Submission
This statement on the death penalty was submitted ahead of the Human Rights Council ahead of its 24th Regular Session (September 2013). It welcomes the report of the UN Secretary-General on the Question of the Death Penalty (A/HRC/21/29) covering the period June 2012 to May 2013 and details areas of concerns. These include in particular […]
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Annual Report
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.
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Briefing
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 […]
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Submission
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.
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Submission
A submission to the EU COHOM Task Force setting out PRI’s stance on death penalty policy and guidelines.
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Submission
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 […]
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Submission
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.
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Submission
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 […]
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Model for Reform
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
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 […]
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