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Submission

Input for the UN General Assembly Working Group on “Access to Justice” for Older Persons

Access to justice and discrimination issues affect older people throughout the criminal justice system at arrest and adjudication, detention, and transition back to the community. This submission provides input for the United Nations General Assembly Open-ended Working Group for the purpose of strengthening the protection of the human rights of older persons, specifically focusing on […]

Languages: English

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The issue

From petty bribery to large-scale misappropriation of funds, corruption is rife throughout the criminal justice process in many countries and has serious implications both for the human rights of detainees and the efficient administration of justice. Corruption occurs in police stations, prosecutors’ offices, the judiciary and in prisons. Corruption might be a reason why a […]

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The issue

Prison staff are key actors in the successful rehabilitation of people in prison, but staff are often poorly paid, under-trained and experience high levels of work-related stress and violence. It is vital that prison staff are treated with respect, and the challenges of their role are acknowledged and addressed. They must also have the necessary […]

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The issue

Foreign nationals tend to be over represented in prison systems in many countries; and sometimes there are separate prisons or parts of prisons for foreign nationals. The rate of detained foreign nationals is staggeringly high in some countries, like in United Arab Emirates where the proportion is over 90 per cent. In Europe, foreign nationals […]

Report

PRI Project supporting multi- agency monitoring of places of detention of children in Tanzania

Between December 2010 and April 2012 PRI conducted an 18 month project in Tanzania to support multi- agency monitoring of places of detention of Children.  With the financial support of UNICEF Tanzania PRI worked with local agencies to develop monitoring tools and an IT based system to collect, collate and analyse the results of monitoring visits conducted by mandated […]

Languages: English

Training

Index of Paralegal Services in Africa

Over the past 15 years, paralegals have become an increasingly important part of the criminal justice system in developing countries. As well as providing legal information and basic legal advice to people in conflict with the law, some paralegal services also provide food and medical supplies to people in detention and a presence at police […]

Languages: English

Briefing

Detention Monitoring Tool: Incident management and independent investigations

Deaths or serious injuries of persons in custody, disappearances of individuals, and allegations or indications of torture and other forms of ill-treatment can be summarised as ‘serious incidents’ in custody, which can have a variety of different causes. This Factsheet is intended to give guidance to monitoring bodies in assessing whether the prison authorities have […]

Languages: Armenian, Arabic, English, Georgian, Russian

Submission

Statement to the Human Rights Council on drugs and human rights

Penal Reform International and the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS) made a joint statement on drugs and human rights at the 36th Session of the Human Rights Council on 25 September 2017. The statement highlighted how a range of well-documented human rights violations – such as increased police violence and mass incarceration of people involved […]

Languages: English

International Standard

Resolution on Mandela Rules from The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, April 2016

A resolution was adopted at the 58th Ordinary Session of The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights on the revised Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (Nelson Mandela Rules) The Resolution: encourages all stakeholders to draw inspiration from the Mandela Rules in order to fill the existing gaps in the applicable laws, policies […]

Languages: English

Report

Evaluation: Excellence in Training on Rehabilitation in Africa (ExTRA) Project (mid-term)

This mid-term evaluation reports on progress achieved in PRI’s two-year UKAid-sponsored ExTRA Project – Excellence in Training on Rehabilitation in Africa. The ExTRA project is a pilot initiative, which focuses on developing community service as an alternative to short-term prison sentences for petty offences in three countries – Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. The evaluation was […]

Languages: English