Together with other European states, the Netherlands is often at or near the head in international civil liberties and political rights rankings.
These are limitations on government, which citizens can enforce these classical civil rights directly at the judge.
In 2007 Amnesty International criticised the Dutch government of several human rights issues, including war crimes in the Iraq War, the treatment of alleged terrorists and the detention of migrants, especially children and an incident surrounding a fire in an asylum seeker detention centre.
[3] According to the Council of Europe anti-torture Committee, there were several violations of human rights committed by Dutch officials.
[18] In 2009, two police officers from Bleiswijk approached a homeless man sleeping on the grass in a town park, detained him, and drove him away to a place north of Moerkapelle.
[19][20] People on welfare in the Netherlands can get a house visit by inspectors without any concrete suspicion of fraud required.
Because forcing entry would be in conflict with the right to privacy, the citizen in question is asked permission to enter.
A significant large part of the Dutch population is potentially exposed these privacy invasive measures as they do not only apply to people on unemployment welfare but other benefits as well.