Police and Human Rights Programme

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,…

Dutch Court allows racial profiling

The Netherlands: Decision to allow continued use of ethnic profiling “throws international human rights law out of the window”  22…

France: Systemic Police Discrimination Requires Reforms

Police in France engage in a longstanding and widespread practice of ethnic profiling that constitutes systemic discrimination, a…

Netherlands: We sense trouble: Automated discrimination and mass surveillance in predictive policing in the Netherlands

Around the world, police forces are experimenting with data and algorithms with the aim of anticipating and preventing crime. Law…

France: Class Action Lawsuit against Ethnic Profiling

Civil Society Organizations File Case With Council of State over Systemic Racial Discrimination (Paris, July 22, 2021) – France…

A flawed process: Revision of the Dutch use-of-force policies

In the Netherlands, AI is following some worrying developments with regards to the use of force policy and equipment used…

Policing Assemblies: Workshop with AI South Korea in Seoul

From 18 until 20 April 2016, PHRP conducted a workshop in Seoul, Republic of Korea, which was attended by 7…

Launch of Amnesty International’s report “Deadly Force: Police Use of Lethal Force in The United States”

The use of lethal force continues to make the headlines in the United States, since the public outcry on the…

Launch of Amnesty International’s report, Spain: The right to protest under threat

In April, the PHRP participated in the launch of the report Spain: The right to protest under threat …