PRAWA Executive Director, Dr. Uju Agomoh presented a paper on ‘Treatment of female prisoners / offenders: Implementation of the Bangkok rules’ at the third Biennial Conference of Africa Correctional Services […]
Youth and Mental Health (Mental Health Issues) We at PRAWA do not in any way neglect the urgency required in tackling the challenge of youth and mental health conditions; it has […]
When I was still young, my parents used to tell us how our family had been deported by the government from Ruhengeri to Nyamata in 1959, when massacres based on […]
“Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy” Aristotle Torture has been referred to as one of the hidden crimes of the world, not because people are unaware of its […]
Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza on Monday pardoned 3,000 convicts on the occasion of the country’s independence anniversary. “We seize the opportunity of the celebration of Burundi‟s 52nd anniversary to pardon […]
Rape is routinely used by state officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to torture politically active women, according to a new report from IRCT member Freedom from Torture. […]
The IRCT and several other justice and human rights organisations submitted comments suggesting amendments to General Comment No. 35 on Article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political […]
The ICPA Programme Committee invites individuals, agencies and organizations interested in presenting papers at the Association’s 2014 Annual Conference to submit ideas for consideration. The theme of the organization’s 16th […]
There is currently an opening for an expert member of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of People Living with HIV and Those at Risk, Vulnerable to and […]
Culled from the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com Meriam Yahya Ibrahim married US national Daniel Wani in 2011. She was arrested after a Muslim relative claimed the marriage was invalid, thus adulterous, because […]