Created in 1985, the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) is today the main coalition of international non-governmental organisations (NGO) fighting against torture, summary executions, enforced disappearances and all other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. With 311 affiliated organisations in its SOS-Torture Network and many tens of thousands correspondents in every country, OMCT is the most important network of non-governmental organisations working for the protection and the promotion of human rights in the world.
Based in Geneva, OMCT’s International Secretariat provides personalised medical, legal and/or social assistance to hundreds of torture victims and ensures the daily dissemination of urgent appeals across the world, in order to protect individuals and to fight against impunity. Specific programmes allow it to provide support to specific categories of vulnerable people, such as women, children and human rights defenders. In the framework of its activities, OMCT also submits individual communications and alternative reports to the special mechanisms of the United Nations, and actively collaborates in the development of international norms for the protection of human rights.
OMCT enjoys a consultative status with the following institutions: ECOSOC (United Nations), the International Labour Organization, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, and the Council of Europe.
For more information, please contact Miguel Martín Zumalacárregui.
OMCT Alerts
- Guatemala: Intimidación y amenazas contra Aura Lolita Chávez y otros integrantes del Consejo de Pueblos K’iche’ (CPK)
Urgent Interventions | Human rights defenders | Guatemala
- Bahrain: Harassment of various human rights defenders, including excessive use of force, ill-treatment and torture in custody
Urgent Interventions | Human rights defenders | Bahrain
- Bahrain: UN Member and Observer States should call on Bahraini authorities to free human rights defender Nabeel Rajab
Urgent Interventions | Human rights defenders | Bahrain
- Azerbaijan: Joint NGO Letter to INTERPOL: Prevent misuse of INTERPOL in the case of Leyla and Arif Yunus
Urgent Interventions | Human rights defenders | Azerbaijan
- Burundi: Le viol comme Outil de Répression au Burundi.
Reports and Publications | Burundi
- Tanzania: Arbitrary arrest and subsequent release of Mr. Ole Ngurumwa Onesmo and Mr. John Baraka.
Urgent Interventions | Human rights defenders | Tanzania
- Chad: Dégradation de l’état de santé, liberté provisoire et poursuite du harcèlement judiciaire de Mr. Maoundoe Declador
Urgent Interventions | Human rights defenders | Chad
- Tanzania: Judicial harassment of Mr. Maxence Melo and Mr. Mike William
Urgent Interventions | Human rights defenders | Tanzania
- Hungary: Open letter to the members of Parliament: Call to vote down the proposed “Law on the Transparency of Organisations Receiving Support from Abroad”
Urgent Interventions | Human rights defenders | Hungary
- Joint Open Letter: GEORGIA/AZERBAIJAN: Abduction of journalist Afgan Mukhtarli
Urgent Interventions | Human rights defenders | Georgia, Azerbaijan