Use of life and long-term sentences has been growing globally. In 2012, of the 2.3 million prisoners in US prisons, 159,520 were serving life sentences, including almost 50,000 life without parole. Nancy Mullane was a winner in PRI’s journalism competition held as part of our death penalty abolition programme in 2014. While the competition was judged on the basis […]
Uganda has ended its opposition to a global moratorium on the use of the death penalty. At the UN General Assembly on 21 November 2014, Uganda abstained on the measure, changing after seven years of voting against. The country is one of ten where PRI is working to abolish the death penalty and implement humane alternative sanctions. […]
On 3 and 4 November, PRI’s Middle East and North Africa office co-organised a large international conference with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and under the patronage of his Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan. This conference marked the end of a three year project (2011-2014) funded by the Swedish International […]
The event was jointly organised with the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, the Christian Social Service and the Belarusian Association of Journalists. Over 80 people attended the conference including experts from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and Poland, as well as government representatives, diplomats, lawyers, and human rights defenders. This conference was held under a PRI project funded by […]
On Tuesday this week, PRI took part in an Expert Consultation on Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty hosted by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Professor Juan Méndez, at the American University Washington College of Law in Washington DC. 30 experts attended the consultation to discuss legal standards, best practices, and an array of topics […]
PRI’s International Conference on ‘Criminal Justice Reform and Human Rights: Recent Trends’ opened today (3 November) in Amman under the patronage of His Majesty King Abdullah II Ibn Alhussein of Jordan. The two day conference is organised by Penal Reform International (MENA) in collaboration with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Public Security […]
In 2014, PRI held an international competition for the best investigative journalism on the death penalty and/or life imprisonment. Nancy was awarded the English language prize for two episodes of Life of the Law, an online radio magazine covering legal issues: One Reporter on California’s Death Row, and Jailhouse Lawyers. Jailhouse Lawyers explores a little known anomaly in the US legal landscape. Although […]
Belarus is the only country in Europe that continues to carry out the death penalty. The process is shrouded in secrecy. Not even families are necessarily informed about the time of execution or the place of burial. While they are not permitted to attend executions or to visit prisoners on death row, there are journalists who are committed to piecing together […]
20 November 2014 will be the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) – now the most widely ratified human rights treaty in the world. As part of a week-long series of events marking the occasion, the University of Leiden is holding an international ‘Conference 25 Years […]
Penal Reform International (PRI) is delighted to welcome to London the winners of its inaugural competition for the best journalism investigating the death penalty and life (or long-term) imprisonment this week. Following review by panels of judges, the three winners will travel to London in October to visit the offices of The Guardian newspaper and meet […]