Rebecca has been a senior researcher at Omega since 2019. She has a particular interest in national, regional, and international controls on the trade in tools of torture, including at the UN and in the European and African regional contexts. Rebecca represents Omega in the core organising group of the Torture-Free Trade Network. She has undertaken high-level advocacy on the issue of torture-free trade, including at the UN in New York and Geneva, and has worked to support the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture’s commitment to torture-free trade. Her research into the manufacture and use of law enforcement equipment has particularly examined the European and African contexts.
Rebecca currently leads on Omega’s advocacy work within the United Against Torture Consortium, as well as Omega’s public-facing communications.
She holds a PhD in International Relations, with a focus on the regulation of private military and security companies.
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