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Discrimination against women in the criminal justice system highlighted in PRI statement to the IPU today

PRI’s Chairman, David Daubney, will today deliver a statement to the Interparliamentary Union’s 127th Assembly in Quebec on discrimination against women in criminal justice systems. The statement will be delivered during a special debate on Citizenship, identity and linguistic and cultural diversity in a globalized world.  The statement focuses particularly on discrimination faced by women prisoners, and […]

Bryan Stevenson: Why mass incarceration defines us as a society

Last June, in two cases brought by Bryan Stevenson, in a landmark judgment, the US Supreme Court ruled that sentencing children to life without parole including for murder, without ever giving them a chance to prove that he or she had been rehabilitated, constituted cruel and unusual punishment. As well as profiling Stevenson’s work to […]

PRI and Freedom from Torture produce course manual for holistic rehabilitation for torture survivors

Torture has such a devastating impact that survivors may need help on a number of levels to effectively rebuild their lives. Holistic rehabilitation takes into account the varied and complex needs of torture survivors to help them to regain full physical, emotional and psychological health. In 2011, Freedom from Torture (previously the Medical Foundation for the Victims of […]

PRI MENA and the Yemeni Prison Directorate cooperate to protect vulnerable groups and train prison staff

Last week, Taghreed Jaber, Regional Director of PRI’s Middle East and North Africa (PRI MENA) office, and Yemen’s Prisons Director, Major General Mohamed Ali Alzelb, signed an agreement of cooperation for an initiative to protect vulnerable groups in Yemeni prisons and to provide training for Yemeni prison staff. The initiative is part of a wider […]

PRI Central Asia interviewed for a Channel Eurasia feature on the death penalty

PRI Central Asia’s Azamat Shambilov was interviewed as part of a Channel Eurasia feature on popular opinion on the death penalty in Kazakstan on World Day Against the Death Penalty last week. Click here to view it (in Russian)

PRI Statement on World Day Against the Death Penalty 10 October 2012

World Day Against the Death Penalty is organised by the World Coalition against the Death Penalty to raise government and public awareness about the continuing use of the death penalty around the world. Since the World Day was first held a decade ago, significant progress has been made towards ending the death penalty, with 141 […]

55 years on: modernising the UN Standard Minimum Rules for Treatment of Prisoners

Ahead of an Inter-governmental Expert Group meeting (IEGM) on the Review of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners in Buenos Aires in December, a summary of outcomes from an independent experts’ meeting held at the University of Essex on 3 and 4 October 2012 on the proposed reform of the Rules […]

The OSCE has published its annual background paper on the death penalty in OSCE states

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presented this year’s background paper on the death penalty in the OSCE region yesterday at the annual OSCE human rights conference in Warsaw. This year’s paper reports on developments in the OSCE area, including Latvia’s ratification of Protocol 13 to the European Convention on Human Rights, which […]

PRI hosts a workshop on alternatives to detention in Jordan

PRI’s Middle East and North Africa office held a two-day workshop on ‘Alternative sanctions to detention: prospects for and ways of promoting their application in Jordan’ this week by the Dead Sea. Participating were representatives of media organisations in Jordan, audio-visual, print and electronic media,  along with civil society organisations active in the field of […]

Report from Conference on Violence against Children in Juvenile Justice Systems now available

This international conference on Violence against Children in Juvenile Justice Systems was held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan jointly with UNICEF, with support from the European Union, the Department of International Development and the British Embassy in Bishkek. Participants from approximately 14 countries attended, including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Georgia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Tanzania, and […]