On 9 January, the Prime Minister of the Central African Republic endorsed three policy documents essential to the demilitarisation and reform of prisons in the Central African Republic. The United Nations MINUSCA partnered with PRI to develop the demilitarisation strategy, in collaboration with national stakeholders.
The aim of the forum was to bring together key civil society actors to discuss and strategise how to tackle the increase and implementation of the use of life imprisonment and to establish a global coalition.
The conference brought together representatives from five countries to share experiences on effective prison management of violent extremism offenders.
To mark the World Day, PRI and the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide have published a new factsheet examining the prison conditions of women living on death row.
The information would form part of guidance that PRI, together with the Thailand Institute of Justice, is developing on gender-specific rehabilitation and reintegration programmes for women prisoners.
The event, which took place at the OSCE's Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, was co-organised by PRI, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
The meeting, which will take place from 10–21 September 2018, is Europe’s largest annual human rights conference.
The new tool provides guidance for implementing the revised UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, known as the Nelson Mandela Rules.
PRI facilitated a one-day workshop which brought together a range of expert representatives from national prison systems, civil society, academia and the European Court of Human Rights.
The conference, which will take place in Bogota from 5–7 September 2018, will bring together 45 women prisoners’ rights advocates from the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe.