Resources listing

Report

Women in detention: a guide to gender-sensitive monitoring

This resource from PRI and the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) is designed to help bodies monitoring places of detention incorporate a gender perspective into their work and to address the problem of violence against women and girls in detention. This guide introduces the UN Bangkok Rules and other relevant sources of international law […]

Languages: Uzbek, Arabic, English, French, Georgian, Russian, Spanish, Tajik

Model for Reform

Making Law and Policy that Work

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

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Violence against children in juvenile justice systems: International conference report

This international conference on Violence against Children in Juvenile Justice Systems was held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan jointly with UNICEF, with support from the European Union, the Department of International Development and the British Embassy in Bishkek. Participants from approximately 14 countries attended, including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Georgia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Tanzania, and […]

Languages: English

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A review of law and policy to prevent and remedy violence against children in police and pre-trial detention: Overview (draft)

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

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Cross-Regional Conference: Development of Mechanisms on Torture Prevention in the Post-Soviet Countries June 2012

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

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Evaluation of PRI’s Death Penalty Project 2010-2012

Between February and May 2012, PRI worked with an independent evaluator, Mr Paul English, to conduct an outcome- and impact-based evaluation of the entire project (1 February 2010-31 March 2012) by assessing and analysing the project’s achievements and results, in light of overall programme objectives and performance indicators. The outcome of the evaluation will guide […]

Languages: English

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Mechanisms for the prevention of torture in nine CIS states: synthesis 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

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Alternatives to imprisonment in East Africa: trends and challenges

Prison overcrowding is a serious problem in East Africa. The occupancy rate of prisons in Tanzania is over 145 percent and in Kenya and Uganda it is over 200 percent. The congestion is caused in large part by the excessive use of pre-trial detention: approximately half of those detained at any one time are awaiting […]

Languages: English

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The status of the death penalty in East Africa (Kenya and Uganda).

PRI In collaboration with Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (Uganda), constructed this report on the status of the death penalty in East Africa (Kenya and Uganda). In view of the UN Secretary General’s forthcoming report on the question of the death penalty to the 21st session of the UN Human Rights Council (September 2012), civil […]

Languages: English

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Report on the status of the death Penalty in Belarus

PRI in collaboration with the Belarusian Human Rights House, Human Rights House Foundation (Geneva), and Human Rights Centre “Viasna” (Belarus), constructed a report on the status of the death penalty in Belarus. In view of the UN Secretary General’s forthcoming report on the question of the death penalty to the 21st session of the UN […]

Languages: English