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Penal Reform International is proud to welcome four distinguished experts to our Membership Council, strengthening our collective efforts to build fairer, more effective justice systems worldwide: Professor Fergus McNeill, Dr Josephine Ndagire, Ambika Satkunanathan and Professor Maiko Tagusari. Drawing on exceptional expertise, our new Council members are leaders in fields critical to PRI’s mission: advancing […]
Organised by UNICRI and PRI Hybrid event A Greener Path: Sustainable Practices in Correctional Facilities Date: 26th March Location: Room VIC-C CR2, Vienna International Center Time: 8:45am-10:00am CET Register here Save the meeting link Background Climate change on instability amplifies threats that can exacerbate existing vulnerabilities and create unique and heightened risks related to transnational […]
Congress on Justice with Children The World Congress Satellite Events are organized in different parts of the world and aim at being strategic at national and regional levels to engage with relevant actors in those constituencies. The organizers of each satellite event will choose from the World Congress on Justice With Children themes and topics, […]
The International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA) Annual Conference 2023 is taking place this week in Antwerp, Belgium, from 22-27 October 2023, hosted by the Belgian Prison Service. The theme of the conference is “Humane Corrections: What more can we do“, reflecting the need for a more humane approach to corrections and to identify new and […]
The 50th session of the UN Human Rights Council took place in Geneva from 13 June to 8 July 2022. Over the past weeks, human rights experts, state and civil society representatives have highlighted human rights violations in criminal justice systems, particularly for vulnerable and marginalised groups, and have underlined the need to, among other […]
Prisons and justice systems are facing unprecedented challenges brought by the COVID-19 global pandemic. At this launch event for PRI’s new report Global Prison Trends 2020, international leaders and experts will address chronic issues that have led to this human rights and public health crisis with people in prison being so vulnerable – and critically, […]
This year PRI is celebrating 30 years of accomplishments in developing and promoting fair and effective criminal justice systems across the world. Today, we set our trajectory for the coming decade, launching our new strategy for 2020-2023. The decade we are entering will determine whether the world is able to sustain and promote human rights, […]
