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18th February 2025
France: Hijab ban in all sports would violate human rights and target Muslim women and girls

2nd August 2024
Facial recognition in France, let’s act before it becomes a reality!

16th July 2024
France: Hijab bans in French sport expose discriminatory double standards ahead of Olympic and Paralympic Games

13th July 2023
France: Nahel shooting highlights need for overhaul of police firearms rules and an end to systemic racism in law enforcement

24th March 2023
France: Allowing mass surveillance at Olympics undermines EU efforts to regulate AI

South African police officers fire rubber bullet as they chase protestors in the streets of Johannesburg, on April 23, 2019 during a protest against the lack of service delivery or basic necessities such as access to water and electricity, housing difficulties and lack of public road maintenance. - Police and protesters exchanged volleys of teargas and stones in Johannesburg on April 23, 2019 after a suburb erupted into protest over public services ahead of polls on May 8. Dozens of residents in the working class Turffontein suburb blocked the main road through ward 55, burning tyres, mattresses and tree branches over allegedly unfair allocation of nearby new social housing. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP) (Photo by MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)

14th March 2023
Global: Dozens killed and thousands maimed by police misuse of rubber bullets

28th October 2022
Write For Rights 2022: Zineb Redouane – FRANCE: Hit in the face and killed by a tear gas grenade

Police in riot gear force people off a street as they protest the killing of Andrew Brown Jr. on April 27, 2021 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

23rd June 2022
20 rules for ending widespread misuse of police batons

17th January 2022
France/Germany: Small businesses want EU to get tough on Google and Facebook’s invasive advertising – new research

8th February 2021
France: Authorities silence dissent against controversial global security bill

21st June 2019
France: Acquittal of young man for showing compassion to refugees in Calais shows solidarity is not a crime

5th June 2019
France: Police harassing, intimidating and even using violence against people helping refugees

14th December 2018
France: Police must end use of excessive force against protesters and high school children

5th November 2018
France: Arrest warrants for Syrian officials an important step towards justice

25th September 2018
France: Criminal conviction for a tweet will have chilling effect on migrant rights defenders

13th July 2018
France: Acquittal of pensioner for showing compassion to children shows solidarity is not a crime

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