1. The United Nations has been concerned with the humane treatment of all human beings, including those who are imprisoned. It has created and adopted a number of international legal instruments to protect and guarantee human rights and fundamental freedoms. The application in practice, however, of these instruments falls far short in many, perhaps most, countries.
2. Penal Reform International (PRI) is mandated inter alia to seek ‘to achieve penal reform, recognizing diverse cultural contexts, by promoting the development and implementation of the human rights instruments with regard to law enforcement, prison conditions and standards ...’.
3. PRI has, therefore, initiated a project, ‘Making Standards Work’, which has as its aim (i) the improved implementation of internationally recognised standards of prison treatment by making them better known, (ii) strengthening international contact between those concerned with these
The main part of this document is an outcome of the practical experiences of Penal Reform International (PRI) and Royal Netherlands Tuberculosis Foundation’s (KNCV) programmes aiming to improve tuberculosis (TB)/HIV management and human rights in prisons. The focus is Kazakhstan, where the largest and longest running joint project was implemented (1998-2004). Brief information is given also about the programme in Moldova (2003-2006).
When a person is detained or sentenced to imprisonment they are deprived of one of their most basic human rights: the right to liberty. The deprivation of liberty necessarily results in prisoners becoming dependant on the detaining authorities for the realization of their other basic human rights. As the Basic Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners sets out:
Except for those limitations that are demonstrably necessitated by the fact of incarceration, all prisoners shall retain the human rights and fundamental freedoms set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and, where the State concerned is a party, the International Covenant on Economic and Social Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Optional Protocol thereto, as well as such other rights as are set out in other United Nations Covenants.
Eighty delegates from Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, representing state institutions, law enforcement bodies, academic circles and civil society organisations, met in Gomel, Republic of Belarus from 11 to 13 October 2007 to discuss problems relating to the execution of criminal punishments for women. The Gomel Declaration on the Execution of Punishments for Women, stated below, is a result of debates and suggestions from conference participants. Bearing in mind the specificities of each country’s development it should be noted that the problems and measures highlighted in the Declaration are not equally relevant to all the states that participated in the conference. This document will be sent to national governments, legislative and executive bodies, law enforcement agencies, academic institutions, civil society organisations and other concerned entities and individuals to support future development and the improvement of criminal-executive policy concerning women in prison.
The Training Exercises and Topics for Discussion were developed by Agneta M. Johannsen. Agneta M. Johannsen has extensive experience in peacebuilding, gender and post-conflict transition. Agneta worked as advisor, staff and consultant with several international organisations, including the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme and the Japan International Cooperation Agency. She was Deputy to the Director of the War-torn Societies Project at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and led a research, training and evaluation team for the project’s successor organisation, WSP International. She has also worked for several non-governmental organisations. Agneta has also been Faculty Member at Webster University in Geneva and is a psychological counsellor. Combining her interests in international relations, psychology and anthropology, Agneta’s professional orientation has recently focused on cross-cultural communication, learning/training and trauma response. The Examples from the Ground were compiled by Beatrice Mosello and Ana Dangova of DCAF. This part of the Gender and SSR Training Resource Package was edited by Megan Bastick.
Каталог
публикаций и документов ООН, содержащихся в Библиотеке им. Дага
Хаммаршельда и в Библиотеке Отделения ООН в Женеве, а также изданий,
вышедших в свет вне системы ООН, которыми располагает Библиотека им.
Дага Хаммаршельда. Записи преимущественно с 1979 года по настоящее
время, однако благодаря ретроспективной конверсии и проекта Библиотеки
по переводу документов в цифровой формат, дополнительные документы за
предыдущие годы включаются в каталог ЮНБИСНЕТ. Тексты все большего
числа документов доступны на шести официальных языках (английском,
арабском, испанском, китайском, русском и французском), включая
резолюции Генеральной Ассамблеи, Экономического и Социального Совета,
Совета Безопасности и Совета по Опеке, начиная с 1946 года.
European Convention on the Supervision of Conditionally Sentenced or
Conditionally Released
Offenders (1964) – ETS 51
Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons (1983) – ETS 112
Additional Protocol to the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced
Persons (1997) – ETS 167
RECOMMENDATIONS
Rec(2006)13 on the use of remand in custody, the conditions in which it
takes place and the provision of safeguards against abuse
Rec(2006)2 on the European Prison Rules
Rec(2003)23 on the management of life-sentence and other long-term
prisoners
Rec(2003)22 concerning conditional release
Rec(2000)22 on improving the implementation of the European rules on
community sanctions and
measures
R(99)22 concerning prison overcrowding and prison population inflation
R(99)19 concerning mediation in penal matters
R(98)7 concerning the ethical and organisational aspects of health care
in prison
R(97)12 on staff concerned with the implementation of sanctions and
measures
R(93)6 concerning prison and criminological aspects of the control of
transmissible diseases including aids and related health problems in
prison
R(92)18 concerning the practical application of the Convention on the
Transfer of Sentenced Persons
R(92)16 on the European rules on community sanctions and measures
R(89)12 on education in prison
R (88)13 concerning the practical application of the Convention on the
Transfer of Sentenced Persons
R(84)12 concerning foreign prisoners
R(84)11 concerning information about the Convention on the Transfer of
Sentenced Persons
R(82)17 on the custody and treatment of dangerous prisoners
R(82)16 on prison leave
R(79)14 concerning the application of the European Convention on the
supervision of conditionally sentenced or conditionally released
offenders
RESOLUTIONS
Resolution (70) 1 on the practical organisation of measures for the
supervision and after-care of conditionally sentenced or conditionally
released offenders
Resolution (67) 5 on research on prisoners considered from the
individual angle and on the prison community
Resolution (62) 2 on electoral, civil and social rights of prisoners
