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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
CHRI: This fact sheet highlights the challenges of women working in public spaces in Ghana gathered through a desk review and engagement with some women...
Themes: Courts Systems | Human Rights | Petty Offences | #PoorNotGuilty | Pre-trial Detention | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary
Year: 2024
Prison Insider: Thousands of Palestinians are currently deprived of their liberty by the Israeli authorities, a figure that has risen sharply since 7 October 2023....
Themes: Human Rights | Petty Offences | Policing | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Torture | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary | Collections
Year: 2024
This Practitioners’ Guide addresses the global, growing trend towards the wrongful criminalisation of conduct associated with poverty, homelessness and status by presenting a human rights-based...
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 | Training Materials | Flagship
Year: 2024
It is estimated that more than 1.2 million people are homeless in the European Union, a figure that has risen sharply over the last ten...
Themes: Human Rights | Petty Offences | #PoorNotGuilty | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Report
Year: 2024
Prison Insider: A study on how prison administrations around the world account for climate change and implement the ecological transition.Climate change and the need to...
Themes: Human Rights | Prisons
Type: Report
Year: 2024
How correctional administrations are responding to the climate crisis The surge in climate-related disasters is creating unprecedented challenges for public institutions, and prison administrations are...
Themes: Human Rights | Prisons
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary
Year: 2024
A touch of green on prison administrations The climate is changing, and the environmental is deteriorating. Public institutions are being forced to radically review the...
Themes: Human Rights | Prisons
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary
Year: 2024
On February 9, 2024, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) lifted the moratorium on executions that had been in place since 2003....
Themes: Activism | Human Rights
Type: Report
Year: 2024
Latest Digest now available Our Campaign Digest provide updates on ongoing litigation cases challenging various laws that criminalise poverty and status, partner’s updates, as well...
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: 2024
The Dullah Omar Institute welcomes the opportunity to make a statement in response to the activity report of the Special rapporteur on Prisons, Conditions of...
Themes: Courts Systems | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Policing | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2024
This Ten-point plan is designed to support policy makers and practitioners in involving people with lived experience of the criminal justice system in reform efforts....
Themes: Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Policing | #PoorNotGuilty | Prisons | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Report
Year: 2024
Peaceful protest is a powerful and public way for people to make their voices heard. It has long been a vital means for advancing human...
Themes: Activism | Human Rights | Protests
Type: Report
Year: 2024
Prison Insider publishes its country profile on prisons in South Africa. This publication is the result of work carried out in collaboration with various people...
Themes: Prisons
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary
Year: 2024
Study by the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights and by the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right...
Themes: Cost of Exclusion | Courts Systems | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Policing | #PoorNotGuilty | Public Health | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Report
Year: 2024
Collecting and publishing statistics about the use and practice of imprisonment is a crucial tool for governments to assess the effectiveness of criminal justice policies....
Themes: Prisons
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary | Guidelines
Year: 2024
The National Women’s Justice Coalition (NWJC) champions and promotes best practice for working with women in contact with the criminal justice system. This library catalogues a wide...
Themes: Alternatives to Criminalisation | Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Policing | Public Health | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Torture | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary | Collections | Journal Article | News Article | Report | Training Materials
Year: 2024
This report presents the findings of an empirical investigation into criminalization of poverty in Haiti. The research, conducted by the Center for research and exchange...
Themes: Courts Systems | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons
Type: Report
Year: 2024
ASF just published a report that explores the level of knowledge, the attitudes and practices of key stakeholders towards pre-trial detention under the criminal justice system in...
Themes: Courts Systems | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons
Type: Guidelines | Report
Year: 2024
Throughout the globe, governments use petty offenses, such as vagrancy and loitering laws, to exert social control over poor and marginalized communities. Moreover, people experiencing...
Themes: Human Rights | Petty Offences | #PoorNotGuilty | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Report
Year: 2024
ICJ-Kenya: It has been eight years (8) since the adoption of a global call for Gender Equality and Empowerment- Sustainable Development Goals Agenda 2030. The...
Themes: Cost of Exclusion | Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Policing | #PoorNotGuilty | Pre-trial Detention | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary
Year: 2024
Fees & Fines Justice Center: As 2024 sessions start to rev up, now is the time for fines and fees reform advocates to take stock...
Themes: Courts Systems | Fees and Fines
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary | News Article
Year: 2024
APCOF delivered a statement on behalf of the Campaign during the 75th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, being held now in Banjul...
Themes: Human Rights | Petty Offences | Prisons | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2023
Report of violations against LGBTQ persons for the first month following the passing of Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill HRAPF: Thursday, 20th April 2023 marked the 30th...
Themes: Human Rights
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary | Report
Year: 2023
HRAPF: On 25th April 2023, President Yoweri Museveni [of Uganda] sent the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023 back to Parliament with a request that they reconsider several...
Themes: Human Rights
Type: Guidelines | Report
Year: 2023
Original article: ICJ publishes a new set of legal principles to address the harmful human rights impact of unjustified criminalization of individuals and entire communities....
Themes: Petty Offences | #PoorNotGuilty | Human Rights | Public Health | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary | Guidelines
Year: 2023
From Fair Trials: What a person suspected of a crime says or doesn’t say in police custody can have a significant impact on an investigation...
Themes: Courts Systems | Policing | Pre-trial Detention
Type: Video
Year: 2023
This Manual provides an overview of the current policy and legal framework for persons with mental disability, including regional and international instruments that provide for...
Themes: Courts Systems | Human Rights | Policing | Public Health | Prisons
Type: Guidelines | Report | Training Materials
Year: 2023
Over the span of 2021, local Tennessee organizers from Free Hearts surveyed over 500 people to learn about how overcriminalization affected their lives and their...
Themes: Alternatives to Criminalisation | Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Petty Offences | #PoorNotGuilty | Pre-trial Detention | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Report | Testimonials
Year: 2023
Invisible People: This video is a handy guide for parents and teachers, jam-packed with good advice on how to chat with kids about a pretty...
Themes: Human Rights | Petty Offences | #PoorNotGuilty | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Video
Year: 2023
Housing is a human right. Inspired in modern times as part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s Second Bill of Rights and later developed by the international...
Themes: Human Rights | #PoorNotGuilty | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Report
Year: 2023
Over the past 3 years, Lawyers Alert has been monitoring and documenting human rights violations associated with petty offences in Nigeria. This present report is...
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: Report
Year: 2023
PRI: This publication has been developed to guide trainers leading 4-day in-person training courses for prison staff designed by the OSCE’s Office of Democratic Institutions...
Themes: Human Rights | Policing | Prisons
Type: Training Materials
Year: 2023
The National Homelessness Law Center, Human Rights Clinic of the University of Miami School of Law, and partners have submitted a report to the Special...
Themes: Alternatives to Criminalisation | Courts Systems | Human Rights | Petty Offences | #PoorNotGuilty | Public Health | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2023
IDPC: In September 2023, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights released a landmark report on human rights in drug policy. Prepared at the request...
Themes: Alternatives to Criminalisation | Human Rights | Public Health
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary
Year: 2023
The present report, submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 76/133, provides a review of the progress, gaps and challenges in inclusive social development policies and...
Themes: Human Rights | Petty Offences | #PoorNotGuilty | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Report
Year: 2023
The Human Rights Measurement Initiative is part of a global movement building a world where all people can flourish. We track the human rights progress of...
Themes: Activism | Human Rights | Protests
Type: Collections
Year: 2023
Shadow Report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee For the United States’ Review of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The U.S....
Themes: Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Petty Offences | #PoorNotGuilty | Public Health | Prisons | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Report
Year: 2023
The Global Study centers the daily, lived experiences for civil society from across the globe operating amidst closing civic space and the widespread misuse of...
Themes: Activism | Human Rights | Protests | Torture
Type: Report
Year: 2023
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
Year: 2023
From 27 to 29 September 2022, representatives from over 40 organisations from over 30 countries, gathered in Stellenbosch, South Africa, for the Campaign’s Annual Convening...
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: Report
Year: 2023
In 2022, human rights defenders (HRDs) around the world collectively inspired transformative change within their societies with bold, creative and peaceful human rights action. Despite...
Themes: Activism | Human Rights
Type: Report
Year: 2023
Mexico: In Latin America it is not uncommon to find people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities who have been unfairly and wrongfully deprived of their...
Themes: Courts Systems | Human Rights | Public Health
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2023
On 9 June 1998, African States meeting in Burkina Faso created the African Court by adopting the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights...
Themes: Courts Systems
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary | Collections | Training Materials | Video
Year: 2023
JPP: Pakistan is currently undergoing its last review and assessment of the GSP+ under the current system. The resulting EU report will reflect on the...
Themes: Human Rights | Prisons | Torture
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary | Collections | Guidelines | Report
Year: 2023
Features Justice for All: Global action to combat discrimination and inequality in criminal justice systems: On 25 May 2023, the Campaign and co-sponsors, the United...
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
Year: 2023
ACJR’s submission is in response to the call from the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions (UNSR) to collect information on practices...
Themes: Courts Systems | Human Rights | Policing | Prisons
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2023
This submission was made to the Subcommitee for the Prevention of Torture and Other and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (SPT) on...
Themes: Courts Systems | Human Rights | Policing | Public Health | Prisons | Torture
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2023
After signing the Optional Protocol to UNCAT (OPCAT) in 2006 and ratifying it in March 2019, South Africa designated a National Preventive Mechanism (NPM), with...
Themes: Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Policing | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Torture
Type: Report
Year: 2023
The Poor Not Guilty: Fines & Fees Challenge can be used to sensitize audiences to the difficulties faced by poor and homeless people in the...
Themes: #PoorNotGuilty | Fees and Fines
Type: Training Materials
Year: 2023
Penal Reform International: The European Prison Rules, adopted by the Council of Europe, set out standards on the management of prisons and the treatment of...
Themes: Human Rights | Public Health | Prisons | Torture
Type: Guidelines
Year: 2023
Advocates and researchers agree that solutions to homelessness must address the root causes. Communities need to increase access to quality, affordable permanent housing, and they...
Themes: Alternatives to Criminalisation | Human Rights | Policing | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary
Year: 2023
Fines and other financial sanctions are frequently imposed by criminal justice systems around the world. Yet they also raise grave concerns about economic discrimination. Unless...
Themes: Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Petty Offences
Type: Journal Article
Year: 2023
Lawyers Alert, with the support of OSIWA, has carried out various levels of advocacy to the judiciary and legislatures towards understanding the impact of criminalising...
Themes: Petty Offences
Type: Report
Year: 2023
Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this...
Themes: #PoorNotGuilty | Human Rights | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Listings
Year: 2023
Incarceration is the response that States often impose on unwanted behaviours. In many countries, criminal law and prison are used to target those who have...
Themes: Alternatives to Criminalisation | Courts Systems | Human Rights | Petty Offences | #PoorNotGuilty | Public Health | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Collections | Testimonials | Flagship
Year: 2023
Características Justiça para todos: Ação global para combater a discriminação e a desigualdade nos sistemas de justiça criminal: Em 25 de maio de 2023, a...
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
Year: 2023
The participants of the convening of the Campaign to Decriminalise Poverty and Status, held in Stellenbosch, South Africa between 27 and 29 September 2022 gathered...
Themes: 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 | Flagship
Year: 2023
Below is a summarised version of the Cape Declaration that the participants of the convening of the Campaign to Decriminalise Poverty and Status, drafted in...
Themes: Petty Offences | #PoorNotGuilty | Activism | Alternatives to Criminalisation | Cost of Exclusion | Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Policing | Public Health | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Protests | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Submission/Statements | Flagship
Year: 2023
A report to the UN Expert Mechanism on Racial Justice and Law Enforcement on the intersection of racism, homelessness, and law enforcement in the U.S.
Themes: #PoorNotGuilty | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2023
Partner IDPC’s Drug decriminalisation [e]Course is a free-to-access online learning course that is open to anyone interested in this important topic. When done properly, the...
Themes: Human Rights | Public Health
Type: Training Materials
Year: 2023
From partner Prison Reform International: This discussion guide sets out findings from an exploratory study on Roma persons’ access to and experience of non-custodial sanctions...
Themes: Alternatives to Criminalisation | Human Rights | Prisons
Type: Guidelines | Report
Year: 2023
Prisons, often overcrowded and unsanitary, permanently affect the physical and mental health of prisoners. Prison Insider examines addictive disorders in prison and the treatment that...
Themes: Alternatives to Criminalisation | Human Rights | Public Health | Prisons
Type: Testimonials
Year: 2023
Report from Amnesty International and Omega Foundation: Across the world peaceful protesters have faced waves of repression from police and military forces in deliberate attempts...
Themes: Activism | Human Rights | Policing | Protests
Type: Report
Year: 2023
Resources compiled by partner Harm Reduction International: 35 countries retain the death penalty for drugs, even though it is a violation of international law. Drug...
Themes: Petty Offences | Human Rights | Public Health | Prisons
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary | Guidelines | Report | Testimonials
Year: 2023
Amnesty International: Today 62 countries across the world have laws that criminalize same–sex conduct, many of which trace their origins back to colonialism. Many of...
Themes: Human Rights
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2023
PRI: Global Prison Trends 2023 is PRI’s annual flagship report, published with the Thailand Institute of Justice, examining key trends and challenges in prison systems worldwide....
Themes: Prisons
Type: Report
Year: 2023
Our latest campaign digest is out now. With highlights from the campaign activities and partners updates, the latest digest provides an overview of what has...
Themes: Petty Offences | #PoorNotGuilty | Activism | Alternatives to Criminalisation | Cost of Exclusion | Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Policing | Public Health | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Protests | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Digest
Year: 2023
On 4 December 2020, the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights (the Court) rendered a landmark Advisory Opinion on the consonance of the Vagrancy Laws with...
Themes: Petty Offences | Human Rights
Type: Judgements | Submission/Statements | Flagship
Year: 2022
A short video tailored to local populations, raising awareness about the ‘loitering’ law in use in Sierra Leone.
Themes: Petty Offences | Alternatives to Criminalisation | Cost of Exclusion | Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Policing | Prisons | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Video
Year: 2022
Abstract: Court-related fines and fees are widely levied on criminal defendants who are frequently poor and have little capacity to pay. Such financial obligations may...
Themes: Alternatives to Criminalisation | Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Policing | #PoorNotGuilty | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons
Type: Journal Article
Year: 2022
Too often, in many countries, the criminal justice system is perceived to create significant obstacles to women’s access to justice despite the United Nations (UN)...
Themes: Alternatives to Criminalisation | Cost of Exclusion | Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Policing | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Torture | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Report
Year: 2022
List of Themes Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) For the United States Review
Themes: #PoorNotGuilty | Human Rights | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2022
Campaign partner, National Homelessness Law Center, collates helpful resources for combatting communities’ growing habit of criminalizing homelessness.
Themes: #PoorNotGuilty | Human Rights | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary | Guidelines | Listings
Year: 2022
A factsheet on using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to underpin advocacy around the right to adequate housing.
Themes: #PoorNotGuilty | Human Rights | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary
Year: 2022
A factsheet on a human rights approach to housing equality, outlining good practices and recommendations for the USA advocates.
Themes: #PoorNotGuilty
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary
Year: 2022
A factsheet on the right to housing and on the equality and affordability components of the right to housing, as well as tenant rights and...
Themes: #PoorNotGuilty | Human Rights | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary
Year: 2022
Petty Offences are basically those offences that were created by colonial masters in attempt to have a strong hold on people and right to self-expression...
Themes: Petty Offences
Type: Report
Year: 2022
Our latest campaign digest is out now. With highlights from the campaign actvities and campaign partners updates, the latest digest provides an overview of what...
Type: Digest
Year: 2022
The report points to the ills of prolonged pre-trial detention and presents an analysis of statistical data on imprisonment trends as well as the legal...
Themes: Human Rights | Petty Offences | Pre-trial Detention
Type: Guidelines | Report
Year: 2022
Themes: Petty Offences | Public Health
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2022
Francophone members of the Campaign and other organisations kickstarted ther advocacy efforts with the Organisation de la Francophonie, with the launching of the Djerba Declaration...
Themes: Petty Offences | Activism | Alternatives to Criminalisation | Cost of Exclusion | Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Policing | Public Health | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Protests | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Submission/Statements | Flagship
Year: 2022
For the U.S. review by the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Miami Law Human Rights Clinic, National Homelessness Law Center, and...
Themes: #PoorNotGuilty | Human Rights | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary | Submission/Statements
Year: 2022
The present guidelines complement and should be read in conjunction with the Committee’s general comment No. 5 (2017) on living independently and being included in...
Themes: Alternatives to Criminalisation | Human Rights | Public Health
Type: Guidelines
Year: 2022
This report highlights pressing issues in Nepal’s juvenile justice system. It reveals initial findings of a 2021 survey of 917 detained juveniles and includes case...
Themes: Petty Offences | Fees and Fines | Prisons
Type: Report
Year: 2021
Themes: Petty Offences | Alternatives to Criminalisation | Cost of Exclusion | Human Rights | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2021
Missed out on the latest updates from our partners? You can read the complete quarterly digest here: Digest – July to Dec 2021
Themes: 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
Year: 2021
From WIEGO: This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the implications for informal workers of the recent African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights’...
Themes: Alternatives to Criminalisation | Courts Systems | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Public Health | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Journal Article
Year: 2021
The quarterly newsletter for the campaign is now available here: Quarterly Digest: August 2021
Themes: 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
Year: 2021
The University of Miami School of Law Human Rights Clinic (“Clinic”), National Homelessness Law Center (“Law Center”), and Leilani Farha respectfully submit this brief as...
Themes: #PoorNotGuilty | Courts Systems | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Judgements
Year: 2021
Factsheet on the right to housing and on the equality and affordability components of the right to housing, as well as tenant rights and government...
Themes: #PoorNotGuilty | Human Rights | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary
Year: 2021
Purpose: To receive an overview on laws and regulations at national, federal state or local level that may still prohibit or sanction begging, staying, sleeping, easting...
Themes: #PoorNotGuilty | Human Rights | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Guidelines | Listings | Submission/Statements
Year: 2021
On 1 July 2021, the African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum (APCOF), together with the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), hosted a webinar to launch...
Themes: Petty Offences | Human Rights
Type: Report
Year: 2021
The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC)’s mission is to promote and advance human rights, democratic governance, rule of law and access to justice in Southern...
Themes: Petty Offences | Alternatives to Criminalisation | Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Policing | Prisons
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2021
The seminar of experts is one of several activities organized by the Organization Against Torture in Tunisia as part of the pan-African campaign “Poverty is...
Themes: Petty Offences | Alternatives to Criminalisation
Type: Report
Year: 2021
Access to justice has long seemed elusive for persons with various intellectual or psychosocial disabilities in Kenya. The fear of a child with an intellectual or psychosocial...
Themes: Petty Offences | Human Rights | Public Health
Type: Report
Year: 2021
Themes: Petty Offences | Courts Systems | Human Rights
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2021
The, better known as COVID-19, has triggered a worldwide pandemic which has also affected Nigeria. The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Nigeria was announced...
Themes: Public Health | Prisons
Type: Report
Year: 2021
Factsheet on the right to housing and on the equality and affordability components of the right to housing, as well as tenant rights and government...
Themes: #PoorNotGuilty | Human Rights | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary
Year: 2021
The Black Lives Matter movement, along with homelessness advocates, have exposed how the criminal justice system fails to address homelessness and how it has disproportionately...
Themes: #PoorNotGuilty | Human Rights | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary
Year: 2021
Factsheet on the right to housing and on the equality and affordability components of the right to housing, as well as, tenant rights and government...
Themes: #PoorNotGuilty | Human Rights | Public Health | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary
Year: 2021
Factsheet on the right to housing and on the equality and affordability components of the right to housing, as well as tenant rights and government...
Themes: #PoorNotGuilty | Human Rights | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary
Year: 2021
Factsheet on the right to housing and on the equality and affordability components of the right to housing, as well as tenant rights and government...
Themes: #PoorNotGuilty | Public Health | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary
Year: 2021
On behalf of the stakeholders present, the opening address was delivered by Mrs. Sashi Nchito who is a member of the SADC-LA Executive Committee. Sashi...
Themes: Petty Offences
Type: Report
Year: 2021
A factsheet on the ‘Right to Housing’ produced by the Human Rights Clinic at the University of Miami School of Law and the National Homelessness...
Themes: #PoorNotGuilty | Human Rights
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary
Year: 2021
Submitted to the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing & the Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights by the Campaign to...
Themes: Petty Offences | Human Rights | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2021
The issues of arbitrary arrest, the impact on the poor of criminalisation and enforcement of minor offences, and of overcrowding levels in many African systems...
Themes: Petty Offences | Public Health
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2020
Themes: Petty Offences | Policing | Public Health | Prisons
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2020
Themes: Courts Systems | Human Rights | Policing | Prisons
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2020
Ensuring an effective response With the rising spread of the pandemic COVID-19 across the Commonwealth and globally, this document has been prepared by the Commonwealth...
Themes: Courts Systems | Public Health | Prisons
Type: Report
Year: 2020
The Commission on Homelessness and Poverty’s resource clearinghouse Poverty and homelessness in the United States are largely outgrowths of institutionalized racism. Inequity in housing, education,...
Themes: Alternatives to Criminalisation | Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Policing | #PoorNotGuilty | Prisons | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary | Collections | Guidelines
Year: 2020
Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review of the United States of America, Third Cycle, May 2020.
Themes: #PoorNotGuilty | Human Rights | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2020
Proposed by-law amendments On 15 May 2020, ACJR made a submission dissuading the City of Cape Town from implementing a bill seeking to provide law-enforcement...
Themes: Petty Offences | Human Rights | Policing
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2020
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, various countries in the Southern African region have put in place restrictions on gatherings, free movement, commerce and expression....
Themes: Human Rights | Public Health
Type: Report
Year: 2020
Quality of victim support services and democratic policing Campaign partner, Africa Criminal Justice Reform (ACJR) provided a written representation to the Office of the Western...
Themes: Human Rights | Policing
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2020
Campaign partern, the African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum (APCOF) presented this submission to the Portfolio Committee on Police regarding policing practices in the enforcement of...
Themes: Human Rights | Policing | Public Health
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2020
The Kenyan Section of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ Kenya) held the fifth in a series of webinars on the impact of Covid-19 on...
Themes: Human Rights | Public Health
Type: Report
Year: 2020
Recommendations for urgent and systemic reform to prevent and address human rights violations of people in detention and serving sentences in the community, in the...
Themes: Human Rights | Policing | Public Health | Prisons
Type: Report
Year: 2020
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) prepared these two documents to assist State prison departments, prison visitors and monitoring institutions in periodic monitoring of prisons and...
Themes: Public Health | Prisons
Year: 2020
Themes: Petty Offences | Public Health | Prisons
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2020
For centuries, and across the world, penal laws have been used to regulate urban spaces, with a cruel focus on relegating poor and marginalized groups...
Themes: Petty Offences | Human Rights | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Journal Article | Flagship
Year: 2020
Themes: Human Rights | Policing | Public Health | Prisons
Type: Digest | Journal Article
Year: 2020
In September 2019, the Human Rights Clinic at the University of Miami School of Law hosted a symposium on challenging petty offenses that criminalize poverty, marginalization,...
Themes: Petty Offences | #PoorNotGuilty | Alternatives to Criminalisation | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Policing | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Digest | Journal Article
Year: 2020
Across the world, vagrancy offenses criminalize vaguely defined, heterogeneous forms of misconduct loosely associated with idleness. A court attempting to apply such laws has noted...
Themes: Petty Offences | Human Rights | Policing | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Journal Article | Flagship
Year: 2020
Our submission highlights problematic municipal by-laws that have the effect of criminalising urban poverty, and entrenching discrimination and social-economic marginalisation. These laws are relevant to...
Themes: Petty Offences | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2020
We welcome the opportunity to provide comments on the City of Cape Town’s proposed amendments to the Streets, Public Places and the Prevention of Noise...
Themes: Petty Offences | Human Rights | Policing | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2020
Detention is not the appropriate sanction for the contravention of petty laws. This fact sheet provides an overview of non-custodial sanctions or orders a court...
Themes: Petty Offences | Courts Systems
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary | Flagship
Year: 2020
The Pan African Parliament (PAP) approved a model law intended to transform the Police services in Africa from what they termed as oppressive to one...
Themes: Petty Offences | Alternatives to Criminalisation | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Policing | Prisons
Type: Guidelines | Training Materials | Flagship
Year: 2019
Housing is a human right. While three-quarters of Americans agree that housing is a human right, and an increasing number of elected officials are addressing...
Themes: #PoorNotGuilty | Human Rights | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Report
Year: 2019
Petty Offenses Symposium Report Throughout the globe, petty offenses, such as loitering laws, are used to exert social control. They criminalize poverty, increase marginalization, and...
Themes: Petty Offences | #PoorNotGuilty | Policing | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Report
Year: 2019
Themes: Petty Offences | Human Rights | Policing
Type: News Article
Year: 2019
This factsheet highlighted alternative options that a prosecutor can agree to with regard to petty offences. The factsheet advocates that diversion options embedded in the...
Themes: Petty Offences | Alternatives to Criminalisation | Policing
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary | Flagship
Year: 2019
Alternatives to arrest and detention Petty offences are generally minor, non-violent and victimless. Interventions by the criminal justice system should always be kept to the...
Themes: Petty Offences | Alternatives to Criminalisation | Fees and Fines | Policing
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary | Flagship
Year: 2019
The panel affirmed in part and reversed in part the district court’s summary judgment in an action brought by six current or formerly homeless City...
Themes: #PoorNotGuilty | Courts Systems | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Judgements
Year: 2018
The criminal justice system in many African countries is characterized by widespread criminalization and punishment of petty offenses through arbitrary arrests which provides a basis...
Themes: Petty Offences
Type: Guidelines | Flagship
Year: 2018
A Research Report on the Human Rights Challenges across two South African provinces Within a context where gender-based violence (GBV) is endemic, sex workers in...
Themes: Petty Offences | Policing
Type: Report
Year: 2017
Evidence and Arguments for the Decriminalisation and Declassification of Petty Offences The Ouagadougou Declaration and Plan of Action on Accelerating Prison and Penal Reform in...
Themes: Petty Offences | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Policing
Type: Report | Flagship
Year: 2015
Criminalising and penalising homeless people for carrying out life-sustaining activities in public because there is nowhere to go is a problem across the EU. Policies...
Themes: #PoorNotGuilty | Human Rights | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Report
Year: 2013
Housing Rights Watch and FEANTSA have been working on the issues of criminalisation of homelessness since 2012. In 2012 we launched and ran a campaign to raise awareness...
Themes: Petty Offences | #PoorNotGuilty | Human Rights | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Collections | Report
Year: 2012
Type: Guidelines
Year: 2008
Themes: Human Rights
Type: Guidelines
Year: 1991
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.
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