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PRI focuses on corruption in prisons and needs of girls in detention at the Human Rights Council (June 2015)
The 29th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council begins in Geneva next week. PRI’s delegation will be focusing on two key issues: corruption in detention, and the rights of girls in detention. Join PRI for these two events: Girls in Detention Thursday 18 June 2015, 15:00-17:00, Palais des Nations, Room XXVI. Co-hosted by the Permanent Mission of […]
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‘Mandela Rules’ on prisoner treatment adopted
PRI is delighted to report that the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ or Crime Commission) adopted revised Standard Minimum Rules (SMR) for the Treatment of Prisoners at its 24th session last week. The adoption of the revised Rules – to be known as the ‘the Mandela Rules’ – is a historic moment […]
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PRI at the UN Crime Commission 2015
The UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice will convene in Vienna on 18-22 May. Held annually it is the principal policy-making body of the UN in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice and is therefore of key relevance to PRI’s mission. The Commission is the preparatory body for and implements many of […]
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Summer school for NPMs: preventing torture through gender-sensitive monitoring
From 10-13 August 2015, PRI and the University of Bristol in association with the Association for the Prevention of Torture will be running a Summer School for members and staff of National Preventive Mechanisms on ‘Preventing torture and ill-treatment of female detainees through gender-sensitive monitoring’. The Summer School will take place in Bristol, UK (2 hours […]
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Sudan: PRI welcomes the release of Dr Amin Mekki Medani
PRI staff and Board welcome the news that Dr Medani, for many years a PRI Board Member and distinguished Sudanese human rights lawyer and advocate, was released from prison on 9 April and the case against him dropped. Dr Amin Mekki Medani and two fellow human rights defenders, Farouq Abu Eissa and Dr Farah Ibrahim […]
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Training trainers from the Kenyan Probation Department
‘Female offenders require a multidimensional gender specific approach that addresses the problems that form the context for women’s criminal behaviour’, advocated Ms Josephta Mukobe, Principal Secretary for the Kenyan State Department of Coordination of National Government, in an opening address, read on her behalf by the Director of Administration in the State Department, at the […]
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PRI at the 13th UN Crime Congress 2015, Qatar
PRI is delighted to be attending the 13th UN Crime Congress in Doha, Qatar from 12-19 April. We are participating in official Workshop A and hosting and taking part in a number of panels. We have a stand in the exhibition halls where you can pick up our publications and watch our short animated film […]
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PRI to provide monitoring training for National Torture Prevention Centre in Kyrgyzstan
On March 10-12 2015, the staff of the Kyrgyz National Torture Prevention Center (NTPC) will attend training on the monitoring of detention/custodial restraint for juveniles in Kyrgyzstan. The training is part of a three-year project on Gradual eradication of violence against children in detention in Central Asia implemented jointly by the Youth Human Rights Group Public Association […]
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PRI Central Asia hosts training on therapeutic responses to children in conflict with the law
This week, PRI’s Central Asia office is holding a training course in Almaty for the staff of closed institutions on therapeutic responses to address offending and anti-social behaviour by children and adolescents. At the time of writing, there are 95 under-18s in correctional institutions and 167 in specialised schools for children in Kazakhstan. “Amid the political and socio-economic changes taking […]
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PRI at the UN Human Rights Council’s 28th Regular Session (March 2015)
Next week will see the start of the 28th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council (2-27 March 2015 in Geneva). PRI will be participating on two key issues: the abolition of the death penalty and the human rights impact of overuse of imprisonment. We are co-hosting a side-event, ‘Strengthening death penalty standards’, with the Permanent Representations of Switzerland and Mexico. The […]