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Prisons and jails should be prioritized for the coronavirus vaccine

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Coronavirus Access to legal rights Health
Fair access to COVID-19 vaccines—including who should be first in line—has been debated in many countries around the world. The combination of massive need and short supply requires authorities to define priorities. In doing so, they should ensure “the equitable protection and promotion of human well-being…

Source — Open Society Justice Initiative

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Argentina: en cumplimiento de un fallo de la CorteIDH, el SPF aprueba un nuevo protocolo de traslados de personas privadas de libertad

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South America Access to legal rights Justice Facilities Social ties Argentina

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Rusia: las cárceles de Moscú, colmadas de seguidores de Navalny

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Pre-trial detention Asia Access to legal rights Material conditions Protest Russia

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New Zealand: treatment at Auckland women's prison 'degrading' and 'inhumane' - judge

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Women Access to legal rights Oceania Justice Material conditions Violence New Zealand
Corrections broke its own rules and regulations multiple times in its treatment of Mihi Bassett and Karma Cripps, who were gassed in their cells and forced to perform a humiliating ritual to be fed, Manukau District Court Judge David McNaughton says. His ruling also confirms the women had to remove…

Source — Rnz

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India: after 70 years, Rajasthan amends prison manual that sanctioned caste-based labour

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Culture Asia Access to legal rights Justice Activities Religion India
For over 70- years, the Rajasthan state had followed an unconstitutional and violative prison manual that allowed assignment of labour on the basis of a prisoner’s caste. This institutionalised caste practice had continued unchallenged until The Wire’s report exposed the conditions in prisons of Rajasthan…

Source — The Wire Impact

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Russia: human rights activists have spent 30 years fighting for better privacy and cleaner facilities, but ‘holes in the floor’ persist

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Asia Access to legal rights Material conditions Protest Russia
In recent weeks, the Russian authorities arrested thousands of demonstrators at protests across the country, sentencing hundreds to several days or weeks in jail. For many of these people, behind bars for the first time in their lives, state custody was a uniquely upsetting experience — particularly…

Source — Meduza

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Algérie : des ONG se mobilisent contre la torture et les conditions de détention

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Africa Pre-trial detention Access to legal rights Justice Protest Torture Violence Algeria

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España: ”es injusto y desproporcionado que Pablo Hasél entre en la cárcel”

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Europe Access to legal rights Justice Spain

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Pakistán: una sentencia del Tribunal Supremo prohíbe las ejecuciones de personas con discapacidad mental

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Asia Access to legal rights Justice Mental health Death penalty Pakistan

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Rusia: liberen a Aleksei Navalny, envenenado, detenido y condenado injustamente

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Asia Access to legal rights Justice Material conditions Torture Violence Russia

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Arabia Saudí: la liberación de la defensora de los derechos de las mujeres Loujain al Hathloul llega con mucho retraso

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Women Middle East Access to legal rights Torture Violence Saudi Arabia

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Chile: interno de cárcel de La Serena se suicida tras acosos de gendarmes por su orientación sexual

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South America LGBTI Access to legal rights Torture Violence Chile

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Chile: siguen los abusos en gendarmería, ahora torturan a interna trans en cárcel de Arica

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South America LGBTI Access to legal rights Torture Violence Chile

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Germany: unsuccessful constitutional complaint challenging electronic monitoring of persons released from prison (‘electronic tagging’)

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Europe Access to legal rights Discipline Justice Germany
While such electronic monitoring constitutes a very intrusive interference with fundamental rights, in particular with the fundamental right to informational self-determination and the general right of personality following from Art. 2(1) in conjunction with Art. 1(1) of the Basic Law (Grundgesetz –…

Source — Bundesverfassungsgericht

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Afghanistan : selon l’ONU, les tortures continuent dans les prisons

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Middle East Access to legal rights Torture Violence Afghanistan

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Guinée : "décédé de mort naturelle" un constat qui se multiplie à la prison de Conakry en Guinée

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Africa Access to legal rights Health Material conditions Guinea

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Venezuela: Amnistía Internacional nombra presos de conciencia a cinco miembros de la ONG humanitaria Azul Positivo

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South America Access to legal rights Protest Venezuela

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Hong Kong: la detención masiva de figuras de la oposición pone de relieve la capacidad represiva de la ley de seguridad nacional

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Pre-trial detention Asia Access to legal rights Protest Hong Kong SAR China

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Rusia: detenciones de personas que protestaban pacíficamente

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Pre-trial detention Asia Access to legal rights Protest Overcrowding Violence Russia

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Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi y otras personas, detenidas en el golpe militar en curso

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Pre-trial detention Asia Access to legal rights Violence Myanmar (Burma)

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Rusia: Navalny condenado a prisión mientras la detención masiva de sus simpatizantes deriva en hacinamiento grave y condiciones de reclusión crueles

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Pre-trial detention Asia Access to legal rights Justice Material conditions Protest Russia

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Chile: cárcel y mujeres, la urgencia de pensar un sistema penitenciario con enfoque de género

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South America Women LGBTI Access to legal rights Social ties Chile

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