Germany’s plans for cannabis legalization will create a two-tiered marijuana policy, with legal access and immunity from prosecution for some, and continued criminalization for people from racialized, migrantized, and other frequently-policed groups.

Along with partners (RE)Claim/MCDS (France), Hungarian Helsinki Committee (Hungary), Justice Collective urges the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing and the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights to demand a Europe-wide stop to the criminalization of poverty, racist police practices, and debtor’s prisons.

Justice Collective is launching a new research project to understand racism in courts and in the criminal legal system, starting in April with court-watching in Berlin.

Mitali Nagrecha, Coordinator of Justice Collective, wrote for Al Jazeera about how people in Europe should have the right to film the police.