Penal Reform International and the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS) made a joint statement on drugs and human rights at the 36th Session of the Human Rights Council on 25 September 2017. The statement highlighted how a range of well-documented human rights violations – such as increased police violence and mass incarceration of people involved […]
In this oral statement to the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in May 2017, PRI introduced our new report, Global Prison Trends 2017, published in collaboration with the Thailand Institute of Justice. The report includes a Special Focus section dedicated to the links between the Sustainable Development Goals and criminal justice. The oral statement […]
In this joint oral statement by PRI and the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) to the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in May 2017, the organisations point to specific criminal justice commitments in the Outcome Document of the UNGASS on drugs. Specifically, the oral statement highlights the section on ‘Proportionate and effective policies […]
A joint statement by FIACAT, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty and PRI at the biennial high-level meeting on the death penalty at the Human Rights Council in February 2017. The panel discussion focused on exchanging views to address the human rights violations related to the use of the death penalty, in particular with respect to […]
A statement by PRI to the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting 2016 on the management of extremist offenders in prison and the risk of radicalisation, emphasising the importance of a human-rights based approach.
PRI and the Quaker UN Office delivered this joint oral statement at the Annual Day of Discussion on Women’s Rights at the 32nd Regular Session of the Human Rights Council on 16 June 2016. The morning panel focused on ‘Violence against indigenous women and girls and its root causes’. The statement highlighted: the disproportionate high […]
Statement by PRI on implementation efforts following the adoption of the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules).
This statement was submitted by PRI in April 2016 to inform the Committee’s forthcoming General Comment on Children in Street Situations. Children in street situations face particular risks in relation to the justice system: they are more likely than most children to come into conflict with the law in the first place and once in the […]
PRI and the Friends World Committee for Consultation (Quakers) submitted this joint statement at the plenary panel at the 31st regular session of the Human Rights Council on addressing human rights issues in the context of efforts to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030 (one of the Sustainable Development Goals). The statement highlights challenges around HIV/AIDS […]
This joint NGO statement was presented to the reconvened UN Crime and Drug Commission session in Vienna in December 2015 on behalf of Amnesty International, Anti Death Penalty Asia Network, Harm Reduction International, International Drug Policy Consortium, Penal Reform International and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty. The statement calls for States to use the opportunity presented […]