PHOTO BY LUIS ROBAYO / AFP; INTERVENED WITH CRAYON, AQUARELLE AND TEXTS BY MARCELO BRODSKY, 2021
PROTEST TOOLKIT
Protests are where State and citizens meet. Too often – in dictatorships and democracies – they end in police brutality that can amount to torture and other ill-treatment. That’s why the IRCT, the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley , and Omega Research Foundation have produced a Protest Toolkit to empower protesters, activists, and human rights defenders to collect high quality evidence of unlawful violence by security forces.
Designed to be easy to use and with eye-catching images, the Toolkit consists of an Illustrated Guide and a Documentation Form which are available in nine languages: English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian, Bengali and Farsi.
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Who should use the Toolkit and why?
The Toolkit is intended for use by protesters, activists and civil society organisations. It has been developed by leading forensic experts at the IRCT, the Independent Forensic Expert Group (IFEG), the Human Rights Centre at the University of California, Berkeley, the School of Public Health, and Omega Research Foundation based on their extensive experience in the field of torture investigation and documentation. The Toolkit is therefore an excellent way in which individuals who have suffered police brutality can accurately document those acts to produce a strong evidence base to advocate for accountability for perpetrators.
