Omega Research Foundation

02/06/2026

✨ It's & we want to acknowledge the enormous impact of our student volunteers & interns over the past year.

🤝 Thank you all so much for your commitment to human rights & your support of our work!

01/06/2026

Law enforcement officials are required to make rapid decisions on the use of force in dynamic and uncertain situations. Join us on Wednesday to discuss police accountability, integrity, oversight, & use of force for professional policing. 👇

📣 Side event to the 35th Session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice organised by Brazil with the UNODC Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Section

⏰ Wednesday, 3 June 2026, 15.00-16.00 CET

💻 Hybrid – in person & online

🔗 Register here: 7e235354-736f-449a-81e4-9f8b4c56c37b@0f9e35db-544f-4f60-bdcc-5ea416e6dc70" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/7e235354-736f-449a-81e4-9f8b4c56c37b@0f9e35db-544f-4f60-bdcc-5ea416e6dc70

29/05/2026

📢 Peaceful protests worldwide are increasingly met with excessive force and the misuse of police weapons that silence dissent and cause serious harm.

To support those documenting and challenging these abuses, we’ve launched our ‘Guidance Note on Addressing the Misuse of Police Weapons in Protests’ — now available in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic.

🎥 This video explores how the guide helps monitors and human rights organisations:
🔹 Identify commonly used police weapons and equipment
🔹 Document misuse safely and effectively
🔹 Understand relevant legal standards
🔹 Turn evidence into accountability

Designed for civil society organisations, National Human Rights Institutions, National Preventive Mechanisms, healthcare professionals, and protest monitors, the guide is a practical tool to help protect the right to peaceful assembly.

🌍 Access the guide in multiple languages and help strengthen monitoring and accountability efforts worldwide.

👉 Watch the video
🔗 Download the guide: https://omegaresearchfoundation.org/reports/challenging-repression-a-guide-to-addressing-the-misuse-of-police-weapons-in-protests/



Redress OMCT FIACAT International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims Association for the Prevention of Torture

29/05/2026

28/05/2026

📣 We join other members of the civil society Network in welcoming the publication by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Alice Edwards, of her Recommendations for a Torture-Free Trade Treaty.

🪧 This paper comes at a time when the global market for law enforcement equipment is growing and cases of misuse of this equipment – in protest, on the streets, in places of detention and elsewhere – continue to be documented worldwide.

🔗 Read the Network’s full statement: https://omegaresearchfoundation.org/news/torture-free-trade-network-welcomes-the-un-special-rapporteur-on-tortures-vision-for-a-torture-free-trade-treaty/

🔗 Read the Special Rapporteur's Recommendations:https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/issues/torture/sr/srt-tftt-qa-may-2026.pdf

27/05/2026

📆 Save the date! Join us in discussing police accountability, integrity, oversight & use of force next week!

📣 Side event to the 35th Session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice organised by Governo do Brasil with the UNODC - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Section

⏰ Wednesday, 3 June 2026, 15.00-16.00 CET

💻 Hybrid – in person & online

🔗 Register here: 7e235354-736f-449a-81e4-9f8b4c56c37b@0f9e35db-544f-4f60-bdcc-5ea416e6dc70" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/7e235354-736f-449a-81e4-9f8b4c56c37b@0f9e35db-544f-4f60-bdcc-5ea416e6dc70

27/05/2026

🤝 It is International Week of the Disappeared. Together with human rights organisations from around the world, we call on the Government of Bangladesh to ensure truth, justice, and reparation for victims of enforced disappearances and their families.

Among our list of recommendations, we call on the Government of Bangladesh to:
➡️ Enact comprehensive legislation criminalising enforced disappearance
➡️ Ensure access to justice and comprehensive reparation
➡️ Provide legal recognition of the status of missing persons and protection to victims’ families
➡️ Withdraw all fabricated cases against victims of enforced disappearance and release those wrongfully detained

🔗 Read the full joint statement: https://omegaresearchfoundation.org/news/bangladesh-ensure-justice-reparation-for-victims-and-guarantees-of-non-recurrence-of-enforced-disappearances/



OMCT

A joint statement on the occasion of the International Week of the Disappeared 2026

21/05/2026

🤝 We were pleased to have been represented by Nyari Pariola – a member of our Network of Experts – at the recent regional conference organised by our colleagues, FIACAT & ACAT- Côte d'Ivoire.

📣 Nyari has shared some of her initial thoughts on the discussions held during the conference, which you can read on our website! https://omegaresearchfoundation.org/news/justice-denied-why-africas-over-reliance-on-imprisonment-puts-the-poor-at-risk-of-torture/

✨ Our huge thanks to FIACAT & ACAT Côte d’Ivoire for organising a really great event & facilitating such important conversations.

🔗 Nyari is a member of Omega’s Network of Experts – the members of our Network bring specialist knowledge on issues of strategic importance to our work & we are grateful for their advice and input. Learn more about the Network on our website: https://omegaresearchfoundation.org/who-we-are/network-of-experts/

Nyari Pariola is a member of Omega’s Network of Experts. She is a human rights lawyer, peace and security scholar, and anti-torture expert. Nyari recently represented Omega at a Regional Conference organised by our UATC partner FIACAT and ACAT Côte d’Ivoire. Here, she shares some of what was di...

12/05/2026

📣 New report from our Network colleagues, Physicians for Human Rights!

🪧 ‘Tools of Repression: How US Law Enforcement Escalated the Use of Three Weapons to Crack Down on Immigration Protests’ examines use of three types of weapons in policing US protests in 2025-2026.

🔗 Learn more: :

Drawing on four decades of research on the health and human rights harms of CCWs, a team of PHR experts have documented injuries from these weapons and identified the prominent role certain lesser-known CCWs have played in policing U.S. protests throughout 2025 and 2026.

12/05/2026