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Rule 1. All prisoners shall be treated with the respect due to their inherent dignity and value as human beings. No prisoner shall be subjected to, and all prisoners shall be protected from, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, for which no circumstances whatsoever may be invoked as a justification.
Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners. Adopted by the First United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, held at Geneva in 1955, and approved by the Economic and Social Council by its resolutions 663 C (XXIV) of 31 July 1957 and 2076 (LXII) of 13 May 1977. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS .
The Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (SMRs)1 constitute the universally acknowledged minimum standards for the management of prison facilities and the treatment of prisoners, and have been of tremendous value and influence in the development of prison laws, policies and practices in Member States all over the world. In
pe. Part I RULES OF GENERAL APPLICATION Basic principles. l prisoners shall be treated with the respect due to their inherent dignity and value as human beings. No prisoner shall be subjected to, and all prisoners shall be protected from, torture and cruel, inhuman o.
The four components are designed to complement each other and, taken together, provide all necessary elements for the conduct of human rights training programmes for prison officials, under the training approach developed by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
This Guidance Document on the European Prison Rules (EPR) is co-published by Penal Reform International (PRI) and the Council of Europe, within the joint European Union/Council of Europe project ‘SPACE Reports and EU Network of prison monitoring bodies (the European NPM Forum)’.
8 sty 2016 · "Annex: United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules)": p. 7-33. Issued in GAOR, 70th sess., Suppl. no. 49.
