Omega Research Foundation

The Omega Research Foundation (Omega), a UK-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) providing rigorous, objective, evidence-based research on the manufacture, international trade, and use of military, security and police equipment around the world. Such technologies range from small arms and light weapons to large weapon systems; from policing technologies and prison equipment to equipment used for torture.

Omega is the only NGO that systematically monitors the global trade in equipment that has no purpose other than torture or other ill-treatment, or that are frequently misused for such purposes. Omega monitors this trade and investigates cases to uncover the entire ‘supply chain’ from production of equipment; methods of promotion and supply; to the use of equipment in specific cases of torture and other human rights violations.

Omega's aim is that human rights and international humanitarian law violations are not committed or facilitated by people using this equipment.

The Omega Research Foundation is actively engaged with the EU’s human rights policies and initiatives, with a particular focus on the EU’s policy to combat torture, other ill-treatment and the death penalty in third countries, including through the promotion of national, regional and international measures to regulate the trade in goods used for such serious human rights violations.

The Omega Research Foundation has worked with the European Commission, the European Parliament and individual EU Member States to:
• Facilitate the creation of the EU Anti Torture Regulation (Regulation (EC) 1236/2005), advised on subsequent revisions of this instrument (the most recent iteration being Regulation (EU) 2019/125), and continues to provide advice on further strengthening of the Regulation and its implementation by all EU Member States;
• Facilitate development by the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers of a politically binding instrument and associated implementation measures on trade in goods used for torture and the death penalty, and support implementation of this Recommendation by all CoE member States (including all EU Member States), encouraging synergy between the EU and CoE to this end;
• Facilitate formation and development of the Alliance for Torture Free Trade (current membership over 60 States in all regions), promoting international controls on trade in goods used for torture and the death penalty;
• Facilitate support for adoption of the 2019 UN General Assembly Resolution A/73/L.94, Towards torture-free trade; and of the ongoing UN process examining the feasibility, scope and parameters for international standards on ‘torture-free trade’.

https://omegaresearchfoundation.org/

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We have five individual staff members who regularly engage as part of their role with European institutions or work on addressing the 'torture trade'. Although the time allocation varies, two staff members spending upto 50% of their time involved in these activities, with the other three staff spending less. A small number of other staff may also be involved on a more occasional basis.

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