Submission
EU COHOM Task Force on the review of the EU Guidelines on Death Penalty
A submission to the EU COHOM Task Force setting out PRI’s stance on death penalty policy and guidelines.
Languages: English
Resources listing
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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
Submission
Joint Statement to the Crime Commission, 15 April 2013: Children of imprisoned parents
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 to UN Secretary-General’s 2013 report to the Human Rights Council on the death penalty
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
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
Submission
Submission to 54th session CEDAW: Half Day General Discussion on Access to Justice, February 2013
Written submission to the 54th session of CEDAW on 18 February 2013, drawing the Committee’s attention to the problems faced by women defendants and women prisoners in accessing justice, which are often overlooked.
Languages: English
Model for Reform
Making Law and Policy that Work
Making Law and Policy that Work is aimed at specialists and non-specialists faced with the responsibility of creating a policy and legislative framework for criminal justice and penal systems. It recognises that criminal justice reform requires expertise and experience in a variety of disciplines which are rarely embodied in one person. It takes into account the […]
Languages: English, French, Spanish