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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, […]
Photo caption: PRI meeting with Directorate General of prisons and Detention Houses From 20–25 October 2024, Penal Reform International (PRI) embarked on its first mission to Türkiye for an EU-funded initiative. This four-year project, implemented in partnership with the Civil Society in the Penal System Association (CISST), aims to support the improvement of detention conditions and […]
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 32nd Session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) will be held in Vienna, Austria and online from 22 – 26 May 2023. The CCPCJ is the principal policymaking body that guides the UN in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice, which takes action through resolutions and decisions. PRI will be at the […]
Penal Reform International, as part of our work with the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission (MINUSCA) supporting the national strategy for demilitarising prisons in Central African Republic (CAR), has assisted the Ministry of Justice in partnering with the Central African Agricultural Development Agency of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The goal of this […]
On 7 March 2023, PRI hosted a multi-stakeholder regional roundtable in Brussels to discuss and address problems faced by Roma in European criminal justice systems, especially within the context of implementing non-custodial sanctions and measures. The roundtable discussions benefitted from the expertise and perspective of criminal justice practitioners from seven European countries as well as […]
In January-February 2023, PRI delivered a 3-week series of trainings in partnership with UNODC in the Philippines on the UN Nelson Mandela Rules and Bangkok Rules, reaching 150 frontline jail and prison officers from Luzon, Visayas and Davao regions in the Philippines, in collaboration with the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) and the […]
On 13 June, 26 women from Mbale Women’s Prison were certified in small business management. The women, who had completed one month’s training in business development, entrepreneurship and strategic business planning, also received startup capital ranging from Shs3m to Shs7m, to launch their own business to support themselves and their families upon release. At the ceremony, one of the beneficiaries said, “When I was […]
As part of our support to the Central African Ministry of Justice for the implementation of the national strategy for the demilitarization of the CAR’s prisons, Penal Reform International, as implementing partner of MINUSCA initiated and organised a vocational training for people detained in Ngaragba, Bimbo and Berberati prisons in CAR. The objectives of this […]
The rescheduled 14th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice will be held from 7 – 12 March 2021 in Kyoto, Japan under the overall theme “Advancing crime prevention, criminal justice and the rule of law: towards the achievement of the 2030 Agenda”. The UN ‘Crime Congress’, held once every five years since 1955, […]
Finalists of the ‘Capstone Project’ research competition, implemented by Penal Reform International (PRI) with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Kazakhstan, presented their research projects on 14 July 2020. This year, due to the COVID-19 related restrictions in Kazakhstan, students of M.Utemissov West Kazakhstan State University presented their research […]
