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Drawing on African Human Rights Coalition (AHRC)’s long-standing documentation, protection, and country-conditions work across Africa, the report exposes patterns of sexualized violence, forced marriage, family...
Themes: Cost of Exclusion | Human Rights | Public Health | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons
Type: Journal Article | Report | Submission/Statements
Year: 2026
Amnesty International: In January 2026, human rights defenders Rocío San Miguel and Carlos Julio Rojas were released after being arbitrarily detained since February and April...
Themes: Activism | Courts Systems | Human Rights | Policing | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Protests | Torture | Use of Public Spaces
Type: News Article
Year: 2026
Amnesty International: Moroccan feminist and LGBTI rights defender, Ibtissame (“Betty”) Lachgar, is serving a 30-month prison sentence after being convicted of “causing harm to Islam”...
Themes: Activism | Courts Systems | Human Rights | Policing | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Protests | Torture
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2026
Prison conditions in Pakistan fall significantly short of international standards, with inmates facing numerous systemic challenges, including severe overcrowding, unhygienic living conditions, insufficient access to...
Themes: Courts Systems | Human Rights | Prisons
Type: Report
Year: 2025
The Global Prison Trends 2024 report is the 10th edition in this flagship series, offering a detailed overview of the major developments and challenges in...
Themes: Courts Systems | Human Rights | Prisons
Type: Report
Year: 2025
The GFF Charter was co-authored by the inaugural cohort of Global Freedom Fellows, from the first-ever fellowship program for formerly incarcerated leaders from around the...
Themes: Alternatives to Criminalisation | Courts Systems | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2025
The right to work in public spaces has recently become a highly contested issue; and the reality in most African countries is that those working...
Themes: Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Pre-trial Detention | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary | Report
Year: 2025
ICJ-Kenya: In July 2024 the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ-Kenya) Dullah Omar Institute, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative Africa (CHRI Africa) co-hosted a two-day consultative...
Themes: Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Pre-trial Detention | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary
Year: 2025
Prison Insider: Incarceration rates of girls and women are constantly on the rise. Between 2000 and 2022, their number has increased by almost 60%, compared...
Themes: Courts Systems | Human Rights | Public Health | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Torture
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary
Year: 2025
From Poverty to Punishment: Examining Laws and Practices Which Criminalise Women Due to Poverty or Status Worldwide exposes how unjust laws and policies disproportionately imprison...
Themes: Alternatives to Criminalisation | Cost of Exclusion | Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Policing | #PoorNotGuilty | Public Health | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary | Report | Flagship
Year: 2025
As members of the Campaign to Decriminalise Poverty and Status, the Neelan Tiruchelvam Trust and the International Legal Foundation (ILF) brought together actors in South...
Themes: Activism | Alternatives to Criminalisation | Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Policing | #PoorNotGuilty | Public Health | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Protests | Torture | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Report | Flagship
Year: 2025
Our Campaign Digest provide updates on ongoing litigation cases challenging various laws that criminalise poverty and status, partner’s updates, as well as the latest resources...
Themes: Activism | Alternatives to Criminalisation | Cost of Exclusion | Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Policing | #PoorNotGuilty | Public Health | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Protests | Torture | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Digest | Flagship
Year: 2025
Global Prison Trends 2025 is the eleventh edition of the flagship annual publication by Penal Reform International and the Thailand Institute of Justice. This report...
Themes: Courts Systems | Human Rights | Petty Offences | #PoorNotGuilty | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Torture
Type: Report
Year: 2025
A new report from the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s TrialWatch initiative, together with the Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice and Assistance (CHREAA) and the University of...
Themes: Courts Systems | Human Rights | Petty Offences | #PoorNotGuilty | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons
Type: Report
Year: 2025
A remarkable feature of the new Caribbean Constitutions is that they incorporate special provisions which protect existing customary and statutory laws against legal challenges where...
Themes: Activism | Alternatives to Criminalisation | Cost of Exclusion | Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Policing | #PoorNotGuilty | Public Health | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Protests | Torture | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Guidelines | Judgements | Report | Flagship
Year: 2025
Abolition of the death penalty cannot be imposed solely through legal or judicial means. It requires a deep-rooted transformation in people’s ways of thinking, which...
Themes: Activism | Courts Systems | Human Rights
Type: Guidelines | Training Materials
Year: 2025
In June 2025, the United Nations General Assembly convened a landmark high-level debate titled “A Second Chance: Addressing the Global Prison Challenge,” marking the 10th...
Themes: Activism | Alternatives to Criminalisation | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary
Year: 2025
Across Africa, criminal, security and “exceptional” laws often serve purposes far beyond their stated intent; they become instruments that undermine human rights, stifle dissent, and...
Themes: Activism | Alternatives to Criminalisation | Courts Systems | Human Rights
Type: Report
Year: 2025
Prisons are often hidden from public view, but within their walls, countless men and women grapple with depression, trauma, and isolation. Since 2023, StrongMinds has...
Themes: Activism | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Public Health | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Report
Year: 2025
Our report examines the narratives around ‘police efficiency’ and its everyday effects in Guna, Madhya Pradesh through police record of arrests. We evaluated the data...
Themes: Activism | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Report
Year: 2025
The Campaign to Decriminalise Poverty and Status is a coalition of organisations from across the world that advocate for the repeal of laws that target people based on poverty, status or for their activism.
@DecrimPS
#DecrimPoverty | #DecrimStatus | #DecrimActivism