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PRI’s Central Asia office are hosting training for journalists on reporting on penal reform issues
PRI’s Central Asia office are running training for 25 journalists on reporting on penal reform issues in Astana this week. The training will be led by a team of experts from the United Kingdom, including Malcolm Dean, former Guardian journalist, now working for the Guardian Foundation, and from Kazakhstan. The goal of the event is to […]
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PRI joins Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women on panel at Commission on Status of Women today
PRI’s Policy Director Andrea Huber will be joining Rashida Manjoo, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women on a side-event panel on Violence against Women in Custodial Settings at the Commission on the Status of Women in New York today. International human rights law requires that all people deprived of their liberty should be treated humanely […]
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PRI to co-host International Colloquium on Juvenile Justice in India
From 16-18 March 2013, PRI, in partnership with HAQ Centre for Child Rights, the National Law University-Delhi, UNICEF India, Save the Children-India, Cordaid, UK Department for Development and Child Fund- India, will host an International Colloquim on Juvenile Justice in Delhi. The purpose of the colloquium is to reflect upon the variety of problems different […]
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PRI joins Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women on panel at Commission on Status of Women today
PRI’s Policy Director Andrea Huber will be joining Rashida Manjoo, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women on a side-event panel on Violence against Women in Custodial Settings at the Commission on the Status of Women in New York today. International human rights law requires that all people deprived of their liberty should be treated humanely […]
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PRI’s Central Asia office are hosting training for journalists on reporting on penal reform issues
PRI’s Central Asia office are running training for 25 journalists on reporting on penal reform issues in Astana this week. The training will be led by a team of experts from the United Kingdom, including Malcolm Dean, former Guardian journalist, now working for the Guardian Foundation, and from Kazakhstan. The goal of the event is to […]
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Briefing: Next steps in the Review of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
Together with six other organisation, PRI has issued an updated briefing on the review of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners. This briefing is issued ahead of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to be held from 22 to 26 April in Vienna. The report and recommendations of […]
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International Women’s Day: Renewed calls for better treatment of female prisoners
PRI would like to take the opportunity on International Women’s Day to promote better treatment of women in prison worldwide. Whilst the Bangkok Rules were adopted over a year ago there is still a long way to go to implement the Rules. On 6 March PRI, with the Thai Permanent Representation to the UN, OMCT and Quaker […]
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Turkish delegation join PRI to discuss good practice in justice for children
Last week PRI welcomed a delegation of judicial and prison staff from Turkey to its London office, facilitated by Marianne Moore of the Justice Studio and UNICEF Turkey. The main purpose of the visit was to learn more about good practice in juvenile justice, looking particularly at sentencing policies for young offenders, diversion and non-custodial options and treatment and […]
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PRI’s partner in Pakistan, the DOST Foundation, to host conference on alternatives to imprisonment next week
On 27-28 February, Prison, Police and Probation officials and the Judiciary from four provinces in Pakistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Baluchistan and Sindh, as well as local civil society organisations and international criminal justice experts, will participate in a Conference ‘Criminal Justice Reform in Pakistan – Developing Alternatives to Prison’. The Conference will focus on prison […]
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PRI and Commonwealth Secretariat team up again to train prison officials from 19 African countries on human rights
From 18-22 February PRI will be delivering a five-day Training of Trainers in Human Rights for prison officials and heads of training institutions in Maputo, Mozambique. The training is the second such workshop to take place as part of a project sponsored by the Commonwealth Secretariat Human Rights Unit. The first training, which took place […]