Submission
PRI submitted the paper below as a contribution for the UN CRC Day of General Discussion 2011 on Children of Incarcerated Parents. It urges states to implement the Bangkok Rules and consider children’s best interests at all points of their parent’s involvement with the criminal justice system. Click here to read the CRC Report and Recommendations from […]
Languages: English
Report
The promotion of independent public monitoring systems is key to the work of PRI. This resource is a collection of reports from torture prevention monitoring commissions in Kazakhstan from 2011.
Languages: Russian
Report
This document aims to answer questions you might have about the Bangkok Rules (UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders).
Languages: English, Russian
Briefing
A series of short briefing papers produced for parliamentarians and policy-makers, which focus on the disadvantages faced by women and girls in the criminal justice system worldwide, and highlight examples of international good practice. These briefings were distributed at the Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly in Quebec in October 2012. They are available in English, Arabic, French and Spanish.
Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish
Multimedia
http://vimeo.com/36890180 This 2011 film ‘Forgotten’ was produced under the EU funded project ‘Progressive Abolition of the Death Penalty and Alternatives that Respect International Human Rights Standards’. The film reflects the conditions for those sentenced to life imprisonment in the countries of Central Asia.
Languages: English
Submission
Statement to the OSCE HDIM on the importance of civil society participation in detention monitoring, held in Warsaw, Poland in September 2011.
Languages: English
Report
Following a conference on the progression of the abolition of death penalty in Central Asia, the conference participants made the following recommendations that the state bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Kyrgyzstan and the Republic of Tajikistan implement the following measures at their earliest opportunity.
Languages: English, Russian
Briefing
Prison Reform Trust Briefing On 10 February 2011 the House of Commons debated and voted on a motion to retain the UK’s blanket ban on sentenced prisoners voting. The blanket ban is contrary to the rule of law and undermines the principle that in a democracy voting is both a right and responsibility. Based on […]
Languages: English
Annual Report
Please contact Penal Reform International at publications@penalreform.org if you would like a free paper copy.
Languages: English
Report
The conference on penal reform in developing countries, ‘Locked up and Forgotten?’, took place on the 6th -7th October, 2010 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. 107 delegates from five South Asian Countries met to discuss overcrowding in prisons in the region, prison legislation and legal aid services in the criminal justice systems in South Asia. The participants agreed […]
Languages: English