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Published by HAQ: Centre for Child Rights. HAQ: Centre for Child Rights works towards the recognition, promotion and protection of rights of all children. This report sets out the current position of juvenile justice in India and makes recommendations for innovative reform.
Languages: English
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This report is a follow-up to Research Report No.10 published in July 2007 on property offence cases committed during the genocide. In that report, PRI noted the marked discrepancy between the theory of reparation and current socio-economic conditions in Rwanda.
Languages: English
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A survey commissioned by Penal Reform International’s Regional Office in the South Caucuses. The survey was carried out by the Estonian Institute for Open Society Research in a project funded by the European Union.
Languages: English, Georgian
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This study highlights some significant systemic shortcomings on the way to reform of penal legislation in Georgia. Discussing the themes of law making in general, criminal law and procedure, execution of imprisonment and probation, the study evaluates the hurdles to reform and concludes with recommendations. This publication was produced by PRI with the aid of […]
Languages: English, Georgian
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This study evaluates the position of life prisoners in South Caucasus with the results to be used to advocate international standards and norms. It forms part of the project ‘Global Action to Abolish the Death Penalty’. Published by PRI with the aid of the European Union
Languages: English, Georgian
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The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Vernor Muñoz Villalobos, devoted his first annual report to the question of the right to education of persons in detention, ‘a group subject to discrimination generally and to discrimination in the provision of education specifically’. Penal Reform International was among a number of organisations contributing to the report.
Languages: Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish
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PRI and the Swedish Institute co-hosted a conference which took place in Alexandria, Egypt, in May 2008. Eminent guest speakers and participants were invited from across the Arab region. The central objective of the conference was to consolidate the prospects of a moratorium on the death penalty in those countries in the Middle East and […]
Languages: Arabic, English
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This latest report from the Gacaca monitoring project deals with the issues surrounding testimony, evidence-giving and proof in the Gacaca courts. In effect, the whole Gacaca justice system relies on witness statements and oral accounts of events – accounts which can be distorted by the passing of time, corrupted by the desire for retribution or curtailed […]
Languages: English, French
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This report highlights the often forgotten vulnerability of the children of parents in prison. As part of the Women in Prison and Children of Imprisoned Mothers Series produced by the Quaker United Nations Office, the study aims to raise awareness of the particular issues faced by these groups and explore how they can be appropriately […]
Languages: English, Russian
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This report focuses on the cases involving property offences committed during the genocide. Such cases are complex due to the varying degrees of responsibility: did the perpetrators engage in the looting of an abandoned home as a means of survival or were they involved in the organised and systematic destruction of property to eliminate all […]
Languages: English, French