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Bursting grenade projectiles documented during 2023 May Day protests, Paris. Credit: Robin Ballantyne, Omega Research Foundation
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Theron v France (third party intervention)
May 2024
Police wearing gas masks in Hong Kong 2019 protests. Two officers are carrying a sign reading 'WARNING TEAR SMOKE'. Credit: Studio Incendo, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
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State violence against protesters: Perspectives and trends in use of less lethal weapons
May 2024
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Crowd Control Techniques: Perspectives on the Type and Use of Weapons by Police Around the World
December 2023
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
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HRIC, Omega, APCOF, Louise Finer, Michael Addo: submission to the UN Special Rapporteur’s thematic report on current issues and good practices in prison management
November 2023
Image of prison bars. Credit: Michael Coglan, Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/mikecogh/5997920696
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UATC: Joint submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on torture for her upcoming report on ‘Current issues and good practices in prison management’
November 2023
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Submission to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Re: Advisory Opinion on Firearms Industry and Human Rights Obligations
August 2023
United Nations General Assembly, Credit: GPA Photo Archive
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Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture on the UK’s regulatory framework governing the export of law enforcement equipment and weapons
July 2023
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture presenting her report to the UN in New York, 2023
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Supporting International Regulation of the Production and Trade of Law Enforcement Equipment to Help Prevent Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman,or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
April 2023
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“My Eye Exploded”: the Global Abuse of Kinetic Impact Projectiles
March 2023
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The manufacture, trade and regulation of law enforcement and security equipment in Brazil
September 2021
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New investigation: Exposing global misuse of police batons
September 2021
Police officer stands behind a compound wall in Bangkok, 2013. Credit: Yury Zhalin
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Universal Periodic Review of Thailand Submission
March 2021
police officer holding less lethal grenade launcher.
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Brazil: Technical Memorandum on the Regulation of the Use of Force in the Prison and Socioeducational Systems
February 2021
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Ending the Torture Trade: The path to global controls on the ‘tools of torture’
December 2020
Image of the Milipol Paris arms and security trade fair, 2019. Credit: Robin Ballantyne
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Review of EU Anti-Torture Regulation and its implementation
November 2020
Prison transport vehicle in Singapore, 2014
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Universal Periodic Review Submission Singapore
October 2020
Two tear gas grenades
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Lowering the risk – Curtailing the use of chemical irritants during the COVID-19 pandemic
September 2020
Credit: Kashfi Halford from London, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
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Omega submission on FOAA for women and girls
June 2020
Tear gas in Hong Kong, Credit: Studio Incendo, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
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Submission to OHCHR on the Use of Less Lethal Weapons during Assemblies
June 2020
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Factsheet on Tools of Torture in Indonesian Prisons
April 2020
Blackwater in Iraq Credit: Chuck Holton, https://www.flickr.com/photos/rangerholton/15245844288/in/photostream/
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Response to the Working Group on Mercenaries call for submissions
March 2020
Blackwater in Iraq Credit: Chuck Holton, https://www.flickr.com/photos/rangerholton/15245844288/in/photostream/
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Private military and security companies: training and equipment
July 2019
Turkish police, Gezi Park, 2013
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Universal Periodic Review Submission – Turkey
July 2019
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Contemporary development, promotion and use of remote control chemical irritant delivery mechanisms
May 2019
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