Joint NGO Briefing: The process of Review of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners

This joint NGO briefing provides information on the process of the review of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners.  

The review of the UN Standard Minimum Rules was initiated in December 2010 and completed in December 2015 when the revised Rules were adopted by the UN General Assembly – as the Nelson Mandela Rules.

See also:

• Short guide to the revised UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (Nelson Mandela Rules)
• Animated introduction to the Nelson Mandela Rules
• The ‘Essex paper’ on the review of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners submitted to the UN in preparation for the second intergovernmental expert group meeting (IEGM) on the review in Buenos Aires in December 2012
• The second report of the Essex group of experts submitted to the UN ahead of the third IEGM in Vienna in March 2014
• Report of the 4th Intergovernmental Expert Group Meeting held in Cape Town, South Africa in March 2015