Resources listing

Submission

Independent experts’ meeting on the review of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the ‘Essex Paper’)

The ‘Essex Paper’ is the outcome of an independent experts’ meeting on the revision of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (SMR).  It was submitted by PRI and Essex University to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime ahead of the 2nd Intergovernmental Expert Group Meeting (IEGM) on the in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 11-13 […]

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish

Submission

Joint statement to the Crime Commission on targeted revision of the UN Standard Minimum Rules, April 2013

This joint statement on the revision of the UN Standard Minimum Rules was submitted to the Crime Commission on 15 April 2013 (E/CN.15/2013/NGO/3) by PRI and: American Civil Liberties Union Amnesty International Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales Conectas Direitos Humanos Centro Regional de Derechos Humanos y Justicia de Género International Commission of Catholic Prison Pastoral Care […]

Languages: English

On-line conference with public monitoring commissions

This document proposes a number of measures to improve the penal system in Kazakhstan, and summarises recommendations adopted at a conference with the chairs of public monitoring commissions on 12 January 2012.

Languages: English

Training

Toolkit: Interviewing Children, their Guardians, and Staff of Juvenile Detention Facilities

PRI’s activities around juvenile justice focus on diverting children from the adult justice system, promoting alternative sanctions to imprisonment and, where imprisonment is used, improving conditions of detention. In order to do this, interviewing children who are deprived of their liberty is vital in getting a full understanding of the situation in a country. This […]

Languages: English, Russian