Today (10 October 2022) marks the 20th World Day Against the Death Penalty. Every year on 10 October, the World Day seeks unify the global abolitionist movement and mobilise civil society, political leaders, lawyers, and the public to support the call for universal abolition of capital punishment. This year, the World Day is dedicated to […]
On 13 June, 26 women from Mbale Women’s Prison were certified in small business management. The women, who had completed one month’s training in business development, entrepreneurship and strategic business planning, also received startup capital ranging from Shs3m to Shs7m, to launch their own business to support themselves and their families upon release. At the ceremony, one of the beneficiaries said, “When I was […]
From 13 – 16 September 2021, Capstone Project human rights research competition alumni and representatives of Kazakhstani higher education institutions met in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, to discuss the prospects for the development and further improvement of human rights research in the country. The audience was presented with the methodology and results of the Capstone Project implemented […]
As part of our support to the Central African Ministry of Justice for the implementation of the national strategy for the demilitarization of the CAR’s prisons, Penal Reform International, as implementing partner of MINUSCA initiated and organised a vocational training for people detained in Ngaragba, Bimbo and Berberati prisons in CAR. The objectives of this […]
Nur-Sultan city Today, on July 8, at the International Online Forum “The […]
Over a year on from the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, this seventh edition of Global Prison Trends is published jointly by Penal Reform International (PRI) and the Thailand Institute of Justice (TIJ). This report documents key trends over the past year, especially the impact of the pandemic on prison populations and staff, and how […]
A new briefing, Coronavirus: Preventing harm and human rights violations in criminal justice systems, highlights the impact of responses to COVID-19 on people in detention – amounting to 11 million people – who have been left behind, ignored or forgotten. Penal Reform International exposes a lack of systematic testing and data collection in prisons across the globe, which means unknown numbers of people in detention and staff are falling ill and dying […]
The number of women and girls in prison globally increased by more than 50% since the start of the century. Overincarceration of women due to drug-related offences is not the result of an increase of criminal activities. Harsh drug policies affect women because such policies are blind to the factors behind women’s involvement in drug […]
The first penitentiary forum of Tajikistan took place in Dushanbe on 20 November 2019. The forum is organized by the initiative of the Main Directorate for the Execution of the Criminal Sentences of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Tajikistan and the Penal Reform International (PRI) within the support of the European Union […]
On 20-21 December 2016, over 50 policy-makers, justice professionals and other experts gathered from around Central Asia for a workshop convened by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime – in co-operation with PRI and hosted by the Government of Tajikistan – in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Discussions centered around the importance of rehabilitation programmes in prison, […]