Report
September 2009 marked the end of an era for Rwanda and also for PRI. After years of recording and supporting a greater understanding of the Gacaca jurisdictions, PRI’s monitoring and research programme came to a close as the Government of Rwanda wound up this system of community-based courts for prosecuting genocide suspects. The work was […]
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Report
Eight Years On…A Record of Gacaca Monitoring in Rwanda summarises the findings of all of PRI’s Gacaca reports to date. It is published in English and French. The book is not an analysis by PRI of the process or a commentary on it. It is however a faithful record of the points expressed by Rwandans […]
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Report
Klaas de Jonge, PRI’s first regional director in the Great Lakes region, has written his own analysis and commentary of PRI’s Gacaca process. The views expressed in his commentary are personal rather than those of PRI. PRI is keen to hear your views about its publication Eight Years On…A Record of Gacaca Monitoring in Rwanda, […]
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Report
A report from the UN Secretary General discussing the position of capital punishment worldwide, with recommendations.
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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.
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Briefing
Over half a million women and girls are held in penal institutions around the world, the largest populations being in the United States, the Russian Federation and Thailand. Everywhere, women are a minority in national prison populations but their numbers are increasing in many countries. The increase in women’s imprisonment is fuelling the global trend […]
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Report
This latest report from the Gacaca monitoring project deals with the issues surrounding testimony, evidence-giving and proof in the Gacaca courts. In effect, the whole Gacaca justice system relies on witness statements and oral accounts of events – accounts which can be distorted by the passing of time, corrupted by the desire for retribution or curtailed […]
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Model for Reform
This book is a compilation of Declarations, Plans of Action and ECOSOC Resolutions which make logical, practical, humane and cost-effective recommendations for penal reform, written specifically in and for the African context. Where implemented, these can reduce the unnecessary use of imprisonment and improve access to justice, while responding to the special needs of those […]
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Report
This report focuses on the cases involving property offences committed during the genocide. Such cases are complex due to the varying degrees of responsibility: did the perpetrators engage in the looting of an abandoned home as a means of survival or were they involved in the organised and systematic destruction of property to eliminate all […]
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Briefing
The prevalence of disease, malnutrition, mental illness and general ill health among the global prison population provides overwhelming and incontrovertible evidence that prisons are bad for your health. For many, imprisonment is marked by the deterioration in health and well-being– in some cases it is tantamount to a death sentence. The causes of poor prisoner […]
Languages: Arabic, English, French, Russian