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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
Harm Reduction International: The year 2025 was an exceptionally brutal one for global drug control. A record number of drug-related executions in a small but...
Themes: Alternatives to Criminalisation | Cost of Exclusion | Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Petty Offences | #PoorNotGuilty | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Torture | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary | Listings | Report | Submission/Statements
Year: 2026
The Commission on the Status of Women reaffirms the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the...
Themes: Cost of Exclusion | Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Petty Offences | #PoorNotGuilty | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary | Report | Submission/Statements
Year: 2026
Women Beyond Walls: A new report, Ending Strip Searching in Australian prisons, has also been launched this month by Formerly Incarcerated Girls Justice Advocates Melbourne (FIGJAM), Flat...
Themes: Alternatives to Criminalisation | Cost of Exclusion | Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Policing | #PoorNotGuilty | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons
Type: Report
Year: 2026
Women Beyond Walls were proud to be part of a special moment with Women Deliver, who recognised the rising rates of women’s criminalisation in the Melbourne Declaration,...
Themes: Activism | Alternatives to Criminalisation | Courts Systems | Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Policing | #PoorNotGuilty | Public Health | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Submission/Statements
Year: 2026
Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) In this report, the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (the Coalition or CICC) delves into the complex web of the...
Themes: Alternatives to Criminalisation | Cost of Exclusion | Courts Systems | Human Rights | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Report
Year: 2026
Penal Reform International (PRI): Global Prison Trends 2026 is the twelfth edition of the flagship annual publication by Penal Reform International and the Thailand Institute of Justice. This...
Themes: Alternatives to Criminalisation | Cost of Exclusion | Courts Systems | Human Rights | Public Health | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary | Report
Year: 2026
Women Beyond Walls co-hosted the Prison is a Feminist Issue: Reimagining Justice Concurrent Session alongside Sisters Inside and many other amazing partners. The session focused on...
Themes: Activism | Alternatives to Criminalisation | Courts Systems | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Policing | #PoorNotGuilty | Public Health | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Use of Public Spaces
Type: Collections | Report | Submission/Statements
Year: 2026
Our Campaign Digest provide updates on efforts from across the globe in the fight to decriminalise poverty, status and activism with 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
Year: 2026
Penal Reform International (PRI): Informed by lived experience, this guide sets out a human rights-based approach to prison work. It addresses key considerations for effective...
Themes: Alternatives to Criminalisation | Cost of Exclusion | Courts Systems | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Policing | #PoorNotGuilty | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons
Type: Briefing/Factsheet/Summary | Guidelines | Report
Year: 2026
FEANTSA: The European Committee of Social Rights (ESCR) of the Council of Europe condemned France in a case on the rights of homeless people and...
Themes: Fees and Fines | Human Rights | Petty Offences | Policing | #PoorNotGuilty | Pre-trial Detention | Prisons | Use of Public Spaces
Type: News Article | 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
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