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 […]
Each year state delegates, UN representatives and civil society organisations gather during the UN General Assembly in New York. This year PRI will be co-hosting two side-events during the Third Committee at the 69th Session of the General Assembly in October 2014 to highlight two particular issues relating to criminal justice and penal policy – human rights of women in custody […]
PRI is among more than 50 leading non-governmental organisations that are urging members of the UN General Assembly to recommend a high-level UN Study on Children Deprived of Liberty to collect sorely needed information on children in detention worldwide. A Global Study is needed in order to accurately define the scope of the problem, identify […]
26 – 30 January 2015 International Conference Centre of Geneva Geneva, Switzerland The first ever World Congress on Juvenile Justice will take place in Geneva in January 2015. This week-long event aims to become a milestone in the implementation of international norms relating to children in conflict with law and children who are victims, survivors […]
Last week, PRI’s Central Asia office organised a conference in Dushanbe, Tajikistan with UNICEF and local partner the Child Rights Centre to raise awareness of the issue of violence against children in closed institutions, share information on regional practice, and to explore the role of the Ombudsman in protecting the rights of children in detention. […]
PRI’s Policy Director, Andrea Huber, recently returned from a pre-deployment training session in Rwanda with the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations. The two-week training was the first of its kind to invite only female trainees as part of an effort to increase the number of female corrections officers involved in peacekeeping. Also for the first […]
تدعو المنظمة الدولية للاصلاح الجنائي مجلس حقوق الانسان وكافة هيئاته إلى اعتبار الافراط في اللجوء إلى الاحتجاز ومسألة الاكتظاظ في السجون والظروف القاسية الناتجة عنه كإحدى قضايا حقوق الانسان الملحة. جاء ذلك في كلمة السيده تغريد جبر المديرة الاقليمية للمنظمة الدولية للإصلاح الجنائي في شمال افريقيا والشرق الأوسط ضمن الجلسة المخصصة لمناقشة أوضاع الأشخاص المحتجزين […]
PRI is calling on the Human Rights Council and its bodies today to address as a human rights issue the overuse of imprisonment and the deplorable overcrowded conditions in prisons that it causes. Read this news article in Arabic / العربية In the Panel Discussion on Persons Deprived of their Liberty during this 27th Regular Session […]