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DRC: Manque d'accès aux soins
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Africa
Health
Congo - Kinshasa
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Human rights in the Argentine criminal system
Analysis
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South America
Argentina
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LGBTI people deprived of their freedom: ring the warning bell
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LGBTI
— Published on the 17th of May 2019.
Gang rapes, harassment, inhumane treatment, insults: LGTBI people1 are victims of physical and verbal abuse. Imprisonment exposes them to more risks.
The Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) has published a practical guide for the protection of LGTBI people…
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DRC: insufficient health care at Makala Prison
Analysis
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Africa
The prisoners at Makala’s main prison** are sick.There are 7,750 inmates at the prison, and not enough doctors.
The inmates claim, “We are sick, but since there is no doctor to see us, we have no access to any medicine.”
The Bill Clinton Foundation for Peace says that they are “concerned” about allegedly…
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Death penalty: global trends
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Reduction of 30% in the number of executions, decrease in the number of countries having recourse to the executions: human rights organisation Amnesty international publishes its 2018 report on recourse to the death penalty. The organisation describes the global trend towards the abolition of the punishment…
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Togo: repressed political commitment
Analysis
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Africa
Togo
The opposition parties and the Togolese civil society have been mobilised since the month of August in 2017 to denounce the corruption, social injustice, and human rights violations committed by those in positions of authority.
After a year of observation, the Associations Against Impunity Collective…
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Nepal: strong resemblance to the past
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Despite the ratification of six key international human rights treaties by Nepal, AF lawyers have witnessed numerous cases of ill-treatments and tortures in police detention centers, where those behaviors have been proven to be more likely to happen.
To AF, the implementation of these legal instruments,…
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Sharp rise in the number of prisoners in England and Wales
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The organization, Prison Reform Trust, has just issued a brief document presenting key-figures about incarceration in England and Wales, which shows the highest imprisonment rate in Western Europe. But there is more, and the findings are not inspiring.
The number of prisoners has extraordinarily increased.…
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Chile: overcrowded cells with no water and ill treatment
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South America
Overcrowding
On the 18th of May 2018, the Chilean National Institute of Human Rights (INDH) published a report about the jail conditions in Chile. The study encompasses 43 Chilean prisons that have been visited by this independent institution between 2014 and 2015.
Overcrowding
Even though Chile is the safest…
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Venezuela : malnutrition and tuberculosis
Analysis
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South America
Health
Overcrowding, food shortage, presence of weapons and drugs, and tuberculosis: the Venezuelan Prisons Observatory (commonly known by its Spanish acronym OVP) published its 2017 Annual Report, which documented the collapse of the penitentiary system throughout the country.
The Venezuelan prison system…
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Global prison trends 2018
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—Published on the 2nd of June 2018
Penal Reform International and the Thailand Institute of Justice co-published their 2018 annual report aiming to provide a global account on the state of prisons and the use of imprisonment throughout the world.
The first acknowledgment is, unsurprisingly, that detention…
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Ukraine: the roof is leaking
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A monitoring team led by the representative of the Commissioner on the implementation of the national preventive mechanism, Vyacheslav Petlyovaniy, together with director of “Ukraine without torture” Aleksand Hatiyatullin, visited the Bucha Penitentiary Institution (N° 85) on 3 April 2018.
Colony N°85,…
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Italy: challenges ahead
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Europe
Italy
– Published 25 May 2018.
Antigone has been advocating for a long time to urge the Government to reform the penitentiary system.
A law was supposed to bring significant changes, such as:
Equalization of psychiatric diseases to physical diseases with the aim of providing an adequate medical and juridical…
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Deplorable prison conditions in Ukraine
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On February 7, 2018, NGO Ukraine Without Torture made a monitoring visit to the Ladyzhin Correctional Colony (No. 39), located in the Vinnytsia region (west border). They were accompanied by members of the Department for the implementation of the national preventive mechanism and representatives of the…
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Improving Italian prisons
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Monitoring prisons, studies on discrimination against foreigners, proposals on justice to the legislative candidates, reform for the penitentiary code and report on Italy’s juvenile detention facilities. Overview of the different spheres of action and militant activities of the italian association, Antigone.
Antigone…
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Saharawi prisoners: from bad to worse
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Kidnapping, torture, arbitrary detention, humiliations, deplorable health conditions…
Saharawi political prisoners are victims of gross human rights violations perpetrated by Moroccan police and prison officials. Both national and international organizations point this out on regular basis.
After three…
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In Russia, the prisoners are dragged around
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— Published 13 December 2017.
“The prisoner becomes a package that is sent from a point A to a point B along some cunning logistical route” – Ivan Pavlov, human rights lawyer
A 3.5 square meter train wagon shared by 20 prisoners for journeys going up to a month: welcome to the reality of prisoners who…
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Alarming prison conditions of political prisoners in Morocco
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Africa
Morocco
A short report sheds light on alarming prison conditions of political prisoners in Morocco.
Nineteen prisoners were separated and sent in 7 different prisons thoughout Morocco.
Since their transfer almost all prisoners entered a hunger strike in protest against the conditions they are currently held,…
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"Surviving hell" in Eastern Ukraine
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Prison Insider’s correspondents in Ukraine shared several materials describing the conditions of detention in the Donbas region, in the East of the country. It is composed of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Due to the crisis which started in 2014, Ukraine is divided between the so-called pro Europeans…
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Nepal: the challenges of achieving justice
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Southeast Asia and Pacific
For the first time in more than ten years, our correspondent in Nepal, Advocacy Forum (AF), is not in a position to conduct an assessment of whether the overall situation in regard of torture in police custody, during the last year, has improved or deteriorated.
This is due to a lack of cooperation from…
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Political police torture in Caracas (Venezuela)
Analysis
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South America
Electric shocks, beatings, waterboarding, asphyxiation with chemicals… The Venezuelan government, engulfed in an endless political crisis, reacts to protest movements with torture and arbitrary detentions. The Venezuelan NGO “A Window to Freedom” denounces these practices in its latest report (in Spanish).
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Use and over-use of imprisonment worldwide
Analysis
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Across much of the world, recent decades have seen rapid and unrelenting growth in the use of imprisonment as a response to crime and social disorder.
Today, well over 10 million people are imprisoned worldwide. Jurisdictions that have seen the fastest growth in prisoner numbers include the United States,…
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