Annual Report
PRI Annual Report 2012
This year’s Annual Report looks at highlights from each month in 2012, and gives an overview of the breadth and depth of PRI’s work.
Languages: English
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
Submission
Submission to 54th session CEDAW: Half Day General Discussion on Access to Justice, February 2013
Written submission to the 54th session of CEDAW on 18 February 2013, drawing the Committee’s attention to the problems faced by women defendants and women prisoners in accessing justice, which are often overlooked.
Languages: English
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
International Standard
Key international standards and norms for the treatment of women in the criminal justice system
These include: UN Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-Custodial Sanctions for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules) (2010) English French Spanish Russian Arabic Chinese Portuguese (unofficial translation) Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
Languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
Training
Index of Paralegal Services in Africa
Over the past 15 years, paralegals have become an increasingly important part of the criminal justice system in developing countries. As well as providing legal information and basic legal advice to people in conflict with the law, some paralegal services also provide food and medical supplies to people in detention and a presence at police […]
Languages: English
Submission
Submission to the 21st session of the Crime Commission, April 2012, on the UN Bangkok Rules
The statement to the 21st session of the Crime Commission draws delegates’ attention to the fact that, whilst some states have begun to put the Rules into practice, there remains a great deal to be done to further their implementation. Read the statement from PRI below in one of the six UN languages.
Languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish
Submission
PRI statement to the 3rd Committee of the 126th Assembly of the IPU, 2012: Women’s access to health
A short statement given by PRI at the Third Committee of the 126th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), on the issues of the specific health needs of women and girl prisoners.
Languages: English
Submission
Statement to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Kampala, April 2012
PRI’s statement to the 126th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Kampala, Uganda in April 2012 focused on the overuse of imprisonment. PRI also gave a short statement to the 3rd Committee on the issue of access to health as a basic right for women and girls in prison.
Languages: English
Briefing
Access to justice: discrimination against women in criminal justice systems
More than 625,000 women and girls are held in prisons around the world. The majority are imprisoned for petty, non-violent offences, and frequently as a result, directly or indirectly, of discrimination and deprivation, often experienced at the hands of their husbands or partners, their family and the community. This briefing paper outlines the ways in […]
Languages: English