🇺🇳 Last week, the #TortureFreeTrade Network conducted an advocacy mission during the #HRC61. We met with States, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Alice Edwards, & came together as a civil society Network calling for a Torture-Free Trade Treaty.

Learn about some of the ways we’ve pushed back against the forces that threaten fundamental rights & freedoms around the world: omegaresearchfoundation.org
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The #TortureFreeTrade Network is in the @rcw-wilpf.bsky.social Briefing Book for UN First Committee! Learn about the vital need for a treaty to stop the trade in equipment used for #torture, uphold #HumanRights, & #ProtectTheProtest:
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Regulate the trade in policing equipment now Ask your government to back a global treaty to keep equipment like tear gas and pepper spray from getting into the hands of abusive police forces.

#ProtectTheProtest #UnitedAgainstTorture #TortureFreeTrade

Join us, & sign the petition here: www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...

With members of the #TortureFreeTrade Network presenting the @amnesty.org petition on behalf of 251,178 people to the representatives of @austriaun.bsky.social, @denmarkun.bsky.social, @franceUN, @spainun.bsky.social, @swedenun.bsky.social, @swiss-un.bsky.social, @UK UN.

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On behalf of 251,178 people world wide @amnesty.org
with our partners from the Torture-Free Trade Network has just handed in this petition calling for a #TortureFreeTrade Treaty to the Ambassadors of the @euatun.bsky.social and @unmongolia

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Regulate the trade in policing equipment now Ask your government to back a global treaty to keep equipment like tear gas and pepper spray from getting into the hands of abusive police forces.

Did you know there are no international #HumanRights based controls on the trade in torture equipment?!

Sign the petition and join us in calling for governments to act: we need a binding #TortureFreeTrade Treaty now!

#ProtectTheProtest #UnitedAgainstTorture

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Tackling the trade in tools of torture: the path forward This side event will discuss how international trade restrictions on law enforcement equipment – a Torture-Free Trade agenda – can help prevent torture and other ill-treatment.

📣 Com a part de la campanya internacional i en el marc de la 80a assemblea de l'ONU, des d'Irídia exigim un #TortureFreeTrade i mesures concretes per prohibir el comerç d’eines utilitzades per torturar i reprimir.

🔴 Podeu seguir l’acte del pròxim 15/10 a les 15h: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k19...

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Big news from the @coe.int!
We join @amnestyeu.bsky.social in welcoming this progress towards #TortureFreeTrade!

Excellent to see 46 countries reiterate their support for the development of a legally binding Torture-Free Trade instrument.

Concrete progress.

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📢 @amnesty.org and @omegarf.bsky.social call on
@coe.int to fully implement these recommendations.

No member state should permit or benefit from the trade in pain and suffering.
#TortureFreeTrade

Regulate the trade in policing equipment now Ask your government to back a global treaty to keep equipment like tear gas and pepper spray from getting into the hands of abusive police forces.

📣It is time for a #TortureFreeTrade Treaty.

🪧Join us in demanding governments take action to regulate the trade in law enforcement equipment that is used for torture: www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...

#UnitedAgainstTorture #ProtectTheProtest

The past year had some important steps into building momentum for a #TortureFreeTrade Treaty! Check out the chapter by @verityc.bsky.social & Patrick Wilcken
to learn how to support this initiative in the #FirstCommittee: reachingcriticalwill.org/images/docum...

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Great news from the EU as it significantly strengthens its measures preventing the transfer of law enforcement equipment to those who would use it for torture & other ill-treatment.
🔗: omegaresearchfoundation.org/news/europea...
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European Union Significantly Strengthens Region-Wide Efforts to End the Torture Trade - Omega Research Foundation The United Against Torture Consortium strongly welcomes today’s action by the European Union significantly strengthening its region wide measures preventing the transfer of law enforcement equipment to those who would use it for torture and other ill-treatment. This major overhaul of the EU Anti-Torture Regulation is a crucial part of the EU’s actions to prevent torture and other ill-treatment across the globe.

🎉 Great news!
🇪🇺 With our #UnitedAgainstTorture partners, we welcome the EU significantly strengthening its measures preventing the transfer of law enforcement equipment to those who would use it for torture & other ill-treatment!
🔗: omegaresearchfoundation.org/news/europea...
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For #26June CVT joins survivors & partners worldwide to remind States that we urgently need a #TortureFreeTrade Treaty to control the trade in equipment used to suppress protests and abuse detainees around the world. Sign the petition now!
www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...

Regulate the trade in policing equipment now Ask your government to back a global treaty to keep equipment like tear gas and pepper spray from getting into the hands of abusive police forces.

As a member of the Torture-Free Trade Network, we join survivors & partners worldwide to remind States that we urgently need a #TortureFreeTrade Treaty to control the trade in equipment used to suppress protests & abuse detainees around the world.
Add your voice! www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...

Torture-Free Trade and the Fight Against Torture: Regional Action Although torture can be committed using many different tools, people are often tortured and ill-treated with specialist law enforcement equipment and…

📣 Tomorrow! With @cels-argentina.bsky.social & CSVR, we'll be discussing regional & international efforts to address the trade in tools of torture, including a #TortureFreeTrade Treaty: gwat.omct.org/events/30
#GlobalWeekAgainstTorture #40YearsUnitedAgainstTorture #UnitedAgainstTorture

Torture-Free Trade and the Fight Against Torture: Regional Action Although torture can be committed using many different tools, people are often tortured and ill-treated with specialist law enforcement equipment and…

Learn about how addressing the trade in law enforcement equipment is a vital part of #torture prevention. Join us & our colleagues at @cels-argentina.bsky.social & CSVR for a discussion on regional & international efforts, including a #TortureFreeTrade Treaty: gwat.omct.org/events/30

Supporting Torture-Free Trade & strengthening the anti-torture movement - Omega Research Foundation Under the United Against Torture Consortium, Omega was pleased to be able to provide small grants to seven civil society organisations to help further their work to sustain and develop support for nat...

Through the #UnitedAgainstTorture Consortium, we have provided small grants to some amazing organisations, supporting their work to strengthen the campaign for a #TortureFreeTrade Treaty. This week, we’ll profile each organisation. Can't wait?! Click here: omegaresearchfoundation.org/news/support...

Torture-Free Trade and the Fight Against Torture: Regional Action Although torture can be committed using many different tools, people are often tortured and ill-treated with specialist law enforcement equipment and…

📣 Learn about how addressing the trade in law enforcement equipment is a vital part of #torture prevention.
💻 Join us, @cels-argentina.bsky.social, & CSVR for a discussion on regional & international efforts, including a #TortureFreeTrade Treaty: gwat.omct.org/events/30
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The Shoreditch Declaration for a Torture-Free Trade Treaty - Omega Research Foundation

With civil society organisations around the world, we’re committed to working for a #TortureFreeTrade Treaty. Learn about the #ShoreditchDeclaration & join the campaign:
omegaresearchfoundation.org/what-we-do/t...
Not a civil society organisation? Sign the petition! www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...

Annual Report and Accounts 2024 - Omega Research Foundation Omega has published our Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31st March 2024.

📣New Annual Report now available! Learn more about our role in the #UnitedAgainstTorture Consortium, our work on the campaign for #TortureFreeTrade, the training we provided to prison & protest monitors, & lots more: omegaresearchfoundation.org/news/annual-...

Over a picture of a range of handcuffs, text reads: 'All around the world, law enforcement equipment is used to torture people at protests & in detention'

‘Standard’ law enforcement equipment – such as handcuffs & batons – is used all around the world in acts of #torture & other ill-treatment.
Let’s work together to stop these #HumanRights violations. #UnitedAgainstTorture #TortureFreeTrade
Learn more: omegaresearchfoundation.org

🕊️On #CAT40, survivors of torture from across the world demand that the international community takes immediate action to stop the production, sale, trade, & use of tools of torture.
📢We need a #TortureFreeTrade Treaty!
@amnesty.org @cvtorg.bsky.social
www.cvt.org/statements/j...

Text reads: Joint Declaration from Torture Survivors in Support of a Torture-Free Trade Treaty "If a torture-free trade treaty would spare even one person the horrors that we have experienced, it is worth any effort that doing so would require. World leaders can achieve this goal if they commit to it, and lives can be saved"

The 40th anniversary of the Convention Against Torture is tomorrow & survivors from around the world are calling for controls on the trade in equipment used for #torture & other ill-treatment.
It is time for a #TortureFreeTrade Treaty: www.cvt.org/statements/j...

As the Convention against Torture turns 40, survivors call for a torture-free trade treaty. We must ensure that goods designed solely for torture are banned.
Click here: bit.ly/SurvivorsDec...

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