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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’s Middle East and North Africa office organises an international seminar on the prospects for prison reform in Tunisia
More than 500 participants gathered in Tunis last week for an international seminar on the prospects for prison reform in Tunisia. The event was hosted by the Tunisian Prime Minister, Hamadi Jebali, and Justice Minister Noureddine Beheiri, and was organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Human Rights and Transitional Justice, […]
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PRI hosts a workshop on alternatives to detention in Jordan
PRI’s Middle East and North Africa office held a two-day workshop on ‘Alternative sanctions to detention: prospects for and ways of promoting their application in Jordan’ this week by the Dead Sea. Participating were representatives of media organisations in Jordan, audio-visual, print and electronic media, along with civil society organisations active in the field of […]
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PRI launches new resource on developing community service as an alternative to imprisonment
PRI has today published a new resource – Making Community Service Work: A Resource Pack from East Africa – which provides information and material about how community service has developed as an alternative to imprisonment in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Sentencing offenders to do unpaid work of public benefit has many advantages. It is cheaper and less harmful […]
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PRI MENA signs MoU with Police Department in Jordan
On Wednesday 4 January 2011 Penal Reform International , Middle East and North Africa Office and The Public Security Department (PSD) in Jordan, presented by its new juvenile Police Department, signed a memorandum of understanding to boost bilateral cooperation and promote the use of restorative justice. The MOU aimstoenhance the use of restorative justice in […]
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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 […]