Author: Jill
Published:
01
Dec
2011
On 30 November 2011, CSPRI’s Project Coordinator Lukas Muntingh presented a submission on the prevention and eradication of torture in South African prisons to the Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services (PCCS).
Torture
ACJR News
Parliament
News
Author: Jean
Published:
29
Nov
2011
The "Clean hands in prison" campaign is focused on raising awareness on the importance of washing hands, reducing the prevalence and transmission rates of diseases brought about by a lack of hygiene and sanitation in jails.
ACJR News
News
Burkina Faso
Author: Jean
Published:
28
Nov
2011
Up to 32 million Congolese are due to head to the polls on Monday 28 November after a weekend marked by deadly street clashes and allegations of cheating
ACJR News
News
Democratic Republic of Congo
Author: Jean
Published:
25
Nov
2011
Human Rights Watch calls on Moroccan authorities to stop harassing those campaigning for a boycott of elections.
Morocco
News
Author: Jean
Published:
16
Nov
2011
Top judge condemns the practice of filing holding charges against accused persons and “trial by public parade of suspects on pages of newspapers and on the television” and blames the practice for congestion in prisons.
News
Nigeria
Author: calitz
Published:
14
Nov
2011
On 14 November, CSPRI researcher, Gwénaëlle Dereymaeker, presented the CSPRI submission on the Implementation of the Geneva Conventions Bill B10-2011 before Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans.
ACJR News
News
Author: Jean
Published:
11
Nov
2011
Human Rights Watch called on the Guinean government to investigate the role of two high-level officials in the apparent illegal detention and intimidation of members of a prominent Guinean human rights group.
Guinea
Paralegals
News
Author: Jean
Published:
09
Nov
2011
Amnesty International released a report on 1 November 2011 which accuses the Ugandan state of targeting critical journalists, civil society activists and opposition political leaders with "arbitrary arrest, intimidation, threats and politically motivated criminal charges".
News
Uganda
Submission by CSPRI on torture in prisons to the Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services
