By Fiona Gorton | Resources and Finance Officer
Thank you for the previous donation you made to the Omega Research Foundation through GlobalGiving. We’re pleased to be continuing our fundraising efforts with GlobalGiving and we greatly appreciate all donations we receive.
We used the money you donated to help us share our research about the trade and use of equipment used to commit human rights violations, including rubber bullets, handcuffs, electric shock weapons, and tear gas. Sharing 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. We also use our data to help journalists and human rights defenders more easily identify equipment used in torture, which can help survivors seek redress.
We are delighted to update you on the progress of our "Stop Torture" project as we near its conclusion. Over the few past months, our team has been collaborating with website developers to create Omega's new website through which we will be able to share our data. The new website promises to be an important resource for journalists, researchers, and human rights defenders, offering a wide range of data and visualisations including on the types of equipment used by law enforcement to commit human rights abuses, insights into arms fairs and the companies that attend them, as well as information and case studies on the abusive use of law enforcement and security equipment around the world. The redevelopment of our website will also provide a new mechanism for Omega to quickly and securely respond to specific requests for information from journalists and researchers.
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. As we prepare for the launch of these new resources, we would like to extend our deepest gratitude for your continued support and commitment to our shared cause.
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. We will continue to share details of our progress through these short reports, but we’re always happy to answer questions.
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