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The status of the death penalty in East Africa (Kenya and Uganda).

PRI In collaboration with Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (Uganda), constructed this report on the status of the death penalty in East Africa (Kenya and Uganda). In view of the UN Secretary General’s forthcoming report on the question of the death penalty to the 21st session of the UN Human Rights Council (September 2012), civil […]

Report on the status of the death Penalty in Belarus

PRI in collaboration with the Belarusian Human Rights House, Human Rights House Foundation (Geneva), and Human Rights Centre “Viasna” (Belarus), constructed a report on the status of the death penalty in Belarus. In view of the UN Secretary General’s forthcoming report on the question of the death penalty to the 21st session of the UN […]

Capacity-building workshop report from Kiev

From 26-29 March 2012, 37 participants from 12 countries gathered in Kiev for a workshop, kindly sponsored by the Open Society Institute and designed to build the capacity of civil society organisations to monitor human rights standards in places of detention, and to advocate and campaign for improvements based on their findings. Penal Reform International […]

The abolition of the death penalty and its alternative sanction in Eastern Europe: Belarus, Russia and Ukraine

This research paper focuses on the application of the death penalty and its alternative sanction in three countries of Eastern Europe: the Republic of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Its aim is to provide up-to-date information about the laws and practices relating to the application of the death penalty in this region, including an analysis of the alternative sanctions to the […]