Resources listing

Report

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

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Capacity-building workshop report from Kiev

From 26-29 March 2012, 37 participants from 12 countries gathered in Kiev for a workshop, kindly sponsored by the Open Society Institute and designed to build the capacity of civil society organisations to monitor human rights standards in places of detention, and to advocate and campaign for improvements based on their findings. Penal Reform International […]

Languages: English