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Chine : les autorités confirment la détention de Gulshan Abbas, femme médecin ouïghoure, pour "terrorisme"

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United States: new documentary released on forced sterilizations of female prisoners

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The “freedom-loving” U.S. has been practicing the forced sterilization of its least desirable citizens since the early twentieth century. It is conservatively estimated that over 60,000 American citizens suffered this procedure until it was supposedly abolished little by little, state by state, in the…

Source — Prison Legal News

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United States: trans inmate wins federal case to get gender affirming surgery

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Nicole Rose Campbell was diagnosed with gender dysphoria prior to going to Racine Correctional Institute, a medium-security men’s state prison in Wisconsin. She was “permitted to receive hormone treatments, counseling, and even allowed to wear some women’s clothing” since starting her sentence, but was…

Source — LGBTQ Nation

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India: from segregation to labour, Manu’s caste law governs the prison system

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Caste-based labour, in fact, is sanctioned in the prison manuals of many states. The colonial texts of the late 19th century have barely seen any amendments, and caste-based labour remains an untouched part of these manuals. While every state has its own unique prison manual, they are mostly based on…

Source — The Wire

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France : en Bretagne, des protections gratuites dans les prisons contre la précarité menstruelle

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United States: reproductive justice prison system

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The United States imprisons the most women in the world. Across the United States, approximately 200,000 women are incarcerated—nearly an 800 percent increase since 1980. Women of color are disproportionately affected by the criminal justice system. In 2017, twice as many Black women and 1.3 times as…

Source — New Security Beat

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India: NCRB to include transpersons as separate category in prison statistics, Delhi HC told

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The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has agreed to include transgender as a separate category in the gender classification of prisoners in their annual publication of prison statistics 2020, it informed the Delhi High Court on Monday. Additional Solicitor General Chetan Sharma told a Division Bench…

Source — Times now

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Turquie : vingt ans après ma libération

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République démocratique du Congo : des femmes détenues violées lors des émeutes à la prison de Lubumbashi

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Arabia Saudí: las auténticas reformistas están entre rejas

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Grecia: deben retirarse los cargos contra activistas de los derechos de las mujeres, entre quienes hay personal de Amnistía

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Arabia Saudí: Loujain al-Hathloul debe ser liberada sin condiciones

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Ireland: prison service to spend €1.6m on bras, underwear for inmates

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The Irish Prison Service (IPS) is set to spend more than €1.6m on bras, underwear, anoraks, and other items of clothing for inmates over the next three years. Nighties, dressing gowns, and tracksuits are among 30 categories of clothing sought by the IPS in an invitation for tenders. The successful supplier…

Source — Irish examiner

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Canada: why Covid-19 shows it’s time to consider prison abolition

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There are five federal prisons for women in Canada, none of which are in Newfoundland. For women from the province facing a federal sentence, this usually means they will serve their time in the Nova Institution for Women (Nova) in Truro, Nova Scotia. Being a province away from their communities means… Read more
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Argentina: cárceles solidarias, presas hicieron y donaron 180 pelucas para pacientes oncológicos

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Arabia Saudí: líderes del G20, no se dejen engañar. Las verdaderas agentes del cambio están en la cárcel

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Thailand: activists protest against human rights violations in women’s prison

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The group, led by Ploy Dechwongsa and Kornkanok Khumta, held up signs saying “unchain political prisoners” and “this is all they can do to us” in front of the Central Women Correctional Institution. They also read a statement calling for the Department of Corrections to follow the International Covenant…

Source — Prachatai

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United States: California law is step forward but fails to guarantee safety for trans prisoners

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Syiaah Skylit has been imprisoned in California since 2015. Despite multiple requests to be placed in a women’s prison, Skylit, a Black trans woman, has always been incarcerated in the state’s men’s prisons. There, she has faced attacks by incarcerated men as well as sexual abuse and retaliation by prison…

Source — Truthout

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France : faim, manque d’hygiène et chantage, le calvaire des pauvres en prison

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Le calvaire des femmes incarcérées pendant la pandémie de COVID-19

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Arabia Saudí: el Women20 debe exigir la liberación de las activistas saudíes encarceladas

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