On 25 October 2019, following protests and social upheaval in Chile, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) announced that a team would conduct a visit to the country.1 A group of Chilean parliamentarians had expressed their desire that OHCHR conduct a mission. On 24 October, the Government extended an invitation to OHCHR to carry out such a visit. OHCHR sent a team to assess the human rights situation relating to the protests and state of emergency, identify main patterns and trends of human rights violations committed, analyse the institutional response to the protests, and make recommendations to the State. The OHCHR Regional Office for South America (ROSA), based in Santiago, supported the team’s work