Prisoners' Rights Law Resources: International Resources

Resources for survivors of sexual abuse behind bars.

Human Rights Watch (links to documents)

World Health Organization (2023).

Adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 19 September 2001 at the 765th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies

International Labour Organization, May 1972 (rev. 2014).

Adopted by UN General Assembly Resolution 217A (III) of 10 December 1948 - Article 5: “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”

Adopted by UN General Assembly resolution 2200A (XXI), 16 December 1966

Adopted and proclaimed by UN General Assembly Resolution 45/111, 14 December 1990

Adopted by the first UN Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Geneva 1955; approved by the Economic and Social Council by resolution 663 C (XXIV) of 31 July 1957 and 2076 (LXII) of 13 May 1977).

Adopted by UN General Assembly resolution 43/173 of 9 December 1988

UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Adopted by General Assembly resolution 45/113 of 14 December 1990

Interim Report, Special Rapporteur of UN Human Rights Council (Doc A/66/150 August 2011)

Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2005

(2004).

UN High Commissioner on Human Rights review of human rights records of 192 UN Member States, published every four years and searchable by country.

Prison Reform International (last visited July 25, 2017)

International Centre for Prison Studies (2d ed. 2009)

Penal Reform International (2017)

Jessica Jacobson et al., Instititue for Criminal Policy Research (2017)

Aleks Kajstura, Prison Policy Initiative (2018).

Library of Congress, Global Legal Research Directorate Staff (July 2014)

Stefan Enggist et al., eds., World Health Organization, Regional Offices for Europe (2014)

(12th ed. 2018)