Monitoring protection mechanisms
International and regional conventional and non-conventional human rights mechanisms monitor States’ international commitments. OMCT activity to that respect aims at facilitating access of victims and local NGOs to the mechanisms and provides them with legal and practical support. OMCT submits alternative information (statements, reports, follow-up notes and oral briefings) and individual complaints to United Nations protection mechanisms and to the American, African and European ones. In the framework of the follow-up process, OMCT pays a particular attention to the effective implementation by the States of the recommendations adopted by the United Nations Treaty Bodies (UNTB). On those activities, OMCT works in close partnership with members of its SOS Torture Network and other reliable field partners. [Read more …]
May 4, 2020 | Assistance to victims, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Monitoring Protection Mechanisms, Rights of the Child, Violence against women | Reports and Publications
April 30, 2020 | Monitoring Protection Mechanisms, Press Releases | Statements | Côte d'Ivoire
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April 17, 2020 | Assistance to victims, Monitoring Protection Mechanisms | Urgent Interventions | China
April 9, 2020 | Assistance to victims, Monitoring Protection Mechanisms, Violence against women | Statements | Chad, Senegal
April 6, 2020 | Human Rights Defenders, Monitoring Protection Mechanisms | Statements | Philippines
April 1, 2020 | Human Rights Defenders, Monitoring Protection Mechanisms | Statements | India
March 31, 2020 | Statements | Turkey
March 19, 2020 | Assistance to victims, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Human Rights Defenders, Monitoring Protection Mechanisms, Press Releases, Rights of the Child, Urgent campaigns, Violence against women | Statements
March 1, 2020 | Statements | India