At the end of last week, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution without a vote (so with consensus), calling for a panel debate at the Council on children of parents sentenced to death or executed. Children are often the forgotten victims of the death penalty, and suffer extreme emotional trauma and stigma from […]
PRI’s Central Asia office are running training for 25 journalists on reporting on penal reform issues in Astana this week. The training will be led by a team of experts from the United Kingdom, including Malcolm Dean, former Guardian journalist, now working for the Guardian Foundation, and from Kazakhstan. The goal of the event is to […]
PRI’s Policy Director Andrea Huber will be joining Rashida Manjoo, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women on a side-event panel on Violence against Women in Custodial Settings at the Commission on the Status of Women in New York today. International human rights law requires that all people deprived of their liberty should be treated humanely […]
Together with six other organisation, PRI has issued an updated briefing on the review of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners. This briefing is issued ahead of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to be held from 22 to 26 April in Vienna. The report and recommendations of […]
PRI would like to take the opportunity on International Women’s Day to promote better treatment of women in prison worldwide. Whilst the Bangkok Rules were adopted over a year ago there is still a long way to go to implement the Rules. On 6 March PRI, with the Thai Permanent Representation to the UN, OMCT and Quaker […]
Last week PRI welcomed a delegation of judicial and prison staff from Turkey to its London office, facilitated by Marianne Moore of the Justice Studio and UNICEF Turkey. The main purpose of the visit was to learn more about good practice in juvenile justice, looking particularly at sentencing policies for young offenders, diversion and non-custodial options and treatment and […]
From 18-22 February PRI will be delivering a five-day Training of Trainers in Human Rights for prison officials and heads of training institutions in Maputo, Mozambique. The training is the second such workshop to take place as part of a project sponsored by the Commonwealth Secretariat Human Rights Unit. The first training, which took place […]
On 9 March, PRI’s Middle East and North Africa office will launch a national independent team for monitoring care centres in Jordan in partnership with the Ministry of Social Development. The 35-strong taskforce was formed following an agreement signed earlier between PRI and the Ministry of Social Development. The monitoring team will be granted access […]
PRI’s Middle East and North Africa office are currently organising workshops on justice for children in Sanaa, Yemen, in partnership with General Administration of Juvenile Police, and the Foundation, Together for Development and Human Rights. Forty-five police officers from the Department of Women, Juveniles, and the Interior Ministry’s branches in Yemeni provinces attended the training. Speaking […]
The minimum age of criminal responsibility set by different countries ranges hugely from as low as six up to 18 years of age. The median age is 12. However, in nearly all countries, children above the age of criminal responsibility can be arrested, detained and imprisoned. This means that children are drawn at an early […]