National Police and Human Rights Training in Bangalore, India

In September 2017, PHRP conducted a training for colleagues from the Amnesty International National Office in Bangalore, India. Discussions were very vivid and reflected the important human rights issues at stake in India:

Ranging from the ordinary challenges in policing (including the dire working conditions for police officers in India), to law enforcement in situations of armed conflict or post-conflict, the handling of extremely large and angry protests, the (failure to ensure) protection of women and certain minority groups against crime, the politicisation of policing and its impact on the operational independence of police, as well as the manifold deficiencies of domestic legislation with regard to human rights (including provisions that foster generalized impunity for human rights violations committed by security forces).