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Revision of the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners: Report of the 3rd Intergovernmental Expert Group Meeting
The advanced copy of the report of the third Intergovernmental Expert Group Meeting held in Vienna on 25-28 March 2014 on the revision of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners is now available. It has been tabled at the 23rd session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (Crime Commission) […]
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PRI’s priorities at the March 2014 Human Rights Council
Next week will see the start of the 25th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council (3-28 March 2014 in Geneva) and PRI will be participating on three key issues: the abolition of the death penalty, justice for children and the revision of the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners. PRI’s statement within the […]
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International and regional progress for justice for children
The start of November has seen two important steps forward to help protect the rights of children in conflict or in contact with the criminal justice system. Firstly, we are very pleased to announce the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) has adopted the first ever General Comment […]
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Big week for the rights of women in prison
This past week at the UN General Assembly in New York has seen some significant developments towards changing the reality for women prisoners. Yesterday the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its causes and consequences, Rashida Manjoo, presented a new report to the UN General Assembly, Pathways to, conditions and consequences of incarceration of […]
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UN Special Rapporteur on Torture report on the current review of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
On 9 August 2013, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Juan Méndez, issued a report on the current review of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (SMR). The report states that the revision process is ‘an opportunity to enhance understanding of the scope and nature of the prohibition against torture and […]
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PRI at the 24th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council – a look ahead
PRI will be engaging on two priority issues at the 24th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council which will open on 9 September in Geneva: the abolition of the death penalty and the human rights impact of the overuse of imprisonment. The session will run for three weeks and the agenda is packed, with over 40 resolutions […]
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PRI at the IPU: Rule of law and access to justice are crucial to lifting the most marginalised out of poverty and achieving MDGs
“Parliamentarians of the world, in the middle of the world” PRI received a warm welcome when it arrived in Ecuador for the 128th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Along with more than 1,200 participants representing parliamentarians from around the world, PRI attended the inaugural ceremony at the National Assembly of Ecuador. The President of Ecuador, […]
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Discussion paper: The Use and Practice of Imprisonment: Current Trends and Future Challenges
Last Friday (26 April 2013) at the 22nd Session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Vienna, PRI presented a discussion paper The Use and Practice of Imprisonment: Current Trends and Future Challenges at a side-event. Despite a night session of the Committee of the Whole on the Thursday evening, the side event […]
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PRI at the IPU: Re-thinking drugs policies: lively debate among parliamentarians in Quito
At the Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Quito, Ecuador, an interesting panel discussion is taking place on “The legalisation of drugs: Can it help curb organised crime?” The room is cramped with parliamentarians from the globe. Introduced by four expert panelists from Afghanistan, Serbia, Uruguay and Mexico, the debate seeks to break the taboo […]
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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 […]