128 delegates from 26 countries including 21 African countries attended a conference in Lilongwe, Malawi, from 22-24 November 2004, to discuss legal aid services in the criminal justice systems in Africa. After three days of deliberations, the Lilongwe Declaration on Accessing Legal Aid in the Criminal Justice System in Africa was adopted by consensus at […]
Like many other countries, the legal system in Bangladesh is formal, complex, urban-based, time consuming and expensive. This leaves many Bangladeshis, especially the poor, illiterate or disadvantaged living in rural areas, unable to enforce their rights through the formal justice system. This publication describes how the Madaripur Legal Aid Association (MLAA) use community-based mediation as […]
Document published in French and English.
Drawing on farming and management practices in East and Southern Africa and PRI’s experience on the continent, this manual provides a framework for prison services to consider in seeking to improve productivity in their prison farms and end the pattern of under-production. It is not a blueprint, but is illustrative of what can be done […]
This publication is based on a study written by Joanna Stevens for Penal Reform International in December 1998, entitled Traditional and Informal Justice Systems in Africa, South Asia and the Caribbean. This publication focuses primarily on traditional and informal justice systems in sub-Saharan Africa, reflecting the wealth of material available from the region in contrast […]
The Commonwealth Caribbean Human Rights Seminar took place from 12-14 September 2000 in Belize City, Belize, and was attended by delegates from the Commonwealth region and beyond. Important topics addressed at the conference include legal aid and access to justice, evolving international attitudes towards the death penalty, gender and equal treatment under the law and […]
the Kampala Declaration on Health in Prisons in Africa was adopted by the participants at the Kampala Workshop on Prison Health, held in Kampala, Uganda, on 12-13 December 1999. The declaration outlines some of the structural problems and general conditions of detention that negatively impact on prisoners’ health and recommends measures to betaken by governments, […]
In April 1999, representatives from fifty countries in all five continents met in Surrey, England to consider A New Approach for Penal Reform in a New Century. Government ministers and officials, parliamentarians, judges and representatives of international, regional and national nongovernmental organisations concerned with penal reform and human rights discussed the role of the criminal […]