As 17 March marked 15 years of arbitrary detention of human rights defender Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace for his role in Bahrain’s pro-democracy movement, ...

On March 13, human rights activist Tolekan Ismailova was taken in for questioning by officers from the Bishkek City Main Internal Affairs Directorate.

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the ...

As journalist and human rights defender Irfan Mehraj marks three years in arbitrary detention tomorrow, we the undersigned ...

We, civil society across the globe - including the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OMCT-FIDH) ...

Four years after the murder of the Nasa indigenous leader José Miller Correa, former councillor of the Association of ...

Around the world, women human rights defenders play a crucial role in exposing abuses, supporting victims and survivors, and challenging impunity.

Rowena Legaspi, Executive Director of the Children’s Legal Rights and Development Center in the Philippines, partner of OMCT and SOS-Torture ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights, together with the undersigned organisations, strongly urges the Central Jakarta District Court ...

The assassination of Yanar Mohammed , a prominent Iraqi feminist and President of the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), on 2 March 2026 ...

Resources / Statements / Iran: Over 30 NGOs raise alarm over dire situation for detained human rights defenders amid rising protest death toll 15 January 2026 – As mass repression of protests and ...

Fifty years have passed since Morocco’s military occupation of Western Sahara, yet the Sahrawi people remain deprived of their inalienable right to self-determination, in blatant violation of ...