Report
‘Pre-Trial Detention and Penal Reform in Latin America – Evaluation and Perspectives’ assesses the use of pre-trial detention in Latin America where there has been extensive reform of the criminal justice system over the last 20 years. It has been produced by CEJA (Centro de Estudios de Justicia de las Americas) and La Defensoria Penal […]
Languages: Spanish
Report
Published by HAQ: Centre for Child Rights. HAQ: Centre for Child Rights works towards the recognition, promotion and protection of rights of all children. This report sets out the current position of juvenile justice in India and makes recommendations for innovative reform.
Languages: English
Report
This report is a follow-up to Research Report No.10 published in July 2007 on property offence cases committed during the genocide. In that report, PRI noted the marked discrepancy between the theory of reparation and current socio-economic conditions in Rwanda.
Languages: English
Report
A survey commissioned by Penal Reform International’s Regional Office in the South Caucuses. The survey was carried out by the Estonian Institute for Open Society Research in a project funded by the European Union.
Languages: English, Georgian
Report
This study highlights some significant systemic shortcomings on the way to reform of penal legislation in Georgia. Discussing the themes of law making in general, criminal law and procedure, execution of imprisonment and probation, the study evaluates the hurdles to reform and concludes with recommendations. This publication was produced by PRI with the aid of […]
Languages: English, Georgian
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This study evaluates the position of life prisoners in South Caucasus with the results to be used to advocate international standards and norms. It forms part of the project ‘Global Action to Abolish the Death Penalty’. Published by PRI with the aid of the European Union
Languages: English, Georgian
Report
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Vernor Muñoz Villalobos, devoted his first annual report to the question of the right to education of persons in detention, ‘a group subject to discrimination generally and to discrimination in the provision of education specifically’. Penal Reform International was among a number of organisations contributing to the report.
Languages: Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish
Model for Reform
PRI and partners presented their final report on research carried out into the treatment and conditions of prisoners serving life sentences in the South Caucasus, in a meeting in Baku on 12th February 2009. The work was carried out within a broader EU-funded project ‘Global Action to Abolish the Death Penalty’, aimed at encouraging the […]
Languages: English
Briefing
This declaration was issued at the end of a conference held in Algiers from 12-13 January 2009 within the framework of PRI’s anti-death penalty campaign.
Languages: Arabic, English, French