PRI delivered a statement to the 59th session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs against the use of the death penalty for drug-related offences. The statement calls for mention of the death penalty in the outcome document and highlights that executions for drug offences go against international human rights standards. It was delivered on […]
This statement to the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting on 5 October 2012 calls in particular for: Belarus and the United States to take immediate steps to end the use of the death penalty; the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan to abolish the death penalty in law for all crimes; and the Republic […]
The statement calls on states that retain the death penalty to ensure that it is not imposed on those who were under the age of 18 at the time of the alleged offence, or on those who have mental or intellectual disabilities. It also calls on states which retain the death penalty to: ratify relevant […]
An open letter from Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants (CURE) Nigeria in response to governmental proposals to build more prisons in Nigeria.
PRI Death Penalty Project Manager Jacqueline Macalesher gives a presentation on the ‘death row phenomenon’. The death row phenomenon is a relatively new concept, albeit one that has become firmly established in international jurisprudence, and one that has the potential to pressure states to modify their procedures or abandon executions.
Statement given by PRI at the Third Committee of the 126th Inter-Parliamentary Union.
In February 2012, PRI was invited to give expert evidence to the constitutional court of Kazakhstan on periods of detention.
A brief statement of support from PRI for the transfer of Kazakhstan’s prison health services to the Ministry of Health. In order to support the process of transferal, PRI co-organised a conference on the issue.
PRI’s statement on the OSCE’s commitment to the abolition of the death penalty within the region. Whilst acknowledging the progress already made towards this end, it also calls upon those states who still hold the death penalty to alter their justice system to bring it into line with international standards and norms.
A statement following from the Review Conference 2010: ‘Exchange of views on abolition of capital punishment’, held in Warsaw on the 30th Sept-8th Oct.