International Standard

Key international standards, norms and guidelines relating to life imprisonment

These include:

Life imprisonment, UN Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch’s Report (1994), UN Document ST/CSDHA/24

Eighth UN Congress on the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders (27 August – 7 September 1990), Resolution 20: Assessment for the release of life sentence prisoners, UN Document A/CONF.144/28/Rev.1

Council of Europe, Committee of Ministers Recommendation to member states on the management by prison administrations of life sentence and other long-term prisoners, adopted 9 October 2003.

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (Nelson Mandela Rules)

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