Section 4: Selected Further Resources
Searchable Online Databases:
• Association for the Prevention of Torture; Detention Focus. /www.apt.ch/detention-focus/en – a database on prison topics
and human rights standards. Designed for prison monitors, it combines analysis, norms, checklists and further readings and has
sections on ‘use of force’ and ‘means of restraint’.
• Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights; Weapons Law Encyclopedia. http://www.weaponslaw.
org/ - a compilation of information on the regulation of weapons under public international law.
• Mispo; www.mispo.org. - a databank containing thousands of images of military, security and police (MSP) equipment, updated by
photojournalists, photo agencies and human rights organisations. Arms trade researchers work to identify equipment displayed.
Register here; www.mispo.org/user/register?destination=comment%2Freply%2F1%23comment-form
• Omega Research Foundation; Visual Glossary of Military, Security and Police Equipment a glossary designed to help human rights
monitors, researchers and otherss recognise and accurately report on the types of equipment used. https://omegaresearchfoundation.
org/visual_glossary?search_api_language=en
Online Guides:
• Amnesty International (2005) Monitoring and Investigating Equipment used in Human Rights Abuses- a handbook on monitoring
and investigating MSP equipment www.amnesty.nl/content/uploads/2017/01/booklet_eng_equipment_0.pdf?x44743
• Association for the Prevention of Torture and Penal Reform International (2015) Instruments of Restraint: Addressing Risk Factors
to Prevent Torture and Ill-Treatment. www.penalreform.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/factsheet-5-restraints-2nd-ed-v5.pdf
. Provides practical guidance on how monitoring bodies can focus on instruments of restraint.
• Omega Research Foundation (undated) Introduction to Equipment Types https://omegaresearchfoundation.org/publications/
introduction-equipment-types. Condensed version of the Visual Glossary detailed above.
• Omega Research Foundation (2016) Guide to Taking Photos in the Field https://omegaresearchfoundation.org/sites/default/files/
uploads/Publications/20160125%20Guide%20to%20taking%20photos%20FINAL%20Update.pdf. A practical guide to taking
photos of military, security and police equipment.
• Omega Research Foundation (2017) Torture Tools Questionnaire https://omegaresearchfoundation.org/publications/torture-toolsquestionnaire - a guideline questionnaire for obtaining information from torture survivors on weapons and equipment used in
instances of torture or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
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