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 again for the donation you made to our project. We are using 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.
In our last update, we told you about the launch of our brand new 'Arms Fair Repository' which contains information about hundreds of arms and security trade fairs and the companies that exhibit at them. Since then, we have been working hard to add information about new and upcoming arms fairs to the repository as well as details of fairs and exhibitors from our extensive archive. Data in our archive includes information about 1000s of arms fairs dating from as far back as the 1970s right up to the present day. Once all of this data has been uploaded to the repository, the dataset will be the largest of its kind. 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, but recognise that this information is also useful to researchers, journalists, and human rights activists. Thanks to your donation all the data in our repository is now freely available to anyone interested in exploring and challenging the global arms trade. More information about Omega’s arms fair data is available via our website.
Omega staff continue to research the manufacture, trade and use of law enforcement and security equipment and we are 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.
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