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 […]
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 […]