Access to legal rights
LGBTI people deprived of their freedom: ring the warning bell
Analysis
Report
LGBTQI
Access to legal rights
Justice
Gang rapes, harassment, inhumane treatment, insults: LGTBI people are victims of physical and verbal abuse. Imprisonment exposes them to more risks.
France: le Défenseur des droits, vigie indispensable mais injustement ignorée
News
Europe
Access to legal rights
France
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France: from the pen to the polls
Interview
Europe
Access to legal rights
Discipline
France
As of 1994, convicted people are no longer stripped of their civil rights. In principle, the majority of prisoners retain their right to vote. However, only 2% of them were able to vote during the last presidential elections. Incarceration prevents many prisoners from exercising this right.
The Ro…
Europe
Access to legal rights
Belgium
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Camera intimă
Portfolio
Women
Europe
Access to legal rights
Material conditions
Social ties
Romania
Conjugal visits are allowed for prisoners and take place in private rooms, located inside the prison compound. Cosmin Bumbut photographed those places, when they were empty.
South America
Access to legal rights
Argentina
One of our correspondents, the International Prisons Observatory [“Observatorio Internacional de Prisiones,” or OIP] - Argentina section, recently addressed a letter to the Procurator of Buenos Aires Province to alert him to a series of disturbing observations made of prisons conditions in this pro…
#VotoPreso - A party where prisoners are not invited
Analysis
Opinion
South America
Access to legal rights
Justice
Chile
Chileans are preparing to vote for the second round of the 2017 presidential elections this coming December 17. Country with one of the highest incarceration rates in Latin America, the vote of its prison population can weigh heavily in an election that is likely to be tight.
Oceania
Access to legal rights
Discipline
Rehabilitation
Australia
The Melbourne barrister and human rights advocate Julian Burnside has warned politicians that tightening bail and parole laws at the expense of a right to justice and freedoms “is to hand victory to terrorists”.
His comments follow an announcement from the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, on Frida…
Different detention conditions for Palestinian prisoners
Investigations
Middle East
Access to legal rights
Justice
Torture
Violence
Israel
Nearly 7,000 Palestinian prisoners are incarcerated in Israeli prisons, under the military regime.
The facilities are located outside of the occupied territories, in total violation of international law. Arrested for political reasons, the detainees are particularly prone to arbitrary detention, to…
Australia : detaining high-risk terrorism offenders after jail term ends 'violates human rights'
News
Oceania
Access to legal rights
Justice
Australia
Australian human rights groups say proposed law effectively extends a prisoner’s sentence without the benefit of a trial.
Australian human rights groups have raised concerns over a proposed government bill that would allow for the continued detention of “high-risk terrorist” offenders at the end of…
Europe
Access to legal rights
Switzerland
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TEPSIS Papers
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Minors
Access to legal rights
Justice
Alternatives
Work
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