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Dismantling Detention

International Alternatives to Detaining Immigrants

The 94-page report “Dismantling Detention: International Alternatives to Detaining Immigrants,” examines alternatives to detention in six countries: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Spain, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. Human Rights Watch found that alternatives to detention such as case management services, can effectively address government interests in immigration enforcement while protecting migrants’ rights and often offering a range of other benefits.

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  • Briefing Paper for the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland

    The historic Good Friday Agreement states that the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland must work to ensure that future policing structures and arrangements result in a policing service that "operates within a coherent and co-operative criminal justice system, which conforms with human rights norms." This

  • To Serve Without Favor

    Policing, Human Rights, and Accountability in Northern Ireland

    Police conduct throughout the long conflict in Northern Ireland has given rise to serious allegations of human rights abuses.

  • Racist Violence in the United Kingdom

    The level of racist incidents reported to the police in the U.K. has increased dramatically over recent years. Between 1989 and 1996 the number rose more than 275 percent, from 4,383 to 12,199.

  • Continued Abuses By All Sides In Northern Ireland

    While paramilitary groups carry out punishment shootings and beatings, the government is responsible for the failure to ensure that police officers and soldiers are held accountable for the use of lethal force, unfair trials, and ill-treatment in detention, among other violations.

  • Threats to Press Freedom

    A Report Prepared for the Free Media Seminar Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

    The Free Media Seminar of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe is taking place at a critical time. First, because developments throughout the region suggest that protection for media freedoms fall well short of international standards.

  • Northern Ireland: Human Rights Abuses By All Sides

    Continuing human rights abuses in Northern Ireland include killings by paramilitary groups and security forces, street harassment by security forces, ill-treatment in detention, problems in obtaining a fair trial, the abandonment of normal policing in some troubled areas and harassment by paramilitary organizations.

  • Freedom of Expression in the U.K.

    Britain has historically been a society with great respect for the tradition of freedom of the press. In recent years, however, there has been a significant increase in restrictions on liberty.

  • Prison Conditions in the United Kingdom

    Prisoners in the U.K., which has the highest per capita rate of imprisonment in Western Europe, suffer from unsanitary conditions, extremely poor conditions for remand prisoners, and the lack of useful educational or work activities.

  • Human Rights in Northern Ireland

    Human rights abuses are persistent and chronic in Northern Ireland, affecting Protestants and Catholics alike, and are committed by both security forces and paramilitary groups in violation of international standards.