PRI has a number of programmes in Bulgaria, Moldova and Romania.
Community Service
PRI has been working on the promotion of community service in Romania since 2002. Activities have focussed on creating and building the capacity Romanian experts to promote the use of community service as an alternative to detention. Training is regularly provided to judges, prosecutors, probation officers, and local authority representatives.
Networking project in Romania and Bulgaria
This new project started in 2006. It aims to contribute to the development of a community response to discrimination against Roma people, including children and young offenders at risk of abusing substances. The project will strengthen the capacity of selected Romanian and Bulgarian Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to promote equal treatment and human rights for Roma people.
Human Rights Training in Romanian Prisons
The programme aims to support the professionalisation of prison management and protect the rights of detainees. It includes training and the production of resource materials for prison officials responsible for training prison guards.
Improving Human Rights in Bulgarian Prisons
The main objective of the programme is to professionalise prison staff in order to create a prison environment where the rights of detainees are upheld.
Health and Human Rights in Prisons in Moldova
The aim of the project is to reduce the incidence of Tuberculosis (TB) in prisons through the implementation of specific medical treatment schemes and by strengthening alternatives to imprisonment and rehabilitation programmes for detainees and former detainees.
For more information contact:
Mihai Popescu, Regional Director
PRI Bucharest
Calea Grivitei 33
Ap. 3, sect 1
Bucharest 010703
Romania
Tel./Fax: +40 21 316 1505
Email: pribucharest@penalreform.org
http://www.penalreform.ro/
PRI’s work in the region is funded by the Interchurch Organisation for Development Co-operation (ICCO), the Catholic Organisation for Relief and Development AID (CORDAID), the British Embassies in Bucharest and Sofia, the European Union through the Phare Programme, and the Open Society Institute.