By Fiona Gorton | Resources and Finance Officer
We’re pleased to be continuing our fundraising efforts with GlobalGiving and we greatly appreciate
any and all donations we receive.
Thank you for the previous donation you made to our work. We used the money you donated to
help us share Omega’s research about the trade and use of weapons and equipment used to
commit acts of violence, including rubber bullets, handcuffs, electric shock weapons, and tear gas.
This information will help activists more effectively lobby to control the trade and use of tools of
torture, and allow legal professionals to better evaluate the legality of use of force incidents. Omega
staff also use the database to help journalists and human rights defenders more easily identify
equipment used in torture, where it came from, and risks associated.
We are continuing to update our ‘Arms Fair Repository’, launched last year in collaboration with
Campaign Against Arms Trade. The repository contains information about hundreds of arms and
security trade fairs and the companies that exhibit at them. At Omega, we use this data to monitor
the activity of arms companies, identify the launch of new and potentially abusive products, and to
expose gaps in existing laws and regulations. We also know that this data is useful for researchers,
journalists, human rights activists, and others interested in exploring and challenging the global
arms trade, which is why it is so important that we make it accessible. If you would like to learn
more, please get in touch.
Thanks to your donation, Omega’s arms fair data can now be freely accessed by anyone, either
directly via our repository hosted on Github or through our online data browser, which provides a
simple and interactive way to explore the insights that the data provides. More information about
Omega’s arms fair data is available via our website.
Along with colleagues at Amnesty International, Center for Victims of Torture (USA), and the
Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic (USA), Omega is at the centre of the
international campaign calling for international human rights-based controls on the trade in goods
used for torture (such as batons, pepper spray, and electric shock weapons). We are calling for the
United Nations to agree a Torture-Free Trade Treaty. You can learn more about our work on this
campaign here.
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Omega staff continue to research the manufacture, trade, and use of law enforcement and security
equipment and we are always exploring how other aspects of our data can also be made more
accessible.
Please see the GlobalGiving website, Omega’s own website, or get in touch with us (at
info@omegaresearchfoundation.org) to learn more about our plans for the future. Through short
reports, we will continue to share details of our progress, but we’re always happy to answer
questions.
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By Fiona Gorton | Resources and Finance Officer
By Fiona Gorton | Resources and Finance Officer
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