Annual Report
PRI Annual Report 2012
This year’s Annual Report looks at highlights from each month in 2012, and gives an overview of the breadth and depth of PRI’s work.
Languages: English
Resources listing
Briefing
The unintended negative consequences of the ‘war on drugs’
Criminalisation of drug users, excessive levels of imprisonment, and punitive sentencing practices, including mandatory sentencing, the death penalty and enforced ‘drug detention centres’, are some of the unintended negative consequences of the 50 year ‘war on drugs’, a policy with direct impact on the vulnerable, poor and socially excluded groups, including ethnic minorities and women. This PRI briefing paper discusses these consequences […]
Languages: English
Submission
Alternative report to the UN Committee against Torture regarding the consideration of Kenya’s second report
PRI and its partner organisation, Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI), submitted an alternative report regarding the implementation of the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment in Kenya in April 2013.
Languages: English
Submission
EU COHOM Task Force on the review of the EU Guidelines on Death Penalty
A submission to the EU COHOM Task Force setting out PRI’s stance on death penalty policy and guidelines.
Languages: English
Submission
Statement to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, April 2013: the death penalty in Africa
PRI issued this joint statement to the 53rd session of the African Commission in April 2013 with the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI), the International Federation of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture (FIACAT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH). The statement called on all African Union states, while continuing […]
Languages: English
Submission
Submission to UN Secretary-General’s 2013 report to the Human Rights Council on the death penalty
Submission by PRI and the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, Uganda, to the UN Secretary General for his 2013 report on the question of the death penalty.
Languages: English
Submission
Statement to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, March 2013: The unintended negative consequences of the ‘war on drugs’
PRI delivered a statement in a panel session – ‘The Legalisation of drugs: can it help curb organised crime?’ at the 128th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Quito, Ecuador in March 2013. The statement flags the often disproportionate criminalisation, with little differentiation between use and possession on one end of the scale and large-scale commercial […]
Languages: English
Model for Reform
Making Law and Policy that Work
Making Law and Policy that Work is aimed at specialists and non-specialists faced with the responsibility of creating a policy and legislative framework for criminal justice and penal systems. It recognises that criminal justice reform requires expertise and experience in a variety of disciplines which are rarely embodied in one person. It takes into account the […]
Languages: English, French, Spanish
Public Statement
Statement to the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, October 2012: Exchange of views on the question of abolition of capital punishment
This statement to the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting on 5 October 2012 calls in particular for: Belarus and the United States to take immediate steps to end the use of the death penalty; the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan to abolish the death penalty in law for all crimes; and the Republic […]
Languages: English
Multimedia
The final request
The three-minute animation provides a basic overview of the application of the death penalty in the Middle East and North African region. This 2012 animation “The Final Request” was produced under the EU funded project ‘Progressive Abolition of the Death Penalty and Alternatives that Respect International Human Rights Standards’. The contents of this documentary are […]
Languages: Arabic, English