Activities & publications

Human Rights Council Virtual Side Event – Securitized COVID-19 Responses: Key Trends and Concerns

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Thematic work

PHRP Expert Meeting on Predictive Policing: In May 2019, PHRP held a 2-day expert meeting on predictive policing. The meeting…

Training & Workshops

Third Police and Human Rights Training in Amsterdam, The Netherlands In the beginning of December 2019, PHRP delivered for…

Country work

France: Systemic Police Discrimination Requires Reforms Groups Initiate Class Action Suit on Discriminatory Identity Checks Police…

PHRP Expert Meeting on Predictive Policing

Publication

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

Projectile electric-shock weapons: An Amnesty International position paper

Publication

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

Short paper series no 4: Police and human rights defenders

Publication

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.

Short paper series no 3: Police and Minority Groups

Publication

In 2016, PHRP finalized the third paper of the short paper series on Police and Minority Groups. Police have a…

Use of Force: Guidelines for Implementation of the UN Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials

Publication

In order to be able to fulfil their responsibilities of maintaining law, safety and public order and preventing and…

Short paper series no. 2: Police Oversight

Publication

In the beginning of 2015 PHRP has finalized a paper on police oversight (the second of the AINL PHRP short…

Short paper series no 1: ‘Policing Assemblies’

Publication

In 2013 the first Short paper was produced on the policing of assemblies. The research helped to identify a…

Understanding Policing – A resource book for human rights activists

Publication

This comprehensive resource book has first been published by AI Netherlands in 2006 as part of their Police and…

China: Draconian repression of Muslims in Xinjiang amounts to crimes against humanity

Policing

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim minority men and women subjected to mass internment and torture Millions of Muslims subjected to…

UK: Europe’s top court rules UK mass surveillance regime violated human rights

Policing

In a landmark judgment, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) today ruled that the…

European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights – Your rights matter: Police stops

Policing

A new paper by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) reveals the differences between people’s experiences with police stops.

Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe calls for greater protection of journalists during public assemblies

Policing

Journalism is a dangerous profession. Images of injured journalists on the fringes of protests have unfortunately become commonplace in Europe,…

Christof Heyns: A tribute to a giant of human rights

Policing

This weekend, respected human rights lawyer Professor Christof Heyns passed away, aged 62. Most recently, Professor Heyns…

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: Impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on the enjoyment of human rights around the world including good practices and areas of concern

Policing

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights presents an update on the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic…

Yemen: Released and exiled: torture, unfair trials and forcible exile of Yemenis under Huthi rule

Rapport Engels

Since 2015, Huthi de facto authorities have launched a campaign of arbitrary arrests and detention against individuals exercising their right…

‘I wished I would die’- Syrian refugees arbitrarily detained on terrorism-related charges and tortured in Lebanon

Rapport Engels

Hundreds of Syrian men, women and children who found refuge from the Syrian conflict in Lebanon have been arbitrarily detained…

Forgotten behind bars: COVID-19 and prisons

Rapport Engels

The spread of COVID-19 in prisons and other detention facilities has thrown into stark relief systemic threats to health in…

Find more country reports in the PHRP resources database

Rapport Engels

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

Yemen: ‘God Only Knows If he’s Alive’: Enforced disappearance and detention violations in southern Yemen

Rapport Engels

Yemeni security forces that are backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as well as UAE troops operating in southern…

Sierra Leone: A force for good? Restrictions on peaceful assembly and impunity for excessive use of force by the Sierra Leone police

Rapport Engels

Over the past 10 years, peaceful protests have regularly been refused permission in Sierra Leone, particularly those organized by opposition…

Indonesia: “Don’t bother, just let him die”: Killing with impunity in Papua

Rapport Engels

Over the two decades since Indonesia’s 1998 reforms (Reformasi) began, successive governments of Indonesia have pledged to end human rights…

Nicaragua: Shoot to kill: Nicaragua’s strategy to repress protest

Rapport Engels

In response to social protests during April and May 2018, the Nicaraguan government adopted a strategy of violent repression not…