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Nimba county prison inmate looks through a window of a cell, Liberia, 2008
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human rights

WHO reveals one-third of prisoners in Europe suffer mental health disorders

Hands holding prison bars
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human rights

FRA: How to better protect children in criminal proceedings

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human rights

European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA): Criminal detention conditions database updated

Overcrowded prisons
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Council of Europe

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

human rights protection

Death penalty should be abolished: Mass executions in Saudi Arabia and Egypt

UN expert: States should ensure accountability, transparency and access to sites of secret detention
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United Nations

UN expert: States should ensure accountability, transparency and access to sites of secret detention

UN torture prevention body calls for vaccination programmes for people deprived of liberty
COVID-19

Vaccination programmes for people deprived of liberty

human rights

Council of Europe: Committee for the Prevention of Torture warns against impact of austerity measures on prison conditions

Italy

SPACE Report: Europe’s imprisonment rate continues to fall

Italy

A toast for the 30th anniversary of Antigone, 18 February 2021 at 18.30

Guantanamo camp
human rights

Close ‘disgraceful’ Guantánamo camp – UN experts urge incoming US administration

Children deprived of liberty
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Children

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.

People participating Women's March in Washington D.C. holding a sign written: Trans Rights are Human Rights.
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LGBTQI+

Inside Turkey’s Prisons: Protecting Human Rights of Transgender Prisoners

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Council of Europe

Message from the Office of the National Ombudsperson for the Rights of Detainees and Persons Deprived of their Liberty to the imprisoned population

The shape of a pensive and worried person behind a bar
Italy

National Ombudsperson for Detainees: presentation of the collection of recommendations "Norms and normality"