Model for Reform
Making Law and Policy that Work is aimed at specialists and non-specialists faced with the responsibility of creating a policy and legislative framework for criminal justice and penal systems. It recognises that criminal justice reform requires expertise and experience in a variety of disciplines which are rarely embodied in one person. It takes into account the […]
Languages: English, French, Spanish
Submission
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 […]
Languages: English
Briefing
This briefing examines the key components of an effective and independent monitoring mechanism for children and explores how they can ensure that their recommendations ultimately lead to improvement in the treatment of children in conflict with the law.
Languages: English, Russian
Report
This desk review (a working draft) aims to increase understanding of the specific legal and policy measures that can work to prevent and remedy violence against children in detention. The review focuses on eight countries: Bangladesh, Georgia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tanzania and Uganda. For each country the review aims to: identify policy and legislative measures […]
Languages: English
International Standard
These include: UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984) Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT) (2002) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (1957) UN Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of […]
Languages: English
Report
Final report from a cross-regional conference organised by PRI on torture prevention in June 2012 in Tbilisi, Georgia The conference aimed to provide opportunities for inter-country learning and exchanging experiences, and to provide recommendations to the authorities in all participating countries for improving the ability of state agencies to prevent torture and ill-treatment in their […]
Languages: English
Report
This research report assesses the legislative framework, conditions of detention and the development of monitoring mechanisms, with a particular focus on the establishment of civil society monitoring mechanisms and the National Preventive Mechanisms under OPCAT, in nine states of the former Soviet Union: Armenia, Azerbaijian, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Ukraine. The research […]
Languages: English, Russian
Report
From 22 – 23 March, PRI hosted a regional forum on torture prevention and rehabilitation was organized in Tbilisi in the framework of the PRI’s project on Strengthening Institutions and Building Civil Society Capacity to Combat Torture in 9 Post-Soviet Countries. The project is funded by the European Union. The regional forum focused on pressing […]
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Submission
PRI responds to the draft new EU Human Rights strategy “A New Direction for the EU on Human Rights and Democracy”
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