Penal Reform International in the Media

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Abolition of the Death Penalty

What do the people of Kazakhstan think about the death penalty? Channel Eurasia feature for World Day Against the Death Penalty (2012)

PRI International Conference 19 and 20 September 2011. Click here to hear the Keynote address by PRI Board member Bryan Stevenson.  Part one and Part two

PRI host film festival in Jordan on abolition of the death penalty after the Arab Spring

British Ambassador speaks at Jordan film festival

Death Penalty: Not in the Name of the Quran

Capital Punishment: Dying Out

Photographs of PRI's September 2011 conference

Arab Spring and the Death Penalty

Progressing towards Abolition of the Death Penalty in East Africa

East Africa Prison Officer Back Stop to Death Penalty

East African Judges Back Death Penalty

Judges Back Death Penalty

Global trends to abolish the death  penalty are discussed in  London ( Russian language)

PRI Conference on Abolition of the death Penalty (Kazakh Language)

More countries reject the death penalty (Russian language)

Coverage of PRI Georgia film festival (Georgian language)

Prevention of Torture

PRI's regional forum in Tbilisi, March 2012 (video)

Discussion on CPT report on Armenia (video in Armenian)

PRI's roundtable in Kyrgyzstan, organised with OSCE, 13 December 2011

Improvements and Alternatives to Imprisonment

India: PRI Honorary President speaks about prison villagesBBC Mundo: Rehabilitate or execute: the dilemma about what to do with those who break the law (in Spanish)Georgia: PRI Regional Director speaks on prison system's problems

Blog on the use of alternatives to imprisonment in East Africa

PRI's Programme Development Director on radio debate on chemical castration

PRI says overcrowding leads to human rights violations

Kazakhstan: coverage on transfer of prison authority to Ministry of Interior

Chile: PRI Board member on the problems with prisons (Spanish)

Justice for Children

International conference in Bishkek discussed societal attitudes towards children

Kyrgyzstan: Authoritative expert from Canada notes that issues of juvenile justice and torture everywhere need to be addressed comprehensively

Armenia: Children's rehabilitation centres open

Georgia: PRI's Regional Director on the juvenile justice system

Detained children complain of abuses, rights violations
 
Mental health of young offenders: IJJO event
 
Report defends children in detention  
 
Russia: PRI debates age of criminal responsibility on the radio
 
United Nations Deputy Secretary General launches new Tanzanian report on violence against children
 

Women and Prison

PRI co-organises roundtable on women in prison in Bangladesh

PRI speaks on women and babies in prison in Russia (54th minute, Russian language)

Interview on the situation of women and children in prison in Kazkhstan (Kazakh language)

TV coverage of roundtable about Ust- Kamenogorsk women's prison (Kazakh)  /  English review document

PRI criticises policy on children of prisoners in Russia

Country-specific coverage

Media for Central Asia office, June 2012 (Kazakh & Russian)

Kazakhstan: interview with Central Asia Director (February 2012)

PRI's Central Asia Director on Kazakhstan's penal system

Media for Kazakhstan in September 2011 (Kazakh & English)

Media for Kazakhstan in January 2012 (Kazakh)

Coverage of seminar in Ukraine November 2011 (Ukrainian)

Canada: PRI Chair on problems with new crime bill