France: the Human Rights Implications of the Presidential Campaign

#UrgenceDroitsHumains 11 questions to the candidates for human rights to be at the heart of the presidential campaign. Learn more (in French) Human Rights Watch has sent 11 key questions about human rights that France’s next president will face to all candidates for the May 2017 presidential election. We explain here the implications of each of them, and why it is essential that the candidates address them. Ethnic profiling in identity checks Our question Will you undertake a reform of identity checks and introduce systematic recording of police stops, to fight ethnic profiling by police…

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