News & Announcements
A call for tender for the evaluation of PRI’s juvenile justice programme in the Middle East and North Africa has been announced.
The deadline for submissions is 1 October 2010. CVs and proposed work plans will be reviewed during the first week of October. The assignment is due to start by mid October.
From 14-15 September 2010, PRI will train staff members of the central prison administration, law-enforcement bodies and human rights organisations from the Republic of Kazakhstan. Participants will be trained in international standards to protect the rights of those facing life and long-term imprisonment.
By Aprille Muscara IPS
Thirty-four years ago, Canada was one of the first Western countries to abolish the death penalty. In 1987, the question of capital punishment and whether it should be reinstated resurfaced in the House of Commons.
David Daubney, former parliamentarian and current chair of Penal Reform International, was instrumental in the defeat of the motion
Last week, 17 August 2010, the President of Kazakhstan declared in Decree № 1039 measures to improve the judicial system and law enforcement in the country.
PRI staff from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) office went on a fact-finding mission to Yemen, 31 July – 4 August 2010. The purpose was to gain a better understanding of the death penalty and its use in the country.
The latest in a series of meetings supported by PRI’s Central Asia office, and designed to facilitate fulfilment by Kazakhstan of its obligations under the OPCAT, took place in the Ministry of Justice on 28 July 2010.