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Prisoners are put in solitary confinement – for days, and sometimes for months and years, in most countries. In the USA, the American Civil Liberties Union has estimated that some 80,000 prisoners are housed in some form of isolation. However, the dangers of solitary confinement are increasingly recognised. Not only to the mental health of the individual, […]
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Report
This report is designed for non-experts who want to understand more about Sharia law and Islamic jurisprudence as it relates to the death penalty. Sharia law is used in some countries as a reason to retain capital punishment. However, there are schools of thought among Islamic scholars stating that Sharia law creates stringent conditions for […]
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Report
This joint research report with the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI) is based on a survey of 194 women in prison in Uganda (10 per cent of the total female prison population) carried out by FHRI between August 2014 and February 2015. By providing facts and figures, the report seeks to illustrate the need for gender-specific policies […]
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Report
From 2011-2013, PRI’s Middle East and North Africa office ran a regional programme in six countries to promote the humane and fair treatment of vulnerable people in conflict with the law. The programme was funded by the Swedish International Cooperation Development Agency (SIDA). Evaluated in Summer 2014, this impact evaluation assesses the following three intended […]
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Submission
PRI and the Friends World Committee for Consultation (Quakers) made a joint statement at the 29th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council. The statement notes the extremely high proportion of women deprived of their liberty who have suffered domestic violence, and says that this plays a significant role in the lives of women […]
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Annual Report
PRI’s Annual Report 2014 highlights achievements at both international and country level in our 25th anniversary year which ran from April 2014 to April 2015. The process of revising the text of the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners was completed in April 2014 at the fourth intergovernmental expert group meeting […]
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Multimedia
On 22 May 2015, at the UN Crime Commission in Vienna, states agreed on a new set of prison standards – a new and updated version of the well-known and well-used Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (SMR). Andrea Huber, PRI’s Policy Director, was involved in the revision process and was present in […]
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Submission
This submission looks at various ways in which the right to life is violated by the death penalty and how existed safeguards against arbitrary death sentences and executions should be interpreted or strengthened in the light of other human rights developments in recent decades. It draws on insights from PRI’s publication Strengthening death penalty standards. […]
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Submission
The 2015 supplementary report on the death penalty focuses on the wider human rights impacts of the death penalty. This submission looks at some of the groups affected, including lawyers defending those facing a death sentence, journalists reporting on the death penalty and prison staff who have to administer death rows or conduct executions. The […]
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Submission
This joint statement by PRI, Friends World Committee for Consultation (Quakers), the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, the Academic Council of the United Nations System (ACUNS) and others, was delivered to the 24th session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Vienna in May 2015. It responds to the quinquennial […]
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