Posts Tagged ‘Social Protests’
Police abuse with less lethal weapons in protests: our complaint before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Dejusticia, along with 22 international organizations, presented a report at a hearing in Washington, D.C., before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, addressing the excessive use of force and human rights violations in social protests.
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Confronted with the violence in the protests, the government and political leaders, as well as social leaders, must first promote the de-escalation, putting human rights at the center of the crisis management.
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