This joint statement on Children of imprisoned parents was submitted to the 22nd session of the Crime Commission with the Friends World Committee for Consultation (Quakers), 15 April 2013 (E/CN.15/2013/NGO/4)
Submission by PRI and the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, Uganda, to the UN Secretary General for his 2013 report on the question of the death penalty.
Call to parliamentarians, while they work towards the post-2015 agenda, to take into account all drivers of poverty, including unfair criminal justice systems and disproportionate imprisonment, which indirectly criminalise the poor and marginalised, and work towards promoting and protecting the rule of law and access to justice as a founding norm for achieving sustainable development.
PRI delivered a statement in a panel session – ‘The Legalisation of drugs: can it help curb organised crime?’ at the 128th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Quito, Ecuador in March 2013. The statement flags the often disproportionate criminalisation, with little differentiation between use and possession on one end of the scale and large-scale commercial […]
Written submission to the 54th session of CEDAW on 18 February 2013, drawing the Committee’s attention to the problems faced by women defendants and women prisoners in accessing justice, which are often overlooked.
Joint submission with the Friends World Committee for Consultation.
The statement stresses that a combination of preventive work by National Preventive Mechanisms (looking at more general risk factors) and reactive monitoring by civil society (taking up and reporting on individual cases of ill-treatment) is both necessary and ideal for increasing the effectiveness of monitoring and bringing an end to the practice of torture and […]
In view of the UN Secretary General’s forthcoming report on the implementation of a moratorium on the use of the death penalty for the 67th session of the UN General Assembly (September 2012), civil society organisations were invited to share information covering relevant developments since 21 December 2010 on the implementation of a moratorium on […]
This statement to the 21st Session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice was issued under standing agenda item 8 on use and application of UN standards and norms in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice, including their use and application to be discussed on 27 April 2012 in Vienna. […]
In view of the UN Secretary General’s forthcoming report on the implementation of a moratorium on the use of the death penalty for the 67th session of the UN General Assembly (September 2012), civil society organisations were invited to share information covering relevant developments since 21 December 2010 on the implementation of a moratorium on […]