Falling through the Cracks, PRI’s submission to the 19th Session of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, briefs the Committee on the difficulties facing children of imprisoned parents in Africa, and urges it to consider drafting a General Comment on Article 30 of the African Charter which would […]
PRI’s statement to the 126th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Kampala, Uganda in April 2012 focused on the overuse of imprisonment. PRI also gave a short statement to the 3rd Committee on the issue of access to health as a basic right for women and girls in prison.
PRI responds to the draft new EU Human Rights strategy “A New Direction for the EU on Human Rights and Democracy”
Ahead of its 103rd session, Penal Reform International submitted information to the Human Rights Committee on Armenia. The briefing outlines PRI’s concerns with regard to the excessive use of pre-trial detention in Armenia, while alternative non-custodial preventive measures are hardly ever applied. Even after the release of 508 prisoners under an amnesty in May 2011, […]
In August 2011, PRI submitted 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 […]
Below are two statements PRI submitted to the 20th Session of the Human Rights Council (18 June – 6 July 2012). Both statements were issued jointly with the Friends World Committee for Consultation (Quakers). Both statements were – and had to be – related to the respective reports these bodies had submitted to the Human […]
A joint statement urging the African Commission to adopt a resolution calling for the abolition of the death penalty in Africa on the ground that it constitutes a violation of the African Charter, specifically as a violation of the right to life (article 4) and the right not to be subject to torture, cruel, inhuman […]
PRI submitted the paper below as a contribution for the UN CRC Day of General Discussion 2011 on Children of Incarcerated Parents. It urges states to implement the Bangkok Rules and consider children’s best interests at all points of their parent’s involvement with the criminal justice system. Click here to read the CRC Report and Recommendations from […]
Statement to the OSCE HDIM on the importance of civil society participation in detention monitoring, held in Warsaw, Poland in September 2011.
In August 2010, PRI co-sponsored a proposal to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, recommending that a Day of General Discussion on children of prisoners in 2011 is held.