Canadian Policing Research Catalogue

Take back the streets : repression and criminalization of protest around the world : October 2013 / Abby Deshman, Karim Ennarah, Luciana Pol, and James Welch.

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Repression and criminalization of protest around the world

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-60).

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1 online resource (63 pages)

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"The organizations that participated in the elaboration of this report are the American Civil Liberties Union, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (Argentina), the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, the Kenyan Human Rights Commission, the Legal Resources Centre (South Africa), and Liberty (United Kingdom). The tenth member of INCLO, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, contributed editorially to the report."--Page 2.
"October 2013"--Cover.

Summary

"This publication attempts to address some of the gaps in public debate about the state's responsibility toward the protection of the right to protest and assembly. We relate nine case studies from the nine countries about how governments have responded to diverse kinds of protest and public assembly."--Page 2.

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Contents

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Case studies: United States (Puerto Rico) ; Israel ; Canada ; Argentina ; Egypt ; Hungary ; Kenya ; South Africa ; United Kingdom -- Promotion and protection of human rights in the context of social protests: main international standards regulating the use of force by the police -- Conclusion.

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