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 ...
World Day in Support of Victims of Torture: States must… | OMCT
WEBEspañol. 26 June 2024 — On the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the United Against Torture Consortium calls on States to defend the progress made in the last decades in upholding human dignity by showing a greater commitment to ending torture worldwide. Since its adoption almost 40 years ago, the UN Convention against ...
Victim support - OMCT
WEBThanks to our Fund for Urgent Assistance for Victims of Torture, we are currently the only international human rights NGO providing direct, multi-dimensional urgent assistance to victims of torture anywhere in the world. In 2021, we have disbursed funds for the social, medical and/or legal support of 125 victims in six countries. In Rwanda, three refugees from Burundi, who fled after being ...
Committee against Torture - OMCT
WEBThe United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) became fully operational in 2022 again after suspending its work during much of the Covid-19 pandemic. Some effects of the pandemic remained as not only had CAT members suspended their work, other protection systems at regional and country levels reduced their actions and fell short in preventing torture and providing support to survivors.
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.
Resources - OMCT
WEBThe World Organisation Against Torture works with 200 member organisations to end torture and ill-treatment, assist victims, and protect human rights…
What we do - OMCT
WEBWhat we do. Committee Against Torture (CAT) Human rights defenders. Victim support. Seeking justice. Supporting the human rights movement. Enforced disappearances. Detention. Extrajudicial killings.
Children | OMCT
WEBThe OMCT, through its Child Protection Against Torture Programme, currently works to prevent and protect children from torture and ill-treatment in six priority countries: Benin, Brazil, India, the Philippines, Togo, and Uruguay. A wreath of flowers is placed at the crime scene where 17-year old Kian delos Santos was killed by three policemen ...
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 ...