Following the European Commission’s Green Paper on Detention, the Detention Consultation NGO Working Group (a group of fourteen NGOs) calling on Commissioner Reading to come forward with a legislative proposal setting common minimum standards for the use of pre-trial detention. Read the open letter here (PDF – 358 KB) … More…
QCEA’s past work on the Women in Prison project, and our research into the use of Alternatives to Imprisonment, brought into focus the dysfunctions of prison systems in many European countries. In many cases prisons are overcrowded, and if there is a unifying philosophy beyond simply coping with record levels … More…
New QCEA report surveys prisoner reintegration policy in 20 European countries; EU Responses to Terrorism: a Paper Tiger on a Wild Goose Chase?; Israel: Democracy and Free Speech for all?
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Israel: Demokratie und Redefreiheit für alle?
Justice across borders – the challenge of foreign prisoners; Our energy security, their misery; EU Consultations – a way to make the Quaker voice heard
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EU-Konsultationen – eine Möglichkeit, die Stimme der Quäker hörbar zu machen; Grenzübergreifende Gerechtigkeit – das Problem im Umgang mit ausländischen Gefangenen
Roma Rights: The decade of inclusion; Introducing our new Programme Assistant; The Story of Budrus; Votes in Prison: An opportunity for social reintegration
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Die Rechte der Roma: Dekade der Eingliederung; Wahlrecht im Gefängnis: eine Möglichkeit zu sozialer Wiedereingliederung
Restorative Circles: A Testimony for Justice?; Introducing our new Programme Assistant; The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: In Pictures; Protecting the Human Rights of Prisoners
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Schutz für die Menschenrechte von Gefangenen
Press release on PACE resolution 1663 (2009) calling for the 47 member states of the Council of Europe to implement the provisions of the revised European Prison Rules. Read the press release here (pdf – 15kB) >> … More…
Titan or Titanic: prison report; New programme assistants Anya Whiteside and Steve Hynd; Peace Builders in the Western Balkans
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Friedenskräfte in den westlichen Balkanländern
In 2004, the Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA), Brussels and the Quaker United Nations Office QUNO – Geneva), Geneva embarked on a joint project to gather information on women in prison. The role of QCEA was to gather data on the conditions of women in prison in the member states of the Council of Europe. This report gives the results and makes recommendations to the European institutions and their member states on ways in which conditions for women in prison can be improved.
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Click on the country for individual country reports:
Denmark (Horserød) (pdf – 54kB) >>
England and Wales (pdf – 155kB) >>
Estonia (Harku) (pdf – 42kB) >>
Estonia (Tallinn) (pdf – 58kB) >>
Estonia (Tartu) (pdf – 49kB) >>
Latvia (Ilguciema) (pdf – 91kB) >>
Questionnaires used for these reports:
This document forms part of QCEA’s women in prison project. Our gender critique lists amendments and additions to Recommendation Rec(2006)2 with the status, rights and welfare of imprisoned women in mind. The critique has been informed by extensive research into the conditions of women’s imprisonment throughout Europe, which has taken … More…