeekAgainstTorture #ManyVoicesOneMovement
📍One message: rethink penal policies
👉 Read: www.fiacat.org/en/publicati...
#GlobalWeekAgainstTorture #GWAT2025 #UnitedAgainstTorture
📍1 constat : une urgence de repenser les politiques pénales
👉 Lire : www.fiacat.org/publications...
#GlobalWeekAgainstTorture #GWAT2025 #UnitedAgainstTorture
📣 Tomorrow! With @cels-argentina.bsky.social & CSVR, we'll be discussing regional & international efforts to address the trade in tools of torture, including a #TortureFreeTrade Treaty: gwat.omct.org/events/30
#GlobalWeekAgainstTorture #40YearsUnitedAgainstTorture #UnitedAgainstTorture
🇮🇳 Torture in India is systemic
📽️ Watch our latest country video and discover the #GlobalTortureIndex: youtu.be/fkWVb0FvF6g
🛑 Watch it & register for the launch tomorrow!
🗓️ 25 June | 14:00 CEST
🔗 gwat.omct.org/events/24
#GlobalWeekAgainstTorture #India #OMCT
Let's stand #UnitedAgainstTorture and for the right to peaceful protest.
#HumanRights #GlobalWeekAgainstTorture #RightToProtest #RuleOfLaw #TorturePrevention
@omctorg.bsky.social @irct.bsky.social @redress.org @fiacat-org.bsky.social
#GlobalWeekAgainstTorture #40YearsUnitedAgainstTorture
#UnitedAgainstTorture
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🔔 It begins tomorrow. Are you with us?
From 23–26 June, the #GlobalWeekAgainstTorture 2025 brings together the global anti-torture movement for four days of connection, resistance, and collective action.
💻 Join the most important week of the year for the anti-torture movement.
🔗 gwat.omct.org
🔥 From 23 to 26 June, the #GlobalWeekAgainstTorture brings together defenders, survivors, and allies from around the 🌎.
🗓️ 30+ events
🎙️ Voices from every region
📊 And the launch of the #GlobalTortureIndex
Will you miss it? 👉 gwat.omct.org
#ManyVoicesOneMovement #40YearsUnitedAgainstTorture
🗓️ Mark your calendars:
📌 Closing Ceremony – #GlobalWeekAgainstTorture 2025
🕒 26 June | 14:30–15:30 CEST
🌐 Online (EN, FR, ES, AR, RU)
Join us to honour the global anti-torture movement, reflect on what we’ll achieve together, and prepare for what comes next.
🔗 Register now: gwat.omct.org
In South Asia and the Middle East, torture in detention continues behind closed doors.
Join us 26 June at 09:00 CEST for a regional webinar exposing systemic failures & building a path forward.
Speakers from 🇵🇰 🇮🇳 🇱🇰 🇮🇷 🇸🇦
🔗 gwat.omct.org
#ManyVoicesOneMovement #GlobalWeekAgainstTorture
🌎 En América Latina, las familias han sido el motor de la denuncia, la memoria y la resiliencia.
Este 25 de junio, tres redes de sobrevivientes se encuentran para fortalecer la lucha contra la tortura.
🔗 Más información en gwat.omct.org
#ManyVoicesOneMovement #GlobalWeekAgainstTorture
🇵🇸 Palestinians in Israeli detention face systematic torture — deliberate starvation, enforced disappearance, disease, and isolation.
📅25 June | 🕚11:00–12:00 CEST
🔗Register now: gwat.omct.org
🌍With interpretation in English and Arabic
#ManyVoicesOneMovement #GlobalWeekAgainstTorture #40YearsUAT
Rehabilitation is a right. But for many torture survivors, it remains out of reach.
Join @irct.bsky.social + partners from 🇰🇪 Kenya & 🇱🇧 Lebanon to explore the impact of rehabilitation for torture survivors.
📅 25 June | 🕧 12:30–14:00 CEST
🔗 Register now: gwat.omct.org
#GlobalWeekAgainstTorture
How do we fight torture in crises that fade from global headlines but persist for years?
This session draws key lessons from 🇧🇮 and 🇨🇩 – two long-term contexts of repression and resistance.
📅 24 June | 15:30–17:00 CEST
🎧 Interpretation: EN/FR
🔗 gwat.omct.org
#GlobalWeekAgainstTorture
Budgets are shrinking. Crises are multiplying.
Can we really do more with less?
📅 24 June | 🕔 17:00–18:00 CEST | 🌍 Online
🔗 gwat.omct.org
A strategic conversation on the future of funding in the fight against torture.
#GlobalWeekAgainstTorture #HumanRightsFunding #40YearsUnitedAgainstTorture
📅 From 23 to 26 June, more than 30 events will bring together survivors, activists, UN experts, and human rights defenders from across the globe.
The #GlobalWeekAgainstTorture is not just an event. It's a movement.
🌍 See the full programme and register to your favourite events: gwat.omct.org
🇨🇱 “Secreto a voces” recoge los testimonios de mujeres sobrevivientes de violencia política sexual en dictadura chilena. Sus relatos son prueba. Memoria. Justicia.
🗓️ 23 junio | 18:00–19:00 CEST
💻 Evento online, en español
🔗 Regístrate en gwat.omct.org
#GlobalWeekAgainstTorture #Chile
🛑 Lieux de garde à vue = lieux à risque de torture.
Le 23 juin à 18h00 CEST, on en parle avec des acteur·rice·s de terrain du 🇹🇬 Togo, de la 🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire et de la 🇨🇩 RDC.
🌍 Rejoignez-nous : gwat.omct.org
#GlobalWeekAgainstTorture #40AnsContreLaTorture #Afrique #DroitsHumains
#ManyVoicesOneMovement #GlobalWeekAgainstTorture #GlobalTortureIndex #40YearsUnitedAgainstTorture @redress.org @fiacat-org.bsky.social @irct.bsky.social @omegarf.bsky.social
🌍 On June 25, during the #GlobalWeekAgainstTorture, OMCT and its partners will launch the #GlobalTortureIndex in an interactive event highlighting its role as a vital resource for assessing and addressing torture risks globally.
🔗 Learn more: www.omct.org/en/resources...
🌍 From beatings to tear gas to torture — protest repression is escalating worldwide.
On 24 June, join us for the launch of a new policy paper on how to stop it.
🕑 14:00 CEST
🔗 Register at gwat.omct.org
#GlobalWeekAgainstTorture #40YearsUnitedAgainstTorture #RightToProtest #TortureFreeFuture
⚠️ Protest. Be a woman. Be queer. Be Indigenous.
→ Then face sexual torture.
🌎 On 25 June, join our event on how sexual violence is weaponised in protests across Latin America.
🕓 16:00 CEST | 🔗 gwat.omct.org
#Atenco #GlobalWeekAgainstTorture #SexualViolenceIsTorture
📊 Coming 25 June: the #GlobalTortureIndex will be presented during the #GlobalWeekAgainstTorture.
⏩️ Built by OMCT & partners, this new tool exposes where torture more like to happen, who’s at risk, and what needs to change —turning data into action for justice.
🔗 Register now: gwat.omct.org
📣 Learn about how addressing the trade in law enforcement equipment is a vital part of #torture prevention.
💻 Join us, @cels-argentina.bsky.social, & CSVR for a discussion on regional & international efforts, including a #TortureFreeTrade Treaty: gwat.omct.org/events/30
#GlobalWeekAgainstTorture
🏳️🌈 On 25 June, don’t miss our global panel on the shrinking space for LGBTIQ+ human rights defenders.
Voices from from 🇨🇲, 🇦🇿, and MENA region come together to share their experiences.
🕐 13:00 CEST
🔗 Register: gwat.omct.org
#GlobalWeekAgainstTorture #LGBTIQHRDs #40YearsUnitedAgainstTorture
🇦🇫 Afghanistan: Torture in detention is widespread.
On 25 June, join OMCT and Afghan partners for a public discussion on our new report.
📍11:00 CEST
🔗 Register: gwat.omct.org
#GlobalWeekAgainstTorture #Afghanistan #HumanRights
