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Roundtable on human rights in Kyrgyzstan’s temporary detention
A roundtable was held in Bishkek for discussion of human rights issues in relation to temporary detention facilities (IVS) in Kyrgyzstan. The roundtable was attended by government representatives including the Attorney General, law enforcement agencies and the Office of the Ombudsman, national and international experts in the field of human rights, including the UN Special […]
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PRI participate in Council of Europe Seminar in Ukraine on the prevention of ill treatment in places of detention.
PRI’s programme development director, Nikhil Roy, was invited by the Council of Europe as an expert speaker at two seminars on ‘European standards and safeguards for protection of prisoners’ rights and obligations of prison staff, including the prevention of ill-treatment in the places of deprivation of liberties’, held in Kyiv on the 17/18th November and […]
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PRI Human Rights Day Film Festival, Jordan
Penal Reform International (an international non-governmental organisation dedicated to the promotion of penal and criminal justice reform worldwide), in collaboration with Karama Human Rights Film Festival 2011, will present via its Middle East and North Africa office a panel session entitled Right to Life and the Arab Spring: Prospects for Abolition of the Death Penalty. This […]
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PRI Human Rights Day Film Festival in Kazakhstan
On Human Rights Day, 10 December, PRI’s Central Asia office held a film festival to raise awareness of the damaging impact that imprisonment has on prisoners, their families and the staff who run the prisons themselves. Saule Mektepbareva, PRI’s Regional Director and Alison Hannah, Executive Director opened the festival, showing in a local cinema, and […]
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PRI round table on women’s health in Kazakhstan’s prisons
Issues on prevention of HIV/AIDS in Kazakhstan prisons to be discussed within the framework of an EU project ASTANA – A round table on ‘Prevention of HIV/AIDS in prison system in Kazakhstan’ with the support of the European Union will be held on 6 December 2011 in the conference hall of the Jumbaktas hotel. During the conference, […]
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PRI Central Asia to host training on rehabilitation of torture victims.
PRI in partnership with Freedom from Torture will host a three day training on on rehabilitation of torture victims for staff of public organizations of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Tajikistan between 31 October and 2 November in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The main goal of the training is to teach participants (doctors, psychologists, […]
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Enhancing Torture Prevention – OPCAT Global Forum
(30 November 2011) On 10 and 11 November, nearly 300 representatives from over 90 countries gathered in Geneva to take stock of progress and challenges in the prevention of torture, five years after the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture entered into force. The Global Forum was organised by the Association for the Prevention […]
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PRI conducts expert meetings on holistic rehabilitation and torture prevention in Tbilisi
Within the framework of the Torture Prevention project two consecutive events were organised in Tbilisi for experts from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia between 23 – 30 November 2011. One event was training of trainers provided by Freedom from Torture on holistic rehabilitation issues and the other was an expert meeting with the researcher from the […]
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PRI at African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
On 27 November 2011, PRI attended the 18th Session of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (The Committee) in Algiers to advocate for the better protection of the rights of the children of incarcerated parents. PRI’s position on this important child rights issue is outlined in a recently […]
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Experts discuss the future of the penitentiary system in Kazakhstan
The main goal of the event is to evaluate the current situation in the penitentiary system, discuss the reform of the criminal and correctional laws including development of the punishment system, introduction of alternatives to imprisonment, prevention of religious extremism among prisoners, as well as further development of the civil control system. The conference will […]