Training
Advocacy is a tool that can bring about change in a democracy. Advocacy is the act of working toward a goal or defending a cause or issue. It can be used to influence governments to make changes to policy and legislation or to increase public awareness on a particular issue.
Languages: English
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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Training
A practical training resource for effective independent monitors of juvenile detention facilities. Including guidelines, international standards and examples of good practice.
Languages: English, Russian
Public Statement
A brief statement of support from PRI for the transfer of Kazakhstan’s prison health services to the Ministry of Health. In order to support the process of transferal, PRI co-organised a conference on the issue.
Languages: English
Submission
Ahead of its 103rd session, Penal Reform International submitted information to the Human Rights Committee on Armenia. The briefing outlines PRI’s concerns with regard to the excessive use of pre-trial detention in Armenia, while alternative non-custodial preventive measures are hardly ever applied. Even after the release of 508 prisoners under an amnesty in May 2011, […]
Languages: English
Report
This evaluation report relates to PRI’s 2.5-year project for penal reform in the Ukraine, using a grant from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and working alongside local partner organisations: the Bila Tzerkva Training School (BZTS); the Centre for Judicial Studies (CJS); and the Women’s Information Consultative Centre (WICC). The overall goal of […]
Languages: English
Training
This resource is designed to support the training of stakeholders in the criminal justice and penal systems, including judges, prosecutors, defence lawyers, prison officials and probation staff. It aims to build and strengthen the knowledge and awareness of the international human rights safeguards of individuals facing a death penalty or long and life term sentences, […]
Languages: Arabic, English, French, Russian
Report
A report of a three day Human Rights training session held from the 12th-14th April 2011 at Peshawar Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Languages: English
Training
Summary of training for South Caucasus prison officials by PRI between January and April 2011.
Languages: English
Report
The promotion of independent public monitoring systems is key to the work of PRI. This resource is a collection of reports from torture prevention monitoring commissions in Kazakhstan from 2011.
Languages: Russian