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
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
PRI’s Policy Director, Andrea Huber, looks at the some of the major trends – national, international, the good, the bad and the ugly – in criminal justice and penal policy over the last few years. This blog was first published by the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. If there is a criminal […]
11th June 2014
On 15 April 2014 PRI organised a Regional Conference ‘Towards a Complete Abolition of the Death Penalty in Tajikistan: Experience of Central Asian Countries’. The event was organised in cooperation with Presidential Administration of the Republic of Tajikistan, the Swiss Cooperation Office, League of women lawyers in Tajikistan, with the financial support of UK aid […]
16th April 2014
Alison Hannah, PRI’s Executive Director reports from a regional conference in Kazakhstan on the development of prison legislation in Central Asia. In England and Wales, prisons are reaching crisis point. According to a recent report there are only 265 free prison places out of the 85,800 prison estate capacity. Emergency measures may be needed to […]
18th March 2014
This week, PRI’s Death Penalty Project Manager, Oliver Robertson, attended the annual Death Penalty Project lecture, given this year by William Schabas, Professor of International Law at Middlesex University London, on the prospects for a death penalty free world. William Schabas is on the optimistic end of the abolitionist spectrum, maintaining confidently over the years that […]
30th January 2014
All states in the MENA region currently retain the death penalty in law – and some continue to carry out executions – but PRI’s Death Penalty Project Manager sees reason for optimism at a two-day conference held by PRI’s MENA office in Algiers. Spanning 8,000km from east to west, MENA (the Middle East and North Africa) is […]
6th January 2014
Every day about 20 news stories pop in my email inbox, giving the latest headlines from around the world on prison and penal issues. Over the past couple of days, these include: ‘Epidemic of self-mutilation’ in women’s prisons in England and Wales’ ‘Inmates need needle-exchange programs and better access to HIV treatment: study’ (Canada) ‘Anti-torture […]
18th December 2013
Today – Human Rights Day (10 December 2013) – is a chance for organisations around the world to draw attention to both the continuing violations of peoples’ rights and the positive steps being made in protecting and respecting them. So it is appropriate that today PRI is in Kolkata, India, conducting a training of trainers’ workshop […]
10th December 2013
On 24 October 2013 the General Prosecutor’s office in Kazakhstan presented a draft Criminal Code to parliamentarians. After the presentation and responses to questions of parliamentarians by the Working group on Criminal code at the Parliament (WG) led by the MP Nurlan Abdirov, it was decided that further discussion of the draft law would continue at subsequent […]
20th November 2013