International Standard
These include: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) Safeguards Guaranteeing Protection of the Rights of Those Facing the Death Penalty, UN ECOSOC resolution 1984/50 UN […]
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International Standard
Key international standards and norms relating to the use of non-custodial alternatives to imprisonment include: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Article 9 and Article 14) Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment (1988) UN Principles and Guidelines on Access to Legal Aid in Criminal […]
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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 […]
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