Observers Training at Amnesty International Italy

From 15. – 17. March 2019, the Italian section of Amnesty International trained around 30 observers on the various aspects of monitoring assemblies. The training took place in the context of a project to observe assemblies across Italy over the coming months, in order to record potential human rights violations and issue recommendations to the authorities, including the police, on how to achieve greater human rights compliance.

PHRP joined the training to deliver a session on the international standards on policing assemblies and the use of force, covering general concepts such as the duty to facilitate and the importance of police appearance, as well as standards on dispersal and various less-lethal weapons used in crowd control. One of the main objectives was to sensitize the observers on what to look out for and capture, in case those measures will be used during the assemblies they attend.