“Manifs pour tous”: denunciation of French police brutality to the Council of Human Rights at the UnN

By Grégor Puppinck, Ph.D | June 8, 2013

intervention in the 24th Meeting of the 23rd Regular Session of Human Rights Council, denouncing police brutality in France against the demonstrators opposed to same-sex marriage and adoption.

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On June 6, 2013 at the seat of the United Nations in Geneva, on the occasion of the process of the Universal Periodic Review of France, the ECLJ, represented by its director, Grégor Puppinck, addressed the Council of Human Rights in order to denounce the ongoing police brutality against the manifestation in favor of the family and the rights of children.
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a mechanism of the United Nations whereby the Council of Human Rights periodically reviews the actions of each UN Member State in the area of human rights. Each State examined, is the object of critics and recommendations and each presents in return the measures in which they are undertaking for the amelioration of the situation in its territory.
The ECLJ as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) holds special Consultative Status before the United Nations with the ability of intervening orally before the Council of Human Rights. Its regular purpose is the defending and promoting, in particular, of religious liberty of conscience and of expression worldwide. This is the first time that the ECLJ intervenes to denounce violations of human rights by a European country. Such interventions enable the public exposure of violations of human rights and, as far as possible, contribute to the amelioration of the situation in the country concerned.
Concerning France, the recent events demonstrate in particular the grave abuse of the use of force and of the process of arrest and of identity checks against the protestors. With regard to custody by the police and abuse of identity checks, it is about a structural problem, also denounced by other NGO’s, and which must be resolved. As for the police violence, the victims must be able to have legal recourse against the authors of these violent actions.

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