In June 2014, LICADHO – the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights – released a report detailing widespread abuse of suspects and prisoners. Here, Naly Pilorge, Director of LICADHO, calls for the government to act on its commitment to address torture, including for the establishment of an independent National Preventive Mechanism. On 20 June 2014, during […]
17th September 2014
The terrible gang rape of a student in New Delhi in December 2012 has provoked fierce debate about the treatment of juvenile offenders who commit serious violent crimes in India over the last 18 months. In July 2013, the Supreme Court rejected petitions to lower the age of criminal responsibility to 16 following a campaign […]
27th August 2014
Courts have started to consider whole life sentences without the possibility of parole to be in breach of the prohibition on inhuman and degrading punishment. But what about ordinary prison sentences? In the fourth blog in our anniversary series, Dr Mary Rogan, Head of Law at Dublin Institute of Technology and Chair of the Irish Penal […]
25th August 2014
Oliver Robertson, PRI’s death penalty and alternatives project manager, was in Africa from late June to meet with our partners Foundation for Human Rights Initiative in Uganda and to attend a Continental Conference in Benin on death penalty abolition in Africa. The death penalty is often handed down in situations where trial procedures are certainly […]
24th July 2014
In the third blog of our anniversary series, Marayca Lopez i Ferrer, Senior Corrections Analyst and Planner at US firm CGL/Ricci Greene Associates, explores how forward-thinking architects are moving away from classical models of prison architecture – high perimeter razor-wire topped fences, gloomy undersized concrete cells along narrow corridors – to experiment with innovative spatial concepts […]
24th July 2014
Амнистия или прощение в уголовном законодательстве представляется в настоящее время дискуссионным институтом. Принимаемый на некие юбилеи и памятные государственные даты, она направлена на прощение осужденного с последующим освобождением его от уголовной ответственности, от наказания, или смягчение наказания и даже снятие судимости. Затрагивая сферу уголовно-правовых отношений, амнистию следует больше рассматривать как конституционный институт. Отметим, что последние […]
16th July 2014
PRI has been working with the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence against Children, Marta Santos Pais, to raise awareness and bring about changes in the treatment of girls in the criminal justice system. In this blog she explains how the new Model Strategies and Practical Measures for the Elimination of Violence against […]
15th July 2014
На сегодняшний день вопрос смертной казни является актуальным в странах Центральной Азии. Так на сегодняшний день смертная казнь законодательно сохраняется в Таджикистане и Казахстане. В Кыргызстане смертная казнь отменена в 2007 году. Несомненно, на всех этапах решения вопроса о смертной казни немаловажным является общественное мнение. Весной этого года офис PRI в Центральной Азии провел социологический […]
10th July 2014
Currently PRI Central Asia is implementing a project to humanise the criminal justice systems of Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan through establishing criminal legislative codes in line with international human rights standards. PRI along with local partners (Golos Svobody in Kyrgyz Republic and Human Rights Center in Tajikistan) organised expert meetings, workshops for local civil society […]
2nd July 2014
Andrea Huber welcomes the UN Principles and Guidelines on Access to Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems and their recognition that special measures are needed to ensure legal aid for women, but says that they are just a first step to ensuring that women do not face disadvantage because of their gender at any stage of the criminal […]
30th June 2014