On Human Rights Day, 10 December, PRI’s Central Asia office held a film festival to raise awareness of the damaging impact that imprisonment has on prisoners, their families and the staff who run the prisons themselves. Saule Mektepbareva, PRI’s Regional Director and Alison Hannah, Executive Director opened the festival, showing in a local cinema, and […]
Issues on prevention of HIV/AIDS in Kazakhstan prisons to be discussed within the framework of an EU project ASTANA – A round table on ‘Prevention of HIV/AIDS in prison system in Kazakhstan’ with the support of the European Union will be held on 6 December 2011 in the conference hall of the Jumbaktas hotel. During the conference, […]
PRI in partnership with Freedom from Torture will host a three day training on on rehabilitation of torture victims for staff of public organizations of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Tajikistan between 31 October and 2 November in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The main goal of the training is to teach participants (doctors, psychologists, […]
(30 November 2011) On 10 and 11 November, nearly 300 representatives from over 90 countries gathered in Geneva to take stock of progress and challenges in the prevention of torture, five years after the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture entered into force. The Global Forum was organised by the Association for the Prevention […]
Within the framework of the Torture Prevention project two consecutive events were organised in Tbilisi for experts from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia between 23 – 30 November 2011. One event was training of trainers provided by Freedom from Torture on holistic rehabilitation issues and the other was an expert meeting with the researcher from the […]
On 27 November 2011, PRI attended the 18th Session of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (The Committee) in Algiers to advocate for the better protection of the rights of the children of incarcerated parents. PRI’s position on this important child rights issue is outlined in a recently […]
The main goal of the event is to evaluate the current situation in the penitentiary system, discuss the reform of the criminal and correctional laws including development of the punishment system, introduction of alternatives to imprisonment, prevention of religious extremism among prisoners, as well as further development of the civil control system. The conference will […]
(23 Nov 2011) Ahead of a consultation meeting with civil society on 14 November PRI submitted comments on the draft new EU Human Rights Strategy, “New Direction for the EU on Human Rights and Democracy”. The comments were also submitted to the European External Action Service, the EU Human Rights Working Group (COHOM) and Members […]
PRI submits observations to the Committee against Torture on the interpretation of the right to redress (article 14 of the UN Convention against Torture) in response to the draft comments of the committees interpretation of the right. The observations detail the right to redress in relation to a number of issues including compensation; holistic rehabilitation, […]
PRI at the UN Committee against Torture: review of Belarus On 10 November 2011, Penal Reform International, along with a group of independent Belarusian human rights NGOs, with the cooperation of Human Rights House, provided oral evidence in relation to the review of Belarus at the 47th session of the United Nations Committee against Torture. […]