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This toolkit is designed to help activists, protest monitors, and human rights defenders collect evidence of violence or excessive use of force by security forces

In November 2023, investigators from Omega and Amnesty International French Section were granted access to monitor the Milipol international security equipment trade fair, then taking place in Paris, by the fair’s organisers, Civipol and Comexposium.

Manuel Rojas Boyan is a survivor of one of the darkest chapters in modern history. Confined underground in the pitch-black and tortured for his support of revolution against the military dictatorship of Bolivia in the 1970s, Manuel refused to give up the names of friends and very nearly paid with his life.

Former UN Special Rapporteur on torture Juan Méndez discusses the development of anti-torture tools and standards in the 40 years since the United Nation’s adoption of the Convention against Torture.

Civil society organisations from around the world call for a Torture-Free Trade Treaty. Omega is a member of the core organising group of the Torture-Free Trade Network.