Public Statement
PRI at 126th Inter-Parliamentary Union- Full Oral Statement
Statement given by PRI at the Third Committee of the 126th Inter-Parliamentary Union.
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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
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Conference Report ‘Combating and Prevention Torture and Ill-treatment in the South Caucasus.’
From 22 – 23 March, PRI hosted a regional forum on torture prevention and rehabilitation was organized in Tbilisi in the framework of the PRI’s project on Strengthening Institutions and Building Civil Society Capacity to Combat Torture in 9 Post-Soviet Countries. The project is funded by the European Union. The regional forum focused on pressing […]
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Abolition of the death penalty in the Arab world: Effective strategies and available mechanisms – a procedural toolkit
A toolkit originating from the second Alexandria regional conference on the death penalty in the Middle East and North Africa. This procedural toolkit is aimed at supporting the work of activists in the field of human rights. It comprises a range of tactics and strategies which can be employed by human rights activists in the […]
Languages: Arabic, English
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Towards the abolition of the death penalty and its alternative sanctions in the Middle East and North Africa
The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. It represents an unacceptable denial of human dignity and integrity. It is irrevocable, and where criminal justice systems are open to error or discrimination, the death penalty will inevitably be inflicted on the innocent. In many countries that retain the death penalty there is […]
Languages: English
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The abolition of the death penalty and its alternative sanction in Eastern Europe: Belarus, Russia and Ukraine
This research paper focuses on the application of the death penalty and its alternative sanction in three countries of Eastern Europe: the Republic of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Its aim is to provide up-to-date information about the laws and practices relating to the application of the death penalty in this region, including an analysis of the alternative sanctions to the […]
Languages: English, Russian
Submission
Submission to the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child: Falling through the cracks, March 2012
Falling through the Cracks, PRI’s submission to the 19th Session of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, briefs the Committee on the difficulties facing children of imprisoned parents in Africa, and urges it to consider drafting a General Comment on Article 30 of the African Charter which would […]
Languages: English, French
Submission
Statement to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Kampala, April 2012
PRI’s statement to the 126th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Kampala, Uganda in April 2012 focused on the overuse of imprisonment. PRI also gave a short statement to the 3rd Committee on the issue of access to health as a basic right for women and girls in prison.
Languages: English
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The abolition of the death penalty and its alternative sanction in East Africa: Kenya and Uganda
The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. It represents an unacceptable denial of human dignity and integrity. It is irrevocable, and where criminal justice systems are open to error or discrimination, the death penalty will inevitably be inflicted on the innocent. In many countries that retain the death penalty there is a […]
Languages: English