During the 82nd Session of the Committee Against Torture (CAT) on Thursday, 24 April, and Friday, 25 April 2025, the CAT ...

Despite 175 countries ratifying the UN Convention Against Torture, this grave violation of human rights persists in prisons, public assemblies, armed conflicts, and daily police interventions. Torture ...

Resources / Reports / Burundi : Torture, Enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings persist despite the State's commitments Ten Burundian civil society organisations, under the coordination of ...

The Observatory has been informed about the ongoing judicial harassment of Mr. Ssuuna James, a cyberactivist and human rights defender, founder and Executive Director of Freedom Hive Uganda, an ...

Under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), no child should ever be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment (Article 37). Yet the ...

Please accept the warmest greetings from the undersigned human rights organisations. We are writing to express our concern about the recent acts of persecution and criminalisation directed by the ...

During the 82nd Session of the Committee Against Torture (CAT) on Wednesday, 23 April, and Thursday, 24 April 2025, the CAT ...

Ressources / Rapports / Burundi : Torture, disparitions forcées et exécutions extrajudiciaires persistent malgré les engagements de l’État Dix organisations de la société civile burundaise, sous la ...

Armel Niyongere, exiled Burundian lawyer and Secretary General of SOS-Torture Burundi, a member of the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) SOS-Torture network, continues to denounce human rights ...

On April 26, 2015, President Pierre Nkurunziza’s announcement of his candidacy for a third term—contrary to the Constitution—marked the beginning of a severe political crisis in Burundi. The citizen ...

April 22, 2025- In the Autonomous Regions of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, such as the Mayangna Sauni As Territory (TMSA, in Spanish) located within the Bosawás Biosphere Reserve, Indigenous human ...