INCLO

Protest Rights and Policing

March 22, 2023

Lethal in Disguise 2: How Crowd-Control Weapons Impact Health and Human Rights

Our new report is the most comprehensive report to date on the dangers of crowd-control weapons. Produced by INCLO members and Physicians for Human Rights, with the collaboration of the Omega Research Foundation.

Protest Rights and Policing

January 20, 2023

INCLO Joins Coalition of Human Rights NGOs in Signing the Shoreditch Declaration for a Torture Free Trade Treaty

More than 30 international organizations including Omega Research Foundation, Amnesty International and numerous INCLO members and partners have joined forces to call for an international treaty to control the trade in tools of torture used to suppress peaceful protests and abuse detainees around the world.

Publication

May 03, 2021

Protesting during a Pandemic: State Responses during COVID-19

An INCLO issue paper that documents and analyzes protests and state responses that affect the right to protest, as well as highlight the work of INCLO members in 14 countries in the midst of the global pandemic in 2020.

Publication

July 30, 2018

Take Back the Streets: Repression and Criminalization of Protest around the World

Repression and criminalization of protest around the world

Publication

June 01, 2018

Defending Dissent: Towards State Practices that Protect and Promote the Rights to Protest

INCLO published this report in partnership with the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School (IHRC).

Publication

May 30, 2018

Lethal in Disguise: The Health Consequences of Crowd-Control Weapons

Respect for freedom of expression and assembly is one of the key indicators of a government’s respect for human rights, and one of the pillars of modern participatory democracy...

Expert Panel

June 27, 2023

Faces under surveillance: Global perspectives on FRT use and regulation

Transcript of the expert event on March 8, 2023, in Toronto about current human rights issues related to facial recognition technology in Argentina, Canada, the UK and the USA. Hosted and moderated by INCLO's Canadian member, CCLA.

Report

December 14, 2022

New Joint Study on State Surveillance Measures Adopted During the Covid-19 Pandemic

INCLO, European Centre for Not-For-Profit Law and Privacy International publish Under Surveillance: (Mis)use of Technologies in Emergency Responses (Global lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic).

Surveillance and Human Rights

January 22, 2021

INCLO’s FRT stories of harm highlight need for strong legal framework that protects civil rights

The indiscriminate use of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) globally by law enforcement and other government agencies is dangerously normalising surveillance.

22/01/2021

January 22, 2021

In Focus: Facial Recognition Tech Stories And Rights Harms From Around The World

A new INCLO report of FRT stories from around the world flags the risk of creating societies where people are watched and identified when they attend a protest, take part in religious events, visit a doctor or just go about their daily lives.

Publication

June 01, 2019

Spying on Dissent - Surveillance Technologies and Protest

INCLO’s case studies from 13 countries demonstrate that the way policing institutions select and deploy online surveillance technologies against protesters often occurs without necessary human rights and democratic safeguards.

Brochure

October 26, 2018

Regulate Intelligence Sharing!

Call For Action - briefing paper written jointly by INCLO and Privacy International, sets out urgent recommendations that governments must adopt to ensure their intelligence sharing is compliant with international human rights law.

Publication

June 01, 2018

Unanswered Questions - International Intelligence Sharing

This report builds on a coordinated records access project by INCLO members to their national governments. Ten members of INCLO filed Freedom of Information (FOI) requests in an attempt to shine a light on how intelligence sharing practices operate following Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013.

Publication

October 11, 2016

Surveillance and Democracy: Chilling Tales from Around the World

Chilling tales from around the world.

Publication

July 18, 2022

Global Developments in Religious Freedom and Equal Treatment

INCLO’s members distribute this international newsletter, highlighting cases that reveal the tensions between the two rights and identifying worrying trends that require serious consideration.

Newsletters:

Publication

September 01, 2015

Drawing the Line: Tackling Tensions between Religious Freedom and Equality

Tackling Tensions Between Religious Freedom and Equality

Brochure

December 17, 2017

Gaining Ground Brochure

The Gaining Ground is a practical manual proposing strategic approaches and highlighting casestudies of NGOs anticipating and responding to governmental attacks.