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CSPRI paper uncovers de facto impunity for torture and other human rights violations by South African law enforcers
Recent high-profile incidents have drawn attention to the manner in which the police and the prison service conduct themselves.
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SA’s failures in the international human-rights system
Lukas Muntingh's discussion of South Africa's failures in the in the internation human rights system was published on Thought Leader, a leading online opinion ...
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Are civil damages appropriate redress for torture or do they encourage impunity?
Gwenaelle Dereymaeker presented a paper entitled "When civil damages replace prosecutions for violence committed by law enforcement officials: effective ...
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Longer remand detention and fewer convictions
Jean Redpath presented a paper on remand detention trends in South Africa at the Fifth International Conference: National and International Perspectives on ...
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Unjust allocation of police human resources highlighted
Jean Redpath gave evidence at the Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of Police Inefficiency and a Breakdown in Relations between the South ...
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Testimony in St.Alban's prison torture case
Lukas Muntingh has testified on the position of St. Alban's prison within the South African Department of Correctional Services in the civil lawsuit brought by ...
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UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners debated in Cape Town
The Government of South Africa is hosting the fourth expert group meeting for the revision of these rules from 2-5 March 2015. Lukas Muntingh of CSPRI is ...
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CSPRI conducts training on qualitative and quantitative research
On 10 and 11 June 2015 CSPRI trained students and staff at the Universidade Edouardo Mondlane (UEM) in Maputo.
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CSPRI works with LRF and RODI-KENYA on pre-trial audit
In June and July 2015 CSPRI worked with the Legal Resources Foundation (LRF) - Kenya, and Resource Oriented Development Initiative (RODI) toward commencing ...
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CSPRI releases fact sheet on segregation and solitary confinement in South African and International law
This fact sheet was prompted by media reports in July 2015 of prisoners being held in effective solitary confinement at Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Centre in ...
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