The 3rd Committee of UN General Assembly adopted the draft Principles and Guidelines on Access to Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems last week. The Committee had before it a draft resolution, recommended for adoption by the Economic and Social Council. It adopted the draft resolution and recommended it for final approval by the General […]
Wednesday, 24 October 2012 6:15 pm – 7:45 pm Conference Room E, North Lawn Building (NLB) New York This side-event is organised by the Special Procedures Branch of the OHCHR in cooperation with PRI and the World Organisation against Torture (OMCT). The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Mr Christof Heyns, and the […]
On Monday, PRI’s Middle East and North Africa office celebrated World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse at the Rehabilitation Centre for Juveniles in Amman. The event was organised in partnership with the Ministry of Social Development and was attended by 28 children detained at the centre, the Director of the Jordanian Juvenile Police, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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’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)
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 […]
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 […]