Submission
A short briefing for the Secretary General’s forthcoming report covering the status of the death penalty following countries: Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia.
Languages: English
Submission
In view of the UN Secretary General’s forthcoming report on the implementation of a moratorium on the use of the death penalty for the 67th session of the UN General Assembly (September 2012), civil society organisations were invited to share information covering relevant developments since 21 December 2010 on the implementation of a moratorium on […]
Languages: English
Submission
In view of the UN Secretary General’s forthcoming report on the implementation of a moratorium on the use of the death penalty for the 67th session of the UN General Assembly (September 2012), civil society organisations were invited to share information covering relevant developments since 21 December 2010 on the implementation of a moratorium on […]
Languages: English
Briefing
A summary of the media coverage of PRI in Central Asia. In Russian.
Languages: Russian
Report
A report on the Finnish experience of reducing experience of reducing the prison population. In Russian.
Languages: Russian
Report
Between February and May 2012, PRI worked with an independent evaluator, Mr Paul English, to conduct an outcome- and impact-based evaluation of the entire project (1 February 2010-31 March 2012) by assessing and analysing the project’s achievements and results, in light of overall programme objectives and performance indicators. The outcome of the evaluation will guide […]
Languages: English
Training
Over the past 15 years, paralegals have become an increasingly important part of the criminal justice system in developing countries. As well as providing legal information and basic legal advice to people in conflict with the law, some paralegal services also provide food and medical supplies to people in detention and a presence at police […]
Languages: English
Report
This research report assesses the legislative framework, conditions of detention and the development of monitoring mechanisms, with a particular focus on the establishment of civil society monitoring mechanisms and the National Preventive Mechanisms under OPCAT, in nine states of the former Soviet Union: Armenia, Azerbaijian, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Ukraine. The research […]
Languages: English, Russian
Report
Prison overcrowding is a serious problem in East Africa. The occupancy rate of prisons in Tanzania is over 145 percent and in Kenya and Uganda it is over 200 percent. The congestion is caused in large part by the excessive use of pre-trial detention: approximately half of those detained at any one time are awaiting […]
Languages: English