Multimedia
“Capital Punishment” (2011) is a documentary film produced by Penal Reform International, with the financial assistance of the European Union under the European Instrument of Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR), on the application of the death penalty in Belarus. The film is in Russian with English subtitles. The film focuses on the role of the […]
Languages: English
Report
Between December 2010 and April 2012 PRI conducted an 18 month project in Tanzania to support multi- agency monitoring of places of detention of Children. With the financial support of UNICEF Tanzania PRI worked with local agencies to develop monitoring tools and an IT based system to collect, collate and analyse the results of monitoring visits conducted by mandated […]
Languages: English
Briefing
This report demonstrates the recommendations from participants at a workshop on the issue of life imprisonment in Georgia in June 2011.
Languages: English
Report
On the 9th June 2011 the General Assembly of the United Nations, Human Rights Council drafted this optional protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, thereby establishing a communications procedure.
Languages: English
Briefing
PRI is currently undertaking a two-year project, (2011-13) supported by the European Union in women’s prisons in two regions of Kazakhstan. The objectives of the project are to enhance the system of prevention of HIV/AIDS and TB among women in prisons, to improve the detection, cure and care of women in prisons and to develop […]
Languages: English
Training
This resource is designed to support the training of stakeholders in the criminal justice and penal systems, including judges, prosecutors, defence lawyers, prison officials and probation staff. It aims to build and strengthen the knowledge and awareness of the international human rights safeguards of individuals facing a death penalty or long and life term sentences, […]
Languages: Arabic, English, French, Russian
Submission
A joint statement urging the African Commission to adopt a resolution calling for the abolition of the death penalty in Africa on the ground that it constitutes a violation of the African Charter, specifically as a violation of the right to life (article 4) and the right not to be subject to torture, cruel, inhuman […]
Languages: English
Report
This report documents a workshop held in Kigali, Rwanda from the 9th-11th May 2011. The workshop was the second in the series and was framed around the issue of alternative sentencing and strategies to reduce prison overcrowding.
Languages: English
Report
A report of a three day Human Rights training session held from the 12th-14th April 2011 at Peshawar Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Languages: English
Training
A summary of a PRI seminar for journalists in Georgia.
Languages: English