France
French police used excessive force during sometimes violent demonstrations since late 2018, causing injuries to protestors who were not engaged in violence. An April 2019 protest law risks undermining the right to freedom of peaceful assembly. The government failed to pursue necessary reforms to tackle discriminatory police identity checks. Asylum seekers and migrants sometimes face police abuse. Flawed age assessments of unaccompanied migrant children exclude many from care. Counterterrorism powers remain open to abuse. A November 2017 security law grants the authorities emergency powers without judicial safeguards that undermine the rights to liberty, freedoms of movement, association, expression, privacy and security.
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France: Children Left in Limbo despite COVID-19
Unaccompanied Migrant Children Deprived of Basic Services in Marseille and Gap
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France: Police Crowd Control Methods Maim People
Review Use of ‘Instant’ Tear Gas Grenades and Rubber Projectiles
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Time to Stop Ethnic Profiling in France
Organizations Initiate Procedure to Push for Reforms to End Widespread Abuses
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France: End Systemic Police Discrimination
Civil Society Organizations File Class Action Challenging Ethnic Profiling
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Mali/France: Investigate French Airstrike Killing 19
Credible, Impartial Inquiry Needed into Alleged Civilian Deaths
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France Should Act to End Violence, Harassment at Work
New Human Rights Watch Campaign Urges Hastening Reforms
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France: Dissolving Anti-Discrimination Group Threatens Rights
Government’s Misguided Move Part of Security Drift Endangering Liberties
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In a Year of Pandemic and Pain, Women Fight Back
As domestic violence rates soar in Europe under COVID-19 restrictions, women’s groups protest government inaction from Poland to Turkey.
