On 6-8 November, PRI is co-hosting an Africa Alternatives to Imprisonment Conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in partnership with the Government Probation Departments in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and our local NGO partners in the region. Prison overcrowding is a serious problem in East Africa. The occupancy rate of prisons in Tanzania is over […]
Next week on Wednesday 16 October, PRI will launch a Toolbox on the UN Bangkok Rules at the UN General Assembly to support implementation of the Rules. A panel discussion, ‘The human rights of women in prison: A toolbox to implement the UN Bangkok Rules’ will illustrate how the needs of women prisoners tend to be overlooked […]
The study found that nearly 64% of Belarusians support the death penalty, a number significantly down from the 80% who supported it in a 1996 referendum. There was also widespread support for alternative measures, with concerns about capital punishment ranging from belief in the sanctity of human life to fears about possible judicial error. The […]
Prisoners Abroad are currently looking for a caseworker for their office in London. Deadline 21st October 2013. Click here for more information.
PRI has been invited by the Government of India to attend and present at the Asian and Pacific Conference of Correctional Administrators (APCCA) taking place in Delhi, India from 23 – 27 September 2013. PRI will be chairing the fourth day of the conference: the session on ‘Alternatives to Imprisonment: Challenges in Developing Community-based Supervision […]
PRI will be attending the OSCE’s annual Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) in Warsaw taking place between 23 September – 4 October. Our statement addressed to the participating states of the OSCE in the working session addressing violence against women and girls, includes recommendations on implementing the UN Bangkok Rules, in light of the OSCE’s Action […]
We are pleased to announce the creation of our PRI MENA region Facebook page. Through our page, which will be updated with content from the website, we will provide yet another opportunity for those who wish to share experiences ,ideas with others, and stay connected to our news and events. We invite you to follow […]
PRI welcomes the opportunity to attend and present its work at the first World Congress on Probation which will take place from 8-10 October 2013. On 10 October, PRI Programme Director, Nikhil Roy, will present the session ‘Introducing community sentences in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh’, speaking alongside Zakir Shuaib the author of PRI’s report Probation […]
On 9 August 2013, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Juan Méndez, issued a report on the current review of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (SMR). The report states that the revision process is ‘an opportunity to enhance understanding of the scope and nature of the prohibition against torture and […]
PRI delivered a statement about children of parents sentenced to death at a United Nations panel on the issue on Wednesday 11 September 2013. The statement, one of five given by NGOs, focused on how children can be supported following exoneration or commutation of their parent’s death sentence. Oliver Robertson, PRI Project Manager for Death Penalty […]