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Prison cell
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Failure to Provide Adequate Mental Healthcare to Mentally Ill Detainees: Community-Based Care as an Alternative?

Sofia Vanzan graduated in 2023 with an LLM in International Human Rights Law at the University of Groningen, with a thesis on the right to healthcare for detainees. Previously, she obtained an LLM ...

Last update 26 Mar 2024
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WHO reveals one-third of prisoners in Europe suffer mental health disorders

According to the new report, launched by the World Health Organization (WHO), one in three prisoners in Europe suffer from mental health disorders. The overview is based on survey data from 36 ...

Last update 27 Feb 2023
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European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA): Criminal detention conditions database updated

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has published its updated online criminal detention database. For the first time, it covers detention conditions of women and prison food. ...

Last update 28 Jun 2022
Overcrowded prisons
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Prison overcrowding: the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture calls for setting a limit to the number of inmates in every prison and promoting non-custodial measures

The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT)  called upon the European states to address the problem of persistent prison overcrowding. “Prison ...

Last update 6 Jun 2022
Prison cell
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Death penalty should be abolished: Mass executions in Saudi Arabia and Egypt

While the world is focusing on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, other serious violations of human rights continue to take place in other parts of the world. Recently, the mass executions in Saudi ...

Last update 7 Apr 2022
UN expert: States should ensure accountability, transparency and access to sites of secret detention
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UN expert: States should ensure accountability, transparency and access to sites of secret detention

The Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, presented her Follow-up report on the ...

Last update 20 Apr 2022
UN torture prevention body calls for vaccination programmes for people deprived of liberty
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Vaccination programmes for people deprived of liberty

The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture(SPT) has called on States to ensure that people deprived of liberty are included in national vaccination programmes against COVID-19, and to continue ...

Last update 23 Aug 2021
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Council of Europe: Committee for the Prevention of Torture warns against impact of austerity measures on prison conditions

The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) has issued a set of minimum requirements for conditions of detention in European prisons, concerned by the negative ...

Last update 14 May 2021
Prison cell
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SPACE Report: Europe’s imprisonment rate continues to fall

The Council of Europe has published the Annual Penal Statistics on Prison Populations for 2020, also known as the SPACE statistics report. The report gives an overview of the 2020 criminal ...

Last update 19 Apr 2021
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A toast for the 30th anniversary of Antigone, 18 February 2021 at 18.30

On 18 February, on the occasion of its 30th anniversary, Antigone, the Italian NGO for rights and guarantees in the criminal system will hold a collective toast on the Zoom platform. Antigone is a ...

Last update 16 Feb 2021
Guantanamo camp
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Close ‘disgraceful’ Guantánamo camp – UN experts urge incoming US administration

Exactly after 19 years after the establishment of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, on 11 January 2021, the UN independent human rights experts urged the incoming United States ...

Last update 12 Jan 2021
Children deprived of liberty
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Global Campus of Human Rights: MOOC on Children Deprived of Liberty: Enacting the Recommendations of the UN Global Study. Free enrolment until 27 December 2020.

The Global Campus launched its new MOOC on Children Deprived of Liberty: Enacting the Recommendations of the UN Global Study. In 2019 the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty denounced ...

Last update 17 Nov 2020
COVID-19 public health mural in Mathare slum in Nairobi, Kenya April 14, 2020
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United Nations System

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) Statement on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and economic, social and cultural rights, 17 April 2020.  Department of ...

Last update 30 Nov 2020
People participating Women's March in Washington D.C. holding a sign written: Trans Rights are Human Rights.
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Inside Turkey’s Prisons: Protecting Human Rights of Transgender Prisoners

Demet Gümüş holds a master’s degree in Human Rights and Multi-level Governance from the University of Padova. This article is an excerpt from her master’s thesis discussed in ...

Last update 26 Mar 2024
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Message from the Office of the National Ombudsperson for the Rights of Detainees and Persons Deprived of their Liberty to the imprisoned population

Appeal of the president Mauro Palma to the prisoners In Rome 21 March 2020, Mr Mauro Palma, the president of the Office of the National Ombudsperson for the Rights of Detainees and Persons ...

Last update 21 Apr 2020