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Institutional culture in detention: a framework for preventive monitoring

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

Statement to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, April 2013: the death penalty in Africa

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

Report

Probation and parole system in Pakistan: Assessment and recommendations for reform

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

Report

Women in detention: a guide to gender-sensitive monitoring

This resource from PRI and the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) is designed to help bodies monitoring places of detention incorporate a gender perspective into their work and to address the problem of violence against women and girls in detention. This guide introduces the UN Bangkok Rules and other relevant sources of international law […]

Languages: Uzbek, Arabic, English, French, Georgian, Russian, Spanish, Tajik

Submission

Statement to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, March 2013: Sustainable Development and Access to Justice

Call to parliamentarians, while they work towards the post-2015 agenda, to take into account all drivers of poverty, including unfair criminal justice systems and disproportionate imprisonment, which indirectly criminalise the poor and marginalised, and work towards promoting and protecting the rule of law and access to justice as a founding norm for achieving sustainable development.

Languages: English

Submission

Statement to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, March 2013: The unintended negative consequences of the ‘war on drugs’

PRI delivered a statement in a panel session – ‘The Legalisation of drugs: can it help curb organised crime?’ at the 128th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Quito, Ecuador in March 2013. The statement flags the often disproportionate criminalisation, with little differentiation between use and possession on one end of the scale and large-scale commercial […]

Languages: English