Global Week
Against torture 2025
Many Voices, One Movement. #UnitedAgainstTorture
Join us for the Global Week Against Torture 2025, a worldwide online event organised by the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the SOS-Torture Network, in collaboration with United Against Torture Consortium - a consortium of six leading anti-torture organisations (OMCT, APT, IRCT, FIACAT, Omega Research Foundation, and REDRESS).
From 23 to 26 June 2025, survivors, activists, experts, and human rights defenders will come together in a powerful week of solidarity, learning, and action.
This year’s edition marks two important milestones: the 40th anniversary of the UN Convention against Torture and OMCT’s 40th year of fighting against torture - a moment to celebrate progress and confront persistent and emerging challenges.
Through shared knowledge, global solidarity, and collective action, we can build a world free from torture. Whether you are a survivor, activist, expert, or ally - your voice matters.
Stay United Against Torture. Stay Resilient.
Why Join?
- Learn and Strategise: Join over 30 free webinars, panels, and workshops - offered in English, French, and Spanish - tackling urgent issues such as police violence, impunity, and the protection of migrants.
- Access Groundbreaking Tools: Explore the first-ever Global Torture Index - an innovative resource to reveal the risk of torture in different countries, promote transparency, and empower advocacy.
- Connect Globally: Join the largest global movement against torture, uniting over 200 organisations across 90+ countries.
- Amplify Voices: Hear directly from survivors and human rights defenders on the frontlines, and be inspired by their courage and calls for justice.
- Drive Change: Contribute to shaping advocacy, legal, and policy strategies to end torture, combat impunity, and protect human rights defenders.
In collaboration with the United Against Torture Consortium (UATC) and our network members
Events
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Speakers
Alejandra Vicente
Head of Law REDRESS
Leonardo Filippini
Human Rights Center Director CIPDH / University of Buenos Aires
Claudia Samoya
Vice-President OMCT
Sarah Belal
Executive Director Justice Project Pakistan
Gerald Staberock
Secretary General OMCT
Dr. Alice Edwards
Special Rapporteur on Torture United Nations
Lisa Henry
Secretary General IRCT
Veronica Filippeschi
Senior Advisor on Vulnerabilities APT
Mokhtar Trifi
Vice-President OMCT
Fotis Filippou
Trainer Mobilisation Lab Collective
Armel Niyongere
Secretary General SOS Torture Burundi
Clarisse Fagard
Human Rights Officer OMCT
Giuseppe Scirocco
HR Adviser OMCT
Claudia Martin
Co-Director AUWCL Academy on Human Rights
Charlotte Mancini
Human Rights Adviser OMCT
Carin Benninger-Budel
Deputy Secretary General OMCT
Elçin Türkdoğan Dilbirliği
Sub-grant Coordinator IRCT
Eugenia Andreyuk
Co-Head of OMCT-Europe OMCT
Maryia Kvitsinskaya
Human Rights Adviser OMCT
Caroline Cunha Farias
Member State Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture of Rio de Janeiro
Christopher Siegersma
Chief Executive Officer Correction Services Agency, Malta
Andrea Casamento
President Asociación Civil de Familiares de Detenidos (ACIFAD)
Paula Salvo
President Humanas
Mohammad Asghar Surush
Consultant OMCT
Sayed Hussain Anosh
Program Manager CSHRNAnastasia Pantielieieva
Head of the International Crimes Documentation Department MIHRDaniel Felipe Echeverry
Comité de Solidaridad por los Presos Políticos Colombia
María Luisa Aguilar Rodríguez
Deputy Director Centro Prodh
Gina Romero
Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of assembly and of association UN
Ana Racu
UATC Working Group on torture and other ill-treatment in the context of protests and other assemblies UNCAT
Anny Modi
Executive Director AFIA MAMA RDC
Wangechi Grace Kahuria
Executive Director Independent Medico Legal Unit (IMLU)
Jeanne d'Arc Zaninyana
Executive Director MFFPS
Marthe Coulibaly
Executive Director CIDDH
Zainab Malik
SAME network
Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam
Director Iran Human Rights
Anup Surendranath
Executive Director The Square Circle Clinic, NALSAR
Duaa Dhainy
Researcher European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights (ESOHR)
Ambika Satkunanathan
Chairperson Neelan Tiruchelvam Trust
Noelle Mouawad
Project Coordinator Restart Lebanon
Carmen Hamady
Project Coordinator Restart Lebanon
Dr Rebecca Shaw
Researcher Omega Research Foundation
Dr Michael Crowley
Researcher Omega Research Foundation
Sahar Francis
Director Addameer
Mohamed Lotfy
Executive Director ERCF
Khalid Ibrahim
Executive Director GC4HR
Cecilia de Armas Michelis
Global Torture Index Coordinator OMCT
Join over 1000 experts and activists this June for the Global Week Against Torture, a four day online experience in multiple languages to foster resilience and strengthen the anti-torture movement.