Human rights defenders

Fighting for respect for human rights is a high-risk activity, and groups and individuals in more than 80 countries who commit themselves to this struggle are often targeted by State authorities and private groups. Human rights defenders are victims of threats, attacks, arrests, arbitrary detentions and acts of torture. Since its creation, OMCT has been a pioneer in the protection of human rights defenders by denouncing the repression to which they are subjected. In 1997, OMCT established the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders in partnership with the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH). This unique collaboration is based on the complementary approaches of the two organisations and makes full and profitable use of their respective NGO networks. In 2007, OMCT established « Defend the defenders », a sponsorship project with Swiss personalities aiming at mobilising public opinion, the only counterweight to the arbitrary power of States. [Read more…]

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Turkey:  Open letter: Concerns regarding the judicial harassment of physician and human rights defender Dr. Serdar Küni

January 15, 2021  |  Urgent Interventions  |  Turkey
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Turkey:  New law seriously threatens freedom of association and must be repealed

January 15, 2021  |  Urgent Interventions  |  Turkey
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Sudan:  Judicial harassment of women's rights defender Waad Bahjat

January 15, 2021  |  Urgent Interventions  |  Sudan
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Zimbabwe:  Arbitrary detention of Hopewell Chin’ono (alias Daddy Hope)

January 15, 2021  |  Urgent Interventions  |  Zimbabwe
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Venezuela:  Criminalización de Vannesa Rosales, defensora de los derechos sexuales y reproductivos

January 12, 2021  |  Urgent Interventions  |  Venezuela
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Guinea:  Ongoing arbitrary detention and judicial harassment of Oumar Sylla

January 12, 2021  |  Urgent Interventions  |  Guinea
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Tanzania:  Release of Tito Magoti, Mass Education Officer at the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHCR)

January 11, 2021  |  Urgent Interventions  |  Tanzania

Morocco:  Arbitrary detention of Maâti Monjib

January 8, 2021  |  Urgent Interventions  |  Morocco

Mexico:  Amenazas contra integrantes de la Red Ambiental del Valle de Jovel

January 8, 2021  |  Urgent Interventions  |  Mexico

Turkey:  Re-arrest of human rights lawyer Aytaç Ünsal

January 8, 2021  |  Urgent Interventions  |  Turkey

Morocco:  Communiqué : Encore une fois, l’arbitraire vient de frapper au Maroc.

January 7, 2021  |  Urgent Interventions  |  Morocco

Belarus:  Judicial harassment of Leanid Sudalenka, president of the Gomiel branch of the NGO "Legal Initiative"

January 7, 2021  |  Urgent Interventions  |  Belarus

Honduras:  Asesinato de los líderes indígenas Félix Vásquez y Adán Mejía

January 7, 2021  |  Urgent Interventions  |  Honduras

Burundi:  Release of the Iwacu journalists Egide Harerimana, Christine Kamikazi, Terence Mpozenzi and Agnès Ndiribusa

January 6, 2021  |  Urgent Interventions  |  Burundi

Viet Nam:  Sentencing of independent human rights journalists Pham Chi Dung, Nguyen Tuong Thuy and Le Huu Minh Tuan

January 5, 2021  |  Urgent Interventions  |  Viet Nam