Nairobi, 3 October 2016 Today, Penal Reform International (PRI) and the Kenya Probation and Aftercare Service (PAS) publish a research report and short documentary, as partners in a pilot project on women serving community service and probation orders in Kenya. The research seeks to identify and understand the distinct challenges women face when completing these orders […]
September 06, 2016, Astana The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan along with other interested state bodies has drafted a comprehensive strategy for social rehabilitation of individuals released from prison and registered with the Probation Service, which was presented today a roundtable. The strategy was produced in accordance with the National Action […]
PRESS RELEASE – Thursday 2 June 2016 WOMEN WHO KILL THEIR ABUSERS: HOW DO CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS RESPOND? Linklaters LLP and Penal Reform International are today publishing a new multi-jurisdictional study on how women who have killed their abusers following prolonged domestic abuse are treated in law and before the courts. The number of women […]
How can better drug policies help improve prison conditions and protect human rights? Together with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, PRI is organising a side-event at the UN General Assembly Special Session on drugs (UNGASS) on 18 April 2016 on Human rights impacts of drug policies. Monday 18 April 2016 8.30-9.30am […]
OSKEMEN – Today an extended meeting of the East Kazakhstan Regional Commission for Juvenile Affairs and Protection of Their Rights took place in Oskemen, and was dedicated to ‘Modeling Interaction of Institutions and Experts on Child Rights and Juvenile Probation’. The event was arranged by the Akimat (local authority) of the East Kazakhstan Region, jointly […]
Last Thursday the plenary of the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted the revised UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners – to be known as the ‘Nelson Mandela Rules’. ‘PRI is delighted at the successful outcome of this four-year review process. The updating of this key set of widely used standards, last Thursday, is […]
On International Human Rights Day, Penal Reform International in Central Asia – in cooperation with the Committee on Legislation, Judicial and Legal Reform of the Majilis of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, Embassy of the Republic of South Africa in the Republic of Kazakhstan, Regional Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Public Monitoring Commissions of Kazakhstan – […]
ASTANA –KAZGUU together with the European Union Delegation to Kazakhstan, Embassies of Vatican, Switzerland and France, and the Representative office of Penal Reform International in Central Asia held a student debates dedicated to the European and World Day against Death Penalty. The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe decided on 26 September 2007, […]
On March 10-12 2015, the staff of the Kyrgyz National Torture Prevention Center (NTPC) will attend training on the monitoring of detention/custodial restraint for juveniles in Kyrgyzstan. The training is part of a three-year project on Gradual eradication of violence against children in detention in Central Asia implemented jointly by the Youth Human Rights Group Public Association […]
This week, PRI’s Central Asia office is holding a training course in Almaty for the staff of closed institutions on therapeutic responses to address offending and anti-social behaviour by children and adolescents. At the time of writing, there are 95 under-18s in correctional institutions and 167 in specialised schools for children in Kazakhstan. “Amid the political and socio-economic changes taking […]