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    Prison Reform Trust

    The Prison Reform Trust is an independent charity that seeks to:
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    Doing time: the experiences and needs of older people in prison

    Prison Reform Trust, 2009
    Prison staff working with older prisoners require specialist training and support, as the needs of older people can be hard to detect. The increase in numbers of people needing significant health and social care input has created huge challenges for prison, probation, health and social service staff. Despite improvements in this area and pockets of good practice, these needs remain largely unmet.
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    From perversion to pathology: discourses and practices of gender policing in the Islamic Republic of Iran

    Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, 2009
    The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) punishes homosexuality with death but acknowledges transsexuality, and partially funds sex change operations. This article examines how this seemingly progressive stance on transsexuality is connected to Iran's larger, and the authors argue, oppressive apparatus of gender.
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    Mauritania: torture at the heart of the state

    Amnesty International, 2008
    The report details the systematic use of torture by the security forces in Mauritania using interviews from prisoners and detainees in the prisons of Dar Naïm in Nouakchott (the capital) and Nouadhibou (in the north-west of the country). The report finds that:
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    Far from justice: Syria's supreme state security court

    Human Rights Watch, 2009
    This report examines the activities of the Supreme State Security Court (SSSC) in Syria set up during the state of emergency in 1963.
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    Pakistan: a long march for democracy and the rule of law

    International Federation for Human Rights, 2009
    This report addresses the situation of human rights in Pakistan during 2007 and the first half of 2008. It discusses violations of the principles of the rule of law and human rights violations committed by the state during the period covered.
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    Human rights corporate accountability guide: from law to norms to values

    Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative [Harvard University], 2008
    Ensuring a robust corporate culture that supports and respects human rights is critical to preventing business-related human rights abuses. This paper presents an accountability guide showing how a company can align its behavior with human rights goals imposed on it externally or arising from its internal commitments.
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    AGE: the European Older People’s Platform

    AGE, the European Older People’s Platform, aims to voice and promote the interests of older people in the European Union and to raise awareness of the issues that concern them most.
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    Indicators for human rights based Approaches to development in UNDP programming: a users’ guide

    UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2006
    This document is a practical guide on indicators for human rights based approaches to development programmes, for UNDP country offices.
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    The death penalty in Botswana: hasty and secretive hangings

    International Federation for Human Rights, 2007
    Following an alert from the Botswana Centre for Human Rights (DITSHWANELO) regarding the secrecy surrounding the executions of death row prisoners, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) sent an international fact finding mission to Botswana in 2006.

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