(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
Representatives from PRI attended the 19th Session of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child held at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in late March 2012. During the first day, PRI made an oral submission to the Committee in open session entitled: ‘Falling through the cracks […]
30th March 2012
(5-9 March 2012) A week at the Human Rights Council, A Blog by Andrea Huber, Policy Director at Penal Reform International Upon return from Geneva, on Friday evening, my head was spinning from all the various issues I had discussed with so many different people from so many different institutions and the week felt much […]
12th March 2012
Upon return from Geneva, on Friday evening, my head was spinning from all the various issues I had discussed with so many different people from so many different institutions and the week felt much longer than five days, but at the same time the term had passed as with a snap of the fingers. It […]
11th March 2012