Penal Reform International (PRI) in cooperation with the Public Security Directorate / Juvenile Police Department is organizing the First National Conference on Juvenile Justice: “Justice for Children” on 20 – 21 August 2013. The event is held under the patronage of His Excellency Dr. Abdullah Ensour, the Prime Minister of Jordan. The conference will focus […]
Amman, July 30, 2013 The National Independent Inspection team delivers its first inspection reports to the Minister of Social Development, and the Minister representing the Government of Jordan promised to follow the recommendations of the team. In a press conference organized by Penal Reform International (PRI) and the Ministry of Social Development on July […]
Penal Reform International (PRI) held the third meeting for the National Independent Inspection Team for monitoring care centers in Jordan on Wednesday, 24 July 2013 at Le Royal Hotel in Amman in the presence of the PRI acting director, Haitham Shibli and National Independent Inspection Team members. The team recently launched their first inspection visit […]
On 15 June 2013, PRI and its local NGO partner BLAST, will be holding a national roundtable on violence against children in pre-trial and police detention. The roundtable, will be chaired by the Hon Justice M Imman Ali, of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, and a PRI Board Member, and will include representatives from government and […]
PRI’s Policy Director Andrea Huber will be joining Rashida Manjoo, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women on a side-event panel on Violence against Women in Custodial Settings at the Commission on the Status of Women in New York today. International human rights law requires that all people deprived of their liberty should be treated humanely […]
From 16-18 March 2013, PRI, in partnership with HAQ Centre for Child Rights, the National Law University-Delhi, UNICEF India, Save the Children-India, Cordaid, UK Department for Development and Child Fund- India, will host an International Colloquim on Juvenile Justice in Delhi. The purpose of the colloquium is to reflect upon the variety of problems different […]
PRI’s Central Asia office are running training for 25 journalists on reporting on penal reform issues in Astana this week. The training will be led by a team of experts from the United Kingdom, including Malcolm Dean, former Guardian journalist, now working for the Guardian Foundation, and from Kazakhstan. The goal of the event is to […]
On 27-28 February, Prison, Police and Probation officials and the Judiciary from four provinces in Pakistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Baluchistan and Sindh, as well as local civil society organisations and international criminal justice experts, will participate in a Conference ‘Criminal Justice Reform in Pakistan – Developing Alternatives to Prison’. The Conference will focus on prison […]
ASTANA – On 19 February 2013, Penal Reform International in Central Asia will be organizing a roundtable on “The death penalty and life imprisonment as forms of punishment in the new Criminal Code”. The roundtable will be held in the Mazhilis (lower house) of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Penal Reform International (PRI) […]
PRESS RELEASE There have been recent media comments on the report from the Public Monitoring Commissions’ (PMCs) visit to Zhanaozen with the assistance of Penal Reform International (PRI)’s Central Asia office. PRI considers some clarification necessary in light of these comments, and confirms the following points: 1. At the end of December 2011 the Public Monitoring […]