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New CERD General recommendation No. 36 on Preventing and Combating Racial profiling New CERD General recommendation No. 36 on Preventing and Combating Racial profiling On 24 th November 2020, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination published its General recommendation No. 36 on The Police and Human Rights Programme (PHRP) of Amnesty International (The Netherlands) welcomes the new General recommendation which comes at a crucial moment in time, when discriminatory policing practices are increasingly being denounced across the world – from the Black-Lives-Matter-movement, t...

17 December 2020, 00:01 UTC Abusive policing and excessive reliance on law enforcement to implement COVID-19 response measures have violated human rights and in some instances made the health crisis worse, Amnesty International said today.  In a new briefing,  COVID-19 Crackdowns: Police Abuse and the Global Pandemic, the organization documented cases in 60 countries where law enforcement agencies committed human rights abuses in the name of tackling the virus. This includes cases where people were killed or severely injured for allegedly breaching restrictions, or for protest...