Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
World Organisation against Torture |
| Acronym: |
OMCT
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| Legal status: |
International Organisation under Swiss Law
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| Website address: |
http://www.omct.org/
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Sections
| Section: |
III - Non-governmental organisations |
| and more precisely: |
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Gerald Staberock
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| Position: |
Secretary-General |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Ms
Guro Nilsen
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| Position: |
European Coordinator |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
8 rue du Vieux-Billard
P.O. box: 21
Geneva 8 1211
SWITZERLAND
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| Telephone number: |
(+41) 22 809 49 39 |
| Fax number: |
(+41) 22 809 49 29 |
| Other contact information: |
OMCT-Europe
19, rue du Marteau
1000 Brussels
Belgium
Phone/Fax : +32 2 218 37 19
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
Created in 1986, the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) is today the main coalition of international non-governmental organisations (NGO) fighting against torture, summary executions, enforced disappearances and all other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. With 297 affiliated organisations in its SOS-Torture Network and many tens of thousands correspondents in every country, OMCT is the most important network of non-governmental organisations working for the protection and the promotion of human rights in the world.
OMCT provides personalised medical, legal and/or social assistance to hundreds of torture victims and ensures the daily dissemination of urgent appeals across the world, in order to protect individuals and to fight against impunity. Specific programmes allow it to provide support to specific categories of vulnerable people, such as women, children and human rights defenders. In the framework of its activities, OMCT also submits individual communications and alternative reports to the special mechanisms of the United Nations, and actively collaborates in the development of international norms for the protection of human rights.
OMCT is committed to transparency about EU interest representation. OMCT believes that this register fails basic transparency standards and that it does not provide EU lobbying transparency. When registering, we have therefore chosen to give all relevant information that we consider necessary for lobbying transparency. A credible EU lobbying transparency register should include names of individual lobbyists and the issues that they try to influence, provide precise and comparable financial information on lobbying, and have effective sanctions to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the information disclosed. In an effort to arrive at a more objective way of calculating lobbying expenditures, we follow guidelines that result from consultations with public interest organisations, professional working on lobby trnasparency as well as experts of US lobby disclosure legislation. our registration is therefore providing a more comprehensive calculation of our expenses for activities that aim to influence the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions, and a list of those who, on behalf of OMCT, carry out such activities.
Our registration is based on the guidelines for transparent registration developed by the Civil Society Contact Group and ALTER-EU. Find the guidelines on http://www.act4europe.org/register or http://alter-eu.org
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
3
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Complementary information:
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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Human Rights policy, CFSP, Justice and Home Affairs, Development Policy: torture guidelines and EU policies to fight torture and ill-treatments, Human rights strategy review, Human rights country strategies, ENP review, Human rights dialogues, European parliaments work on human rights; Human rights defenders and the EU guidelines on human rights defenders
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- External Relations
- Foreign and Security Policy and Defence
- Home Affairs
- Justice and Fundamental Rights
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
39 |
| Number of member organisations: |
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| Member organisations (Number of members) : |
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| The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries): |
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Complementary information:
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OMCT is a global network of organisations. Please consult our website for information on our membership: www.omct.org/network/
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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OMCT Europe: Human Rights and Democracy Network, Council of Europe INGO forum, Fundamental Rights Agency Platform
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
01/2011
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12/2011
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Total budget:
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2,024,442
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€
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of which public financing:
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986,524
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€
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- from European sources:
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- Procurement:
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0
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€
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- Grants:
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602,140
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€
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- from national sources:
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237,612
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€
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- from local/regional sources:
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146,772
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€
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from other sources: |
1,037,918
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€
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- donations:
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528,129
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€
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- contributions from members:
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2,767
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€
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- Nongovernamental grants :
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507,022
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€
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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50000
€ - 100000
€
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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Following the guidelines of the EU Civil Society Contact Group and ALTER-EU, OMCT has calculated that it spent an estimated 60.300 € in 2011 on activities carried out with the objective of influcencing the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions.
List of donors in 2011:
> Non-governmental grants:
American Jewish World Service
Brot für die Welt
Catholic Committee against Hunger and for Development
Fondation de la Banque Pictet
Oak Foundation
> Governamental grants:
Germany
Liechtenstein
Switzerland
> Grants from international or intergovernmental organisations:
European Commission
United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture
> Cantonal grants (Switzerland):
Geneva
Schwyz
> Municipal grants (Switzerland)
Genève
Lausanne
Sion
Jussy
> Others
SOS-Torture network membership fees
Private donations
Club des Cent
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