Activities & publications

Publication

Kinetic Impact Projectiles (KIPs) in law enforcement

Responding to the frequent misuse across the globe of kinetic impact projectiles, commonly known as rubber bullets, today Amnesty International…

Publication

Striking weapons in law enforcement

Recent footage of police in India attacking protesters and detainees with batons highlights the urgent need for law enforcement agencies…

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Chemical irritants in law enforcement

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

Publication

PHRP Expert Meeting on Predictive Policing

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

Policing

Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism

The present report illuminates the ways in which counter-terrorism and security are frequently used to provide political and legal justifications…

Policing

Amnesty International launches global campaign to confront unprecedented worldwide threat to the right to protest

The right to protest is under unprecedented and growing threat across all regions of the world, Amnesty International said today,…

Policing

Report of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of assembly and association on peaceful protest in crisis situations

This report, to be presented at the 50th session of the Human Rights Council in June 2022, examines key…

Policing

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

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

Report

Nicaragua: A cry for justice: Five years of oppression and resistance

Nicaragua is experiencing a grave human rights crisis characterized by a crackdown on protest and constant attacks on political dissidents,…

Report

Iran: They are shooting brazenly: Iran’s militarized response to May 2022 protests

This research briefing documents how Iranian security forces used unlawful force, including live ammunition, birdshot, teargas and watercannon, to crush…

Report

Protect the Protest! Why we must save our right to protest

Amnesty International has long worked to protect and expand the power of protest in defending and promoting human rights. For…

Report

Iran: In death’s waiting room: Deaths in custody following deliberate denial of medical care in Iran’s prisons

This briefing documents how Iranian officials are committing shocking violations of the right to life by deliberately denying ailing prisoners…

Report

Sri Lanka: Still no answers: An update on the rights of victims of enforced disappearances in Sri Lanka

Victims of human rights violations in the context of the war and its aftermath, bravely continuing their quest for answers,…

Report

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

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

Report

Living Ghosts: The devastating impact of enforced disappearances in Pakistan

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

Report

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

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