Alison Hannah, PRI’s Executive Director, reports from a workshop for magistrates in Kisumu in Kenya’s Western Province. About ten years ago, PRI worked with local partners in a number of East African countries to help develop and support community service orders (CSOs) as an alternative to imprisonment. CSOs offer a more effective and humane way […]
5th October 2012
For the past week, PRI has delivered training on human rights in prison management for prison and corrections staff, in the beautiful Solomon Islands of the South Pacific. The training was organised by the Commonwealth Secretariat and attended by representatives from Australia and a number of island countries: Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, […]
1st June 2012
On 23rd May 2012, Penal Reform International held a round table in Shymkent on the topic of ‘The system of re-socialisation of ex-prisoners in Kazakhstan: effective methods of coordination of the powers of state agencies’. The round table was within the framework of the PRI project ‘Rehabilitation of ex-prisoners and protection of their human rights by mutual […]
23rd May 2012
(17th May 2012) PRI Associate Rob Allen writes from Dar es Salaam Arriving in Dar last Sunday, much of Tanzania seemed engrossed in the dramatic finale of the English premier league. Meanwhile, at the Mbeza Garden Hotel some forty magistrates were registering for the first of two training courses on alternatives to prison sponsored by […]
17th May 2012
Continuing from our successful trip to Dhaka, Bangladesh, PRI’s Honorary President, Dr. Rani Shankardass and I travelled to Kolkata, capital of the Indian State of West Bengal, on Friday evening, 4 May. While PRI’s work in Bangladesh is well documented, we have not undertaken any work in the Indian state of West Bengal before. On Saturday […]
10th May 2012
I was in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 1 to 4 May to develop PRI’s work in the South Asia region. Alongside meetings with the Chief Justice and Law Minister, PRI had also organised, together with our local partner organisation BLAST (the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust), a roundtable event on women and girls in the […]
6th May 2012
Blog by PRI’s Executive Director Alison Hannah On Tuesday evening I arrived in Kiev for the final conference reporting on the outcomes of our 3-year programme to support penitentiary reform in Ukraine. As our Regional Director’s flight from Moscow was delayed, I went ahead to our hotel on a bizarre taxi ride along back streets […]
13th April 2012
(5 April) It rained cats and dogs over night, maybe so we get used to leaving the equatorial temperatures – apparently it snowed in Britain… After our boxes finally made it through customs on Tuesday, we could set up the PRI information stand. Most of the material has gone by today and we are pleased […]
5th April 2012
(2 April 2012) We start our day at the IPU by congratulating the delegation from Myanmar, who is sitting next to us in the plenary, on their successful and peaceful by-elections yesterday. During the day, a couple of other delegates also stopped by to convey their congratulations. Yesterday saw by-elections in Myanmar to fill 45 […]
2nd April 2012
Blog by Andrea Huber and Jacqueline Macalesher (1 April 2012) We arrived here yesterday. Our partners, the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI), were kind enough to pick us up at the airport of Entebbe. Driving down to Kampala, we were charmed by the greenness of the countryside between the airport of Entebbe and Kampala, […]
1st April 2012