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. […]
Languages: English
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 […]
Languages: English
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 […]
Languages: English
Submission
This joint submission by FIACAT, FIDH and PRI as members of the World Coalition against the Death Penalty was submitted to the 56th Ordinary Session of the African Commission in Banjul in April 2015. It calls on the Commission to adopt an Additional Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the abolition of […]
Languages: French
Report
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have both carried out revision of their penal codes (Criminal Codes, Criminal Executive Codes and Criminal Procedural Codes) over the last few years (from 2013 to the present in Kyrgyzstan and since 2009 in Tajikistan). PRI has been heavily involved from early on in the process in both countries, working with the authorities […]
Languages: English
Submission
This joint submission calls on Member States present at the 24th Session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (Crime Commission) to finalise the process of the SMR Review and adopt the revised Standard Minimum Rules according to the recommendations of the inter-governmental Expert Group, and transmit them for final adoption by […]
Languages: English
Submission
The enforcement of overly punitive laws for drug offences has not only proven ineffective in curbing the production, trafficking, and consumption of illicit substances, but had many negative consequences, including overloading criminal justice systems, overwhelming the courts, fuelling prison overcrowding and exacerbating health problems. Focusing already limited resources on low-level offenders and drug users has […]
Languages: English
Multimedia
In this last of our expert guest blogs for our anniversary year, Luciana Pol, Senior Fellow on Security and Human Rights at Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) in Argentina welcomes initiatives in several Latin American countries to start to recalibrate the criminal justice response to drugs and welcomes the inclusion of human rights […]
Languages: English
Annual Report
Report of the PRI Board and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2014.
Languages: English
Briefing
How are prison officers affected by overseeing prisoners on death row or even participating in executions? What effects does it have in the short and the longer term? This short paper draws on research and interviews with prison guards to outline the psychological impact that guards who have worked with prisoners for many years on death row […]
Languages: English