World Organisation Against Torture | OMCT
WEBTorture isn’t rare - it’s happening every day, in every country and this is what you can do to contribute to its demise. Keep reading to learn more about how you can help. Join our mission. OMCT works with 200 member organisations to end torture and ill-treatment, assist victims, and protect human rights defenders at risk wherever they are.
Who we are - OMCT
WEBWho. we are. The OMCT works with 200 member organisations to end torture and ill-treatment, assist victims, and protect human rights defenders at risk wherever they are. Together, we make up the largest global group actively standing up to torture in over 90 countries. We work to protect the most vulnerable members of our societies, including ...
Our network - OMCT
WEBThe SOS-Torture Network is at the heart of the OMCT and is the currently the most important global network striving to put an end to torture and protect human rights defenders. At the outset, in 1985, it was composed of 48 non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Today, its over 200 members work in over 90 countries all over the world.
Victim support - OMCT
WEBThanks to our Fund for Urgent Assistance for Victims of Torture, we are currently the only international human rights NGO providing direct, multi-dimensional urgent assistance to victims of torture anywhere in the world. In 2021, we have disbursed funds for the social, medical and/or legal support of 125 victims in six countries. In Rwanda, three refugees from Burundi, who fled after being ...
Committee Against Torture (CAT) - OMCT
WEBThe UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) monitors the implementation of States Parties’ obligations under the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The CAT was created in accordance to article 17 of the Convention against Torture. It is one of 10 treaty bodies attached to various human ...
Women - OMCT
WEBWomen are the object, in their own homes, of beatings, rape, incest, and traditional practices such as honour killings, dowry-related violence, genital mutilations, son preference, and early marriages. Certain groups of women are particularly vulnerable to violence, such as those belonging to a minority, indigenous women, refugees, and women ...
What we do - OMCT
WEBThe World Organisation Against Torture works with 200 member organisations to end torture and ill-treatment, assist victims, and protect human rights…
OMCT Strategic Plan 2021-2024
WEBThe OMCT's Strategic Plan 2021-2024 defines the organisation's primary framework for the coming four years. It sets out our overall vision for the future, together with our main programmatic goals and institutional targets. Convinced that we can achieve more by speaking out as a global anti-torture movement, the OMCT is mobilising and ...
Torture and the law - OMCT
WEBTorture is the infliction of extreme suffering upon men, women and children. It does not extract useful information, as people may give any answer to stop excruciating pain. Torture and other ill-treatment are about power relations and humiliation. They break people and their families. They brutalise societies by creating an atmosphere of fear ...
Migration - OMCT
WEBOne in 30 people in the world is a migrant. This is why the OMCT and its global SOS-Torture Network work together to protect migrants from torture. They conduct detailed research and make recommendations that go beyond the humanitarian consequences of forced displacement, to improve the protection of migrants against torture and ill-treatment.