Recently Dinara Dildabekova, Death Penalty Project Manager in PRI’s office in Central Asia, organised two two-day training workshops (one in Kazakhstan and one in Tajikistan) to train prison officials on international human rights standards on the rights of those on death row or those serving a life or long-term sentence. In Kazakhstan training was held […]
24th September 2013
Oliver Robertson, PRI’s new manager for our Death Penalty and Alternatives project, reports from a successful panel at the 24th session of the Human Rights Council on the rights of children of parents sentenced to death. ‘I do not think we will have any problems tomorrow” Francis told me ‘because we are talking about children, […]
16th September 2013
All prisoners, including those sentenced to life imprisonment, should have a prospect of release. Failure to provide for such a prospect by setting up a mechanism to review life sentences after a reasonable period amounts to inhuman and degrading treatment, which infringes the prohibition on such treatment in Article 3 of the European Convention on […]
24th July 2013
PRI’s Death Penalty Programme Manager Jacqueline Macalesher responds to the revised EU Guidelines on the Death Penalty adopted last week, which have made a number of significant improvements to the EU’s policy on the fight against the death penalty. On 22 April, the Foreign Affairs Council adopted new revised and updated EU Guidelines on the […]
30th April 2013
(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