World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)
Organisation mondiale contre la torture
Organización Mundial contra la Tortura
Weltorganisation gegen die Folter
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Contact Details
URL: http://www.omct.org/
Blog: http://blog.omct.org/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/omctorg
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorldOrganisationAgainstTorture/
Founded
1985 Geneva Switzerland
History
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Fight against torture, summary executions, enforced disappearances and all other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
Events
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Panel member of: E-XM1572 - Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice (IPJJ). Links with: E-XE6050 - Committee Against Torture (CAT); E-XE6009 - Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW); E-XE1444 - Committee on the Rights of the Child; E-XE0429 - Human Rights Committee (CCPR); E-XE3382 - UNDP; E-XE3016 - UNHCR; E-XE0199 - United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR).
- Accredited by: United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV)
Relations with Non-Governmental Organizations
- Member of: Child Rights Connect
- Member of: Child Rights International Network (CRIN)
- Member of: Communitas International
- Member of: Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO)
- Member of: Consortium of Minority Resources (COMIR)
- Member of: ETO Consortium (ETOs)
- Member of: EuroMed Non-Governmental Platform
- Member of: EuroMed Rights
- Member of: Human Rights and Democracy Network (HRDN)
- Member of: International Campaign to Ban Landmines - Cluster Munition Coalition (ICBL-CMC)
- Member of: International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net)
- Member of: International NGO Platform on the Migrant Workers' Convention (IPMWC)
- Member of: NGO Committee on the Status of Women, Geneva
- Member of: Right to Food and Nutrition Watch Consortium
- Member of: World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
- Cooperates with: Fundación Henry Dunant América Latina (FuHD - AL)
- Cooperates with: REDRESS
- Links with: Amnesty International (AI)
- Links with: Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT)
- Links with: Caritas Internationalis (CI)
- Links with: Commission for the Defense of Human Rights in Central America
- Links with: Derechos Human Rights (Derechos-hr)
- Links with: Equipo Nizkor
- Links with: Franciscans International (FI)
- Links with: Geneva International Academic Network (GIAN)
- Links with: End Corporal Punishment
- Links with: International Organization for the Right to Education and Freedom of Education
- Links with: International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT)
- Links with: International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers Associations (IUF)
- Links with: Kataliko Action for Africa (KAF)
- Links with: Quaker Peace and Social Witness (QPSW)
- Links with: Servicio Paz y Justicia en América Latina (SERPAJ-AL)
- Links with: Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition (WHRD)
- Member of: ProtectDefenders.eu
Publications
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UN Sustainable Development Goals **
UIA Org ID
XF0854
** UN SDGs are linked to the subject classification.
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