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International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO) Launch Report on Crowd Control Weapons

09 March 2016

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"Over the past number of years, law enforcement and security forces have increasingly turned to the use of crowd-control weapons (CCWs) to respond to popular protests. Today, the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO) and Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) release "Lethal in Disguise: The Health Consequences of Crowd-Control Weapons", a report documenting the health effects of these weapons. The report focuses on the dangers of so-called “less lethal weapons”, particularly when used to control or manage assemblies. It is unique in its format of linking medical literature and data on weapons’ health effects with case studies highlighting their human toll.

The report was launched at the United Nations in Geneva on the occasion of the presentation of a joint report on the proper management of assemblies, prepared by the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, and the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns. The Special Rapporteurs’ report was presented to the 31st session of the Human Rights Council."

See: International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO) Launch Report on Crowd Control Weapons (ICCL, link)

Full report: Lethal in Disguise: The Health Consequences of Crowd-Control Weapons (pdf)

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