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National Preventive Mechanism of Kazakhstan launches its first annual report

In May, the National Preventive Mechanism of Kazakhstan and the Ombudsman’s Office launched their consolidated annual report for 2014. The NPM was established in law in July 2013 and started carrying out monitoring visits in Spring 2014. The launch meeting was attended by Arman Danielyan, member of the UN Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture […]

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Kazakhstan and Tajikistan: prioritising employment and reintegration

In both Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, PRI is working with the governments and prison authorities to improve rehabilitation and reintegration of prisoners, with a focus on providing more marketable employment opportunities in prison. In Kazakhstan, the President has identified the rule of law as a priority area. Improving the resocialisation of prisoners and creating employment in […]

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Renate Winter from UN Committee on the Rights of the Child leads training on violence for staff of residential institutions in Tajikistan

From 27-29 May, PRI Central Asia held a three-day training workshop in Tajikistan for staff of closed facilities for children on tackling violence against children. The workshop was led by the Vice President of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Renate Winter, together with international experts from Serbia and Kyrgyzstan and local experts. […]

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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 […]