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PRI at the UN Crime Commission 2017
The UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice will convene in Vienna on 22 – 26 May 2017. The UN ‘Crime Commission’ meets annually and is the principal policy-making body of the UN in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice. It is therefore of key relevance to PRI’s mission. The Commission is the preparatory […]
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Pioneering research on women serving community service and probation in Kenya
Nairobi, 3 October 2016 Today, Penal Reform International (PRI) and the Kenya Probation and Aftercare Service (PAS) publish a research report and short documentary, as partners in a pilot project on women serving community service and probation orders in Kenya. The research seeks to identify and understand the distinct challenges women face when completing these orders […]
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Delegates from across Africa discuss factors for successful community service as ExTRA project ends
At the end of June, PRI’s new Africa Office welcomed Directors or Probation and Community Service from all over the East African region to Kampala for the PRI’s ExTRA Project End-term Evaluation meeting. The project has focussed on community service as an alternative to imprisonment for petty offences and is now complete after two years of […]
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PRI at the UN Crime Commission 2016
The UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice will convene in Vienna on 23-27 May 2016. 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 […]
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Invite to UNGASS event: Human rights impacts of drug policies
How can better drug policies help improve prison conditions and protect human rights? Together with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, PRI is organising a side-event at the UN General Assembly Special Session on drugs (UNGASS) on 18 April 2016 on Human rights impacts of drug policies. Monday 18 April 2016 8.30-9.30am […]
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PRI opens new regional office in Kampala, Uganda
PRI is delighted to announce the opening of its new PRI Africa Office in January 2016. Based in Kampala, Uganda, the office will develop PRI’s expanding work in the Sub-Saharan Africa region. PRI has worked in partnership with criminal justice agencies and civil society in the sub-Saharan Africa region since the 1990s. Our work in […]
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Legal professionals and NGOs in remote Pakistan discuss the value of the UN Bangkok Rules
In November, PRI’s partner NGO in Pakistan, the DOST Welfare Foundation, which works in the north western border province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, trained 48 law students, 21 faculty members of local Law Colleges, and 30 NGO representatives from Peshawar on the UN Bangkok Rules on women offenders and prisoners. The prison population in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa […]
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PRI to co-host informal consultation on criminal justice and drug-related policies
On Tuesday 29 September 2015, PRI, the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) and the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) are hosting an informal consultation meeting for NGOs to discuss the UN General Assembly Special Session on drugs (UNGASS) in April 2016 and to gather civil society views on drugs and criminal justice and alternatives to […]
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PRI to work with the Kenya Probation Service to pilot gender-sensitive approach to community service
PRI is delighted to have received a grant from the Thailand Institute of Justice (TIJ) to work with the Kenya Probation Service to study and develop gender-sensitive community and probation orders in Kenya. The UN Bangkok Rules, universal international standards adopted for women offenders in 2010, call for prioritisation of ‘gender-sensitive non-custodial measures’, recognising 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 […]