OUR ACTIVITIES

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  Americas: Amnesty International launches five strategies for holding police to account

  To end the rampant impunity for human rights violations committed by police across many parts of Latin America and Caribbean, ...

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  Thematic work

  Amnesty International releases 30 rules to curb the use of chemical irritants by police

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  Training & Workshops

  Third Police and Human Rights Training in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  Country work

  France: Class Action Lawsuit against Ethnic Profiling

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OUR PUBLICATIONS

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  Chemical irritants in law enforcement

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  Across the world, from the streets of Thailand to Philadelphia (USA), from Greece to Chile, the police continue to use…

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  PHRP Expert Meeting on Predictive Policing

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  On 20.-21. May 2019, the Police and Human Right Programme (PHRP) of Amnesty International Netherlands held an expert meeting on…

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  Projectile electric-shock weapons: An Amnesty International position paper

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  Projectile electric-shock weapons (PESWs) have the potential to cause serious injury or even death. Thus, whilst this weapon may have…

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  Short paper series no 4: Police and human rights defenders

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  In 2018, PHRP finalised the fourth paper of the short paper series on police and human rights defenders. Across the world, more and more human rights defenders focus on policing related issues or come into contact with police while carrying out their human rights activities.

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS

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  Venezuela: Hard-hitting UN report backs claims of crimes against humanity and identifies possible perpetrators

  Policing

  The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela, created by the UN Human Rights Council in September 2019, presented its conclusions…

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  Philippines: ICC launches probe into deadly “war on drugs”, seeks to end impunity

  Policing

  Responding to the International Criminal Court (ICC) pre-trial chamber’s announcement that it has opened an investigation into the killings during…

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  Artificial intelligence risks to privacy demand urgent action – Bachelet

  Policing

  GENEVA (15 September 2021) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Wednesday stressed the urgent need  for…

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  UN experts call for an end to police brutality worldwide

  Policing

  Independent United Nations human rights experts* issued the following joint statement, to express their alarm at what they describe as…

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

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  Colombia: Shoot on Sight: Eye Trauma in the Context of the National Strike

  Rapport Engels

  Colombia: Excessive force by riot police during National Strike left more than 100 people with eye trauma Violence and repression…

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  Living Ghosts: The devastating impact of enforced disappearances in Pakistan

  Rapport Engels

  Living Ghosts, documents how enforced disappearance – in which state agents deny holding an individual or refuse to provide information…

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  Xenophobic machines: Discrimination through unregulated use of algorithms in the Dutch childcare benefits scandal

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  Social security enforcement agencies worldwide are increasingly automating their processes in the hope of detecting fraud. The Netherlands is at…

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  Sri Lanka: From burning houses to burning bodies: Anti-Muslim violence, discrimination and harassment in Sri Lanka

  Rapport Engels

  Sri Lanka’s Muslim community have faced incidents of violence, discrimination and harassment for decades. Most recently, since 2013, there have…

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  Chile: Criminal liability of commanders for omission in connection with crimes committed during the social unrest

  Rapport Engels

  Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to analyse the criminal liability for omission of the authorities and commanders…

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  Netherlands: Still no Safety: Venezuelans denied protection in Curaçao

  Rapport Engels

  Since Amnesty lnternational’s initials report in 2018, the rights of Venezuelans who have fled to Curaçao are still violated. They…

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  Afghanistan: The fate of thousands hanging in the balance: Afghanistan’s fall into the hands of the Taliban

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  The Taliban have attempted to portray to the world that they will respect human rights- however the ground reality is…

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  France Police Violence: A new report by Amnesty International highlights abusive and illegal use of force during the Teknival rave in Redon, in June 2021

  Rapport Engels

  As this week, the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, closes the Beauvau security consultations, which aim to…

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This database is an initiative of the Police and Human Rights Programme (PHRP) of the Dutch Section of Amnesty International.

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