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 […]
ASTANA, KAZAKHSTAN. On 24 October 2012 a conference will take place in Astana on the theme: ‘Reducing the spread of tuberculosis in the penitentiary and post-penitentiary sphere’, with the cooperation of the Ministry of Health and financial support from the European Union. ‘Although tuberculosis within the penitentiary system is a serious challenge in and of […]
UST-KAMENOGORSK – A coordination meeting of state officials and Ust-Kamenogorsk civil society representatives will be held on 4 September 2012 in the conference-hall of «SHINY RIVER» hotel. The meeting will be held within the framework of the project “A model programme against the spread of HIV/AIDS and TB in women’s prisons”, implemented by Penal Reform […]
Astana, 22nd August 2012 Penal Reform International, jointly with Harm Reduction International, held a conference on “HIV Prevention and harm reduction in prisons of Kazakhstan” on 22 August. The conference was held within the framework of the PRI project “The programme for HIV/AIDS and TB prevention in female prisons”, which was launched in 2011 and […]
PRI is organising a cross-regional conference on torture prevention on 25-26 June at the Sheraton Metechi Palace Hotel in Tbilisi. The conference will be streamed live and you can follow the conference via webcast. The cross-regional conference aims to provide opportunities for inter-country learning and exchanges of experience. It will also seek to provide recommendations […]
On 28 February 2012 at 10am Penal Reform International Office in Central Asia will hold a round table organized within the framework of a project on «Rehabilitation of ex-prisoners and protection of their rights by joint efforts of civil society and State» supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Work with ex-prisoners in the regions […]
Announcement January 25, 2012 at 11am Penal Reform International in Central Asia will hold a press conference. Ex-prisoners, the Ambassador of Norway to Kazakhstan, the Regional Director of Penal Reform International’s (PRI) Central Asia Office and national experts in criminal justice will take part in the press conference. In January of this year Penal Reform […]
During December 2011 and January 2012, PRI hosted four film festivals in Belarus, Jordan, Kazakhstan and Tbilisi on the abolition of the death penalty and its alternative sanction of life imprisonment. The film festivals were held with the financial assistance of the European Union under the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) and […]
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, […]