La Red SOS-Tortura es parte esencial de la OMCT y constituye en la actualidad la red global más importante que lucha por la erradicación de la tortura y que trabaja por la protección de las personas defensoras de los derechos humanos.
En sus comienzos, en 1985, la Red la conformaban 48 organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG). En la actualidad, son ya 200 organizaciones trabajando en más de 90 países de todo el mundo. Sus miembros presentan una gran diversidad en cuanto a tamaño, composición, recursos y modos de acción- Lo que tienen en común es su compromiso con la labor de documentar casos de tortura, ayudar a las víctimas, pedir justicia, propugnar reformas jurídicas y de políticas públicas y proteger las personas defensoras de los derechos humanos.
Aquí está la lista completa de miembros de la Red SOS-Tortura de la OMCT.
Para la Semana Mundial contra la Tortura, algunos de ellos nos enviaron una breve presentación de su trabajo:
Collectif des Associations Contre l'Impunité au Togo (CACIT), Togo
Changement Social Bénin, Bénin
Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), China
Comision Mexicana de Defensa y Promocion de los Derechos Humanos (CMDPDH), Mexico
Observatoire Congolais des Droits de l'Homme (OCDH), Congo-Brazzaville
Observatorio del Sistema Penal y los Derechos Humanos (OSPDH)/SIRECOVI, España
Rosa María, la madre de Ana Bustamante cree que su asfixia ocasional puede ser el resultado de ese momento en que Ana dejó de respirar mientras estaba en su útero en la tarde del 13 de febrero de 1982. Fue también el momento en que su padre Emil, un activista político, fue detenido y desaparecido por el ejército de Guatemala. Ana está decidida a recuperar la memoria de su padre, pero se encuentra con el silencio, la resistencia y el dolor. Ganadora de varios premios, entre ellos el Premio Especial del Jurado del Documental Iberoamericano en el Festival de Cine de Guadalajara y el Premio FIPRESCI y Mejor Película Extranjera premio del público del Festival Internacional de Cine de Buenos Aires (BAFICI) “La Asfixia” es un documento inquietante y profundamente personal de un país que aún no se reconcilia con su pasado.
Lamentablemente, este caso no es único, sino emblemático de una situación de impunidad generalizada y persistente en Guatemala. La falta de investigación, enjuiciamiento y sanción a los autores propicia un ambiente de impunidad que envía un mensaje según el cual la violencia puede ser tolerada, constituyendo un permiso tácito para que la violencia se repita. Y de hecho lo hace. Guatemala fue y sigue siendo uno de los países más violentos de América Latina y del mundo. Y aún con ello, las mujeres sobrevivientes como Rosa María, Ana y su hermana Flora, siguen buscando la manera de encontrar justicia. Es por ellas y para ellas, que la OMCT y la abogada guatemalteca Evelyn Recinos Contreras, presentamos su caso el pasado 19 de noviembre de 2020 ante el Comité de Derechos Humanos de la ONU. Ana y su madre han sido apoyadas también por el fondo de víctimas de la OMCT.
Ana Isabel Bustamante
Ciencias de la Comunicación, Documental de Creación y la Especialidad de Montaje ECAM. Trabaja como montadora de cine, video clips y series de televisión. La Asfixia es su primer largometraje, el cual recibió tres premios de post producción en el Festival de la Habana y el apoyo a la postproducción de Cinergia.
Tuvo su estreno mundial en el festival de la Habana y ha sido galardonada con el Premio Especial del Jurado en FICG México, Premio FIPRESCI en IFF Panamá y BAFICI Argentina donde también recibió el Premio del Público Mejor Película Extranjera.
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Human rights activist Azimjan Askarov was imprisoned in Kyrgyzstan in 2010 fora crime he says he did not commit. Ever since then his wife Khadicha has campaigned tirelessly for his release. Now she sees one last chance for justice in an appeal hearing at the Supreme Court. But as she prepares for the verdict, coronavirus is spreading across Kyrgyzstan, stopping Khadicha's prison visits and putting 69 year old Azimjan at risk. "Last Chance for Justice" is an extraordinary story of love, courage - and never giving up. “Last Chance for Justice” was commissioned by BBC series “Our World” and was globally broadcasted by BBC World News. UK-based audience can watch the film on the BBC iPlayer until February 2022.
Marina Shupac is an award-winning journalist, Human Rights practitioner and emerging self-shooting documentary filmmaker from Moldova. She was awarded the Senior Minority Fellowship with the UN Human Rights Office and the Sakharov Fellowship with the EU Parliament. Coming from an ethnic minority background and born in the small town Bessarabca, Marina is passionate about stories that diminish divisions between “us” and “them” and create solidarity among people.
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Tao Po’ is a monologue by award-winning theater actor and cultural activist Mae Paner also known as Juana Change. Tao Po is the result of several days of immersion trips and interviews of families and people affected by extra-judicial killings in the Philippines. It tells the untold heartbreaking stories behind the Duterte government’s “war on drugs.”
Mae Paner gives life to four characters, in four separate monologues: a photojournalist transformed by the brutality he witnesses after he is assigned to cover President Duterte's "war on drugs"; a Zumba instructor haunted by her husband's and son's ghosts, both victims of summary killings; a cop who lives the double life of law enforcer and lawless hit-man; and a young girl lighting candles in a Manila cemetery as she reminisces about acquaintances and loved ones victims of extra-judicial killings.
Tao Po is a monologue. Tao Po is a play of words. Tao Po is a human experience that wants to knock into people's hearts and ask the hard question: is there humanity left within us? It endeavors to plant the seeds of empathy to a wider audience and compel them into action through the art of performance.
Mae Paner aka Juana Change is a TV ad director, an activist, producer, author and an award-winning actress. She appeared in several TV series and movies. She was awarded Best Supporting Actress at the 2017 C1 Original Film Festival. As Juana Change, she represents different characters based on the current political climate in the Philippines. PETA, during its 50th anniversary in 2017, awarded her a citation for continuing its vision towards social justice for all and genuine change.
Monologues written by Maynard Manansala
Performance directed by Ed Lacson, Jr.
Please see "files" for more information about the team behind the production.
Tagalog with EN subtitles
En línea con su compromiso con la cultura del autocuidado y del bienestar de las personas defensoras de los derechos humanos, la OMCT ofrecerá ejercicios simples y guiados de mindfulness a un máximo de 20 participantes con el objetivo de facilitar la relajación y el descanso físico y emocional, ayudar a liberar el estrés y equilibrar la energía. Dado que el número de participantes es limitado, le rogamos que reserve su plaza con anterioridad.
Esta sesión se impartirá únicamente en inglés.
Room cover illustration: Daniel Liévano for Fine Acts
Prof. Nils Melzer is the Human Rights Chair of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. He is also Professor of International Law at the University of Glasgow. On 1 November 2016, he took up the function of UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Prof. Melzer has served for 12 years with the International Committee of the Red Cross as a Legal Adviser, Delegate and Deputy Head of Delegation in various zones of conflict and violence. After leaving the ICRC in 2011, he held academic positions as Research Director of the Swiss Competence Centre on Human Rights (University of Zürich), as Swiss Chair for International Humanitarian Law (Geneva Academy) and as Senior Fellow for Emerging Security Challenges (Geneva Centre for Security Policy), and has represented civil society in the Steering Committee of the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers.
In the course of his career, Prof. Melzer has also served as Senior Security Policy Adviser to the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, has carried out advisory mandates for influential institutions such as the United Nations, the European Union, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Swiss Federal Department of Defence, and has regularly been invited to provide expert testimonies, including to the UN First Committee, the UN CCW, the UNSG Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, and various Parliamentary Commissions of the European Union, Germany and Switzerland.
Ms Sahli-Fadel has been teaching law at the Law Faculty of the University of Algiers 1 since 1981, and at the Diplomatic Institute of International relations (IDRI) and at the National School of Magistrates (ENM) since 2000. She had been a lawyer at the Bar of Algiers from 1987 to 1994. She has been a member of the African Commission on Human Rights and Peoples since 2011. In this capacity, she is the African Union Special Rapporteur on Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, and a member of the Working Group on Death Penalty and the Working Group on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Between 2008 and 2014, Ms Sahli-Fadel was a member of the United Nations Working and Expert Group on People of African Descent.
Yahaya Badamassi, is a Sociologist and Civil Society Actor in Niger. He is currently the regional coordinator of Alternative Espace Citoyens (AEC) in the Zinder region. Since 2015 he has been involved in the fight to safeguard the rights of migrants in Niger. In December 2019 he integrated the Migration and torture working group in Africa newly established by OMCT. Since 2017 he has been preparing a doctorate in sociology at University Ouagadougou 1 Joseph Ki-Zerbo (Burkina Faso)
Esther Nabwire Waswa is a human rights activist working as the Head of Programs at the African Centre for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (ACTV) in Kampala, Uganda. She is passionate about advocating for the rights of the marginalized. She currently heads a team of 30 multidisciplinary professionals ranging from medical doctors, clinicians, nurses, physiotherapists lawyers, psychologists, social workers among others working towards holistically rehabilitating survivors of torture. She is a member of the Migration and torture working group established by OMCT.
Ms. Taubina has been working in the field of human rights since 1992. From the very beginning she was involved in the work of the Russian Research Center for Human Rights, since 1997 to 2011 she has been a director of the Foundation for Civil Society and since 2004 is a Director of the Public Verdict Foundation. The area of Ms. Taubina’s expertise is international human rights standards and mechanisms, human rights in the work of law enforcement bodies, including torture prevention, development of civil society organizations, NGO management, and evaluation.
Maite Parejo Sousa is a lawyer, member of the Madrid Bar Association, and, former vice president of the Spanish Association of Human Rights (APDHE).She is a member of the Migration and torture working group established by OMCT. She has focused in Criminal Law, International Criminal Law, universal jurisdiction and Human Rights. After concluding her degree at the University of Seville, she completed her academic training in Cambridge. She holds a DEA from the Complutense University of Madrid, where she specialized in International Criminal Law, with a final research paper consider the aims of the penalties imposed against those held responsible of international crimes. She has been a lawyer, exercising the private and popular accusation in the Spanish National Court, in the Tibetan Case. She has also worked in bringing cases before the European Court of Human Rights.
Stephanie Brewer is the Director for Mexico and Migrant Rights at WOLA. She advocates for policy improvements on both sides of the border to protect human rights and support the rule of law in Mexico, with a focus on public security, criminal justice, protection of migrant rights, and the prevention and punishment of torture, enforced disappearance, and other serious human rights violations.
Before arriving at WOLA, Brewer worked in Mexico for over 13 years at the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center (Center Prodh), including more than 11 years as Coordinator of its International Department.
She is a member of the General Assembly of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT).
Stege is an International University College of Turin (IUC), Faculty Member and Director of the IUC Clinical Legal Education Program. In 2017-2018, he was a Lecturer at the University of Pretoria Law Clinic (South Africa). He studied law in Germany, France, and Belgium. In addition to his role at the IUC, he is a practicing lawyer and member of the Italian and German bars. He is member of the Italian Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration (ASGI). Furthermore, he is a founding member and Executive Secretary of the European Network for Clinical Education (ENCLE), a Steering Committee member of the Global Alliance for Justice Education (GAJE), a member of the Italian Law Clinic Network and the Migration Law Network (Germany).
Moustapha Kemal Kebe is the Project Manager for the Senegalese NGO REMIDEV (Réseau Migration Développement) and the Loujna-Tounkaranké Collective for the Defense of the Rights of Migrants in the Maghreb and West Africa. Through his work he observes the impacts of migration and the barriers thereto on local communities. He speaks of thousands of young Senegalese who face a precarious future. He holds a master’s in international Cooperation and Multilingual Communication from Stendhal Grenoble University. He is a member of the Migration and torture working group established by OMCT.
Alexis Comninos is a Legal Adviser at the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT). His work focuses on law enforcement and human rights, in particular on the implementation of legal and procedural safeguards in the first hours of custody. Prior to joining APT, Alexis worked with the International Committee of the Red Cross. A Swiss/Greek national, he holds an LLM degree from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and an MA from Columbia University.