Between 16-20 July 2011 PRI MENA Regional Office in Jordan coorganised a training workshop for human rights specialists representing civil societies promoting the abolition of the death penalty in the MENA Region.The group of fifteen participants working directly in the field of death penalty abolition from seven countries (Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, Yemen, Tunisia, Sudan, Lebanon […]
Recommendations from the conference on death penalty in East Africa: Challenges, Strategies and Comparative Jurisprudence. It was held in Nairobi, Kenya on the 24th-27th July 2011.
In July 2011, PRI co-organised a regional conference in Tbilisi on the issue of life imprisonment in the South Caucasus region. This report denotes the recommendations from the participants of the conference. REGIONAL CONFERENCE LIFE IMPRISONMENT IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS REGION RECOMMENDATIONS of the conference participants 15 July 2011 Sheraton Metechi Palace hotel, Tbilisi, Georgia
In July 2011, PRI organised a national conference in Azerbaijan on the issue of life imprisonment in the Azerbaijan. This report denotes the recommendations from the participants of the conference.
PRI submits observations to the Committee against Torture on the interpretation of the right to redress (article 14 of the UN Convention against Torture) in response to the draft comments of the committees interpretation of the right. The observations detail the right to redress in relation to a number of issues including compensation; holistic rehabilitation, […]
Between December 2010 and April 2012 PRI conducted an 18 month project in Tanzania to support multi- agency monitoring of places of detention of Children. With the financial support of UNICEF Tanzania PRI worked with local agencies to develop monitoring tools and an IT based system to collect, collate and analyse the results of monitoring visits conducted by mandated […]
On the 9th June 2011 the General Assembly of the United Nations, Human Rights Council drafted this optional protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, thereby establishing a communications procedure.
This report documents a workshop held in Kigali, Rwanda from the 9th-11th May 2011. The workshop was the second in the series and was framed around the issue of alternative sentencing and strategies to reduce prison overcrowding.
A report of a three day Human Rights training session held from the 12th-14th April 2011 at Peshawar Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
A series of resources on the issues surrounding the death penalty. Published in French.