Seventy per cent of Thailand’s prisoners are incarcerated on drug charges, according to the prison wardens, and their ...

New Nelson Mandela Rules Academy signals shift toward humanised corrections Exactly 36 years after President Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and into the pages of history, President Cyril ...

The United Nations have launched the Revised Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, dubbed the ‘Nelson Mandela Rules,’ which Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed as “a great step ...

Last week I was in Vienna, representing the ACLU at the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. Meetings of the Crime Commission, as it's informally known, are sometimes ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday marked 36 years since Nelson Mandela’s release from prison by launching a new training academy at the Drakenstein Correctional Facility, where the former ...

The Nelson Mandela Rules state that, “Whenever a prisoner is removed outside the prison for an authorized purpose, he or she shall be allowed to wear his or her own clothing or other inconspicuous ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke to EWN in the kitchen of Nelson Mandela’s prison house on the premises of the Drakenstein Correctional Centre. Cyril Ramaphosa Nelson Mandela Rules Training Academy ...

Excellences, Deputy Secretary-General Mr. Jan Eliasson; UN Messenger of Peace Mr. Steve Wonder, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, I wish to warmly welcome you to this informal meeting of the ...

Exactly 36 years after President Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and into the pages of history, President Cyril Ramaphosa returned to the very grounds where that decisive moment unfolded, ...