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Report

Report on the status of the death Penalty in Belarus

PRI in collaboration with the Belarusian Human Rights House, Human Rights House Foundation (Geneva), and Human Rights Centre “Viasna” (Belarus), constructed a report on the status of the death penalty in Belarus. In view of the UN Secretary General’s forthcoming report on the question of the death penalty to the 21st session of the UN […]

Languages: English

Submission

Submission to the 21st session of the Crime Commission, April 2012, on the UN Bangkok Rules

The statement to the 21st session of the Crime Commission draws delegates’ attention to the fact that, whilst some states have begun to put the Rules into practice, there remains a great deal to be done to further their implementation. Read the statement from PRI below in one of the six UN languages.

Languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish

Submission

Joint statement to the Crime Commission on targeted revision of the UN Standard Minimum Rules, April 2013

This joint statement on the revision of the UN Standard Minimum Rules was submitted to the Crime Commission on 15 April 2013 (E/CN.15/2013/NGO/3) by PRI and: American Civil Liberties Union Amnesty International Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales Conectas Direitos Humanos Centro Regional de Derechos Humanos y Justicia de Género International Commission of Catholic Prison Pastoral Care […]

Languages: English

Briefing

Life after death: what replaces the death penalty?

More and more states have moved towards the abolition of the death penalty over the last fifty years. However, in many countries there has at the same time been a striking increase in the use of the sanction of life imprisonment, and an increasing number of prisoners serving indefinite sentences, often without the chance of […]

Languages: English, French, Russian

Report

Capacity-building workshop report from Kiev

From 26-29 March 2012, 37 participants from 12 countries gathered in Kiev for a workshop, kindly sponsored by the Open Society Institute and designed to build the capacity of civil society organisations to monitor human rights standards in places of detention, and to advocate and campaign for improvements based on their findings. Penal Reform International […]

Languages: English

Submission

Joint oral statement to the Human Rights Council: Children deprived of their liberty, March 2012

PRI, in conjunction with OSJI and IJJO, submitted an oral statement to the Council highlighting the impact of extensive periods of pre-trial detention on the social and mental development of juveniles and increasing prevalence of mental health problems amongst juveniles in contact with the criminal justice system. During the afternoon session of the meeting Dr. […]

Languages: English