Resources listing

Training

PRI Training Manual No.1: Human Rights and Vulnerable Prisoners

This manual is a resource for those who deliver training and workshops on human rights in prisons. It explores the fundamentals of good prison management, focusing specifically on international standards for the treatment of prisoners and the special needs of vulnerable categories of prisoner.

Languages: English, Farsi, French, Spanish

Training

Making Standards Work: an international handbook on good prison practice

This handbook presents an overview of the UN rules on prison conditions and treatment of prisoners and explains their value and meaning for prison policy and practice, in order to promote further implementation of recognised international rules. It has been written for those working with prisoners or responsible for their care and treatment: prison policy-makers, prison […]

Languages: Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Russian, Spanish

Training

The Torture Reporting Handbook

Written by Camille Giffard at the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, The Torture Reporting Handbook explains how to document and respond to allegations of torture. This edition is the Farsi translation.

Languages: Farsi

Model for Reform

A New Agenda For Penal Reform

In April 1999, representatives from fifty countries in all five continents met in Surrey, England to consider A New Approach for Penal Reform in a New Century. Government ministers and officials, parliamentarians, judges and representatives of international, regional and national nongovernmental organisations concerned with penal reform and human rights discussed the role of the criminal […]

Languages: English, Farsi, French, Pashto, Spanish

Training

Human Rights and Pre-trial Detention

Human Rights and Pre-trial Detention is a handbook of international standards relating to pre-trial detention. Originally published by the United Nations 1994, PRI has translated the handbook into Farsi.

Languages: Farsi