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اثناء أعمال جلسات الدورة السابعه والعشرون لمجلس حقوق الانسان والمخصصة لمناقشة أوضاع الأشخاص المحتجزين والاكتظاظ في السجون والمنعقدة في جنيف في الفترة ما بين

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 […]

First international guidance on addressing needs of children of incarcerated parents launched in South Africa

From 3–5 September 2014, Keeping Children Safe (KCS) held an international conference in Cape Town to promote the Child Safeguarding Standards. As part of the conference programme, PRI – represented by Alison Hannah, PRI’s Executive Director and Jenny Clarkin, PRI Programme Officer – co-organised the launch of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the […]

PRI to pilot a new model of achieving effective scale-up of community service in East Africa

PRI is pleased to be able to continue its work supporting community service and other alternatives to imprisonment in three countries of East Africa through a new grant from the UK Government (UKAid). The project – Excellence in Training on Rehabilitation in Africa or ‘EXTRA’ – will pilot a new model to increase the effectiveness of the delivery of […]

UN Committee makes recommendations to Georgia on women in prison

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has issued its Concluding observations on Georgia’s combined fourth and fifth periodic reports, examined in July 2014. Read the report here. Regarding women in detention, the Committee expressed concern at the lack of gender sensitive, accessible and evidence-based drug treatment programmes for women and recommended the provision of ‘gender sensitive and evidence […]

PRI’s workshop at the American Probation and Parole Association’s Training Institute

PRI will be running a workshop at the American Probation and Parole Association’s Annual Training Institute that will take place in New Orleans between 3 – 6 August 2014. The workshop ‘An international perspective on women in the justice system: Best practices for their success beyond the criminal justice system’ will look at both challenges and solutions for […]