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 […]
From 12 – 16 November 2012 PRI attended and participated in the UNICEF Conference ‘A Better Way to Protect All Children’ held in New Delhi. The conference brought together over 160 policy makers, academics, practitioners and other experts from around the world to discuss the development and reform of child protection systems including exploring new […]
PRI will be engaging on two priority issues at the 24th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council which will open on 9 September in Geneva: the abolition of the death penalty and the human rights impact of the overuse of imprisonment. The session will run for three weeks and the agenda is packed, with over 40 resolutions […]
PRI’s Middle East and North Africa office organized a training workshop to discuss a case study on the non-custodial measures in the juvenile justice system, “A case study in Jordan, Egypt and Yemen”, between 25-26, August 2013, at Al Bustan Hotel in Sana’a, Yemen. The event took place under the patronage of His Excellency, the […]
PRI MENA has signed a memorandum of cooperation on Thursday, August 29, 2013 with the Sisterhood Is Global Institute, SIGI – Amman for the Rehabilitation and Aftercare of prisoners in the correctional centers. The agreement was signed by Her Excellency Asma Khader – Secretary General of the Jordanian National Commission for Women Sisterhood Is Global […]
PRI’s Middle East and North Africa office organised a Egyptian Delegation round table in Amman this week on implementing the use of educational measures and non-custodial alternatives mentioned in the Egyptian Child’s Rights. The meeting was chaired by His Excellency Counselor Ahmed Hamdi Abdel Hamid ElSergany, Assistant to the Minister of Justice for Human Rights […]
Human Rights Education Associates (HREA), specialists in human rights education and e-learning, are running an online course on safeguards against torture and ill-treatment with PRI’s Policy Director Andrea Huber as instructor from 16 October to 26 November. Numerous conventions and standards have been adopted at regional and international level to respond to and prevent the […]
On 25 July Penal Reform International (PRI)’s South Caucasus office took part in a monitoring visit to Prison No.17 in Rustavi. Monitors met with the prisoners on hunger strike. Visitors included Nazi Janezashvili from PRI, and representatives of partner organisations, such as Nino Gelashvili and Tamta Vephkvadze from Youth for Justice and Nino Elizbarashvili from Women […]
PRI welcomes the decision by the Supreme Court of India to uphold the Juvenile Justice Act (2000) and not to lower the age of the child in criminal cases. On 17 July 2013, the Court rejected petitions which requested amending the Juvenile Justice Act to lower the age of the child. If successful, the amendment […]