Archive: May 2020

Marie Claire Van Hout and Elie Aaraj It is imperative that governments and prison authorities in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region accept the presence of sexual and drug related virus transmission in prisons and use evidence-based…

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 187 – 198 PDF Altaf Saadi, Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young, Caitlin Patler, Jeremias Leonel Estrada, and Homer Venters Abstract A crisis of mass immigration detention exists in the United States, which is home…

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 293 – 204 PDF Elise Baker, Eric Stover, Rohini Haar, Andrea Lampros, and Alexa Koenig Abstract Human rights investigators often review graphic imagery of potential war crimes and human rights abuses while…

Dainius Pūras I have no doubt that around the world we will soon be facing an increase in mental health issues in the wake COVID-19. The impact of the pandemic, and the measures taken to contain it, may well be long lasting on our mental well-being,…

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 279 – 292 PDF Sándor Gurbai Abstract According to a longstanding definition of non-discrimination, differential treatment does not constitute discrimination if the purpose or effect of the differential…

Marie Claire Van Hout On March 25th 2020, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urged States to relieve prison congestion and reduce the prison/detainee population.[1] Accordingly,. assessing alternatives to imprisonment and implementing…