Briefing
In December 2012 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Principles and Guidelines on Access to Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems by unanimous consent in Resolution A/RES/67/187. This briefing provides the background and reasons for why this soft law document is needed for ensuring access to justice. It also summaries the content of the Principles […]
Languages: English
Model for Reform
This 10-Point Plan focuses on ways that law and policy makers and criminal justice practitioners can respond effectively and positively to children in contact and in conflict with the law. The Plan is based on relevant international instruments including the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child, the UN Standard Minimum Rules […]
Languages: Arabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
Briefing
Criminalisation of drug users, excessive levels of imprisonment, and punitive sentencing practices, including mandatory sentencing, the death penalty and enforced ‘drug detention centres’, are some of the unintended negative consequences of the 50 year ‘war on drugs’, a policy with direct impact on the vulnerable, poor and socially excluded groups, including ethnic minorities and women. This PRI briefing paper discusses these consequences […]
Languages: English
Report
This paper looks at positive culture change in places of deprivation of liberty from a human rights perspective. People deprived of their liberty are particularly vulnerable to abuse, including torture and other forms of ill-treatment. Bodies that monitor places of detention play a significant role in preventing torture, by identifying root causes and seeking to […]
Languages: Uzbek, English, French, Georgian, Russian, Spanish, Tajik
Submission
PRI and its partner organisation, Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI), submitted an alternative report regarding the implementation of the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment in Kenya in April 2013.
Languages: English
Submission
A submission to the EU COHOM Task Force setting out PRI’s stance on death penalty policy and guidelines.
Languages: English
Submission
PRI issued this joint statement to the 53rd session of the African Commission in April 2013 with the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI), the International Federation of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture (FIACAT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH). The statement called on all African Union states, while continuing […]
Languages: English
Submission
This joint statement on Children of imprisoned parents was submitted to the 22nd session of the Crime Commission with the Friends World Committee for Consultation (Quakers), 15 April 2013 (E/CN.15/2013/NGO/4)
Languages: English
Submission
Submission by PRI and the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, Uganda, to the UN Secretary General for his 2013 report on the question of the death penalty.
Languages: English
Report
Alternatives to imprisonment in Pakistan have their legal basis at the pre-trial stage in the form of bail; at the sentencing stage with fines and probation; and at the post-sentencing stage with parole. Probation and parole are, however, underused, despite significant overcrowding in the country’s prisons and widely accepted evidence globally that alternatives to imprisonment […]
Languages: English, Urdu