Prisoners’ rights are #HumanRights 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Our communities are stronger when all of us are treated with dignity. Join UNODC’s call for prisons worldwide to be safe, rehabilitative and to respect prisoners’ rights. #PrisonersMatter

“It was through the programme that I realized I was sick.” - Mr. Sowah, an ex-prisoner from Ghana who has been sober for six years, shares his journey of overcoming his drug use disorder. Learn how the Ghana Prisons Service, with UNODC’s support, is offering hope in prisons:

Also doing our part in @UNODC_Justice to enhance visibility, strategic communication and messaging on #UNODC's work in the field of #prison & penal reform and on why #prisonersmatter. A big 🙏 to @mhmlawson! Check it our here 🔽

This is one of the saddest developments in the care system in living memory. Should a child born on/after 7th November 2007 need to go into care this evening, they can legally be deprived of any “care” at all. And placed in bedsits/caravans instead. Such senseless cruelty.

To end this Sunday morning thread, I’ll emphasise the most important thing: it is a LIE that there is “no money left” to make this happen. The money is just in the hands of people who would watch the world burn. The rest of us have SO MUCH to gain from freer, safer migration.

🚨New research 🚨 Children and families seeking asylum face dire conditions with serious impacts on their right to housing, health, education, and food – our new joint report with @hrw A thread 🧵1/11 https://t.co/F6lBqH02VY

Yesterday marked #MandelaDay. @UNODC and others around the world shared an important message: #PrisonersMatter 🔓 It’s been a privilege to work with @ph_meissner and the whole prison and penal reform team on this campaign. Now to keep the momentum going!

Prisoners are part of our communities, and what happens in prisons impacts all of us: #PrisonersMatter #MandelaDay

Prisoners are part of our communities and will in almost all cases be released back to us. 🌎Safe, rights-respecting and rehabilitative prisons benefit all of us. #PrisonersMatter - on Tuesday’s #MandelaDay and every day. https://t.co/xWOZRmhr7a

📢 Nelson #MandelaDay is approaching, which we celebrate on 1️⃣8️⃣ July! In @UNODC 🇺🇳 we will launch an awareness-raising campaign on why #PrisonersMatter to mark this day and to promote the #MandelaRules for the Treatment of #Prisoners. ❗️Join us❗️▶️ https://t.co/L5aGGHMJfU

Over the last year, BBC guidelines have changed. Where previously they referred to asylum seekers, maybe “asylum seekers making irregular journeys” maybe a mix of asylum seekers & “economic migrants” The exact same people are called “illegal migrants” by all presenters now.

As #CCPCJ32 is wrapping up, it is also high time to say THANK YOU 🙏🏼to the #prison & penal reform team in @UNODC Vienna & our many Field Offices. What a pleasure to meet & exchange w/h many of you during this intense week and to reinforce our joint committment! #StrongerTogether

Violence? Suicide? Natural causes? Neglect? Diseases? #Drug use? "Other causes"? @PRI presents findings of its study on #deaths in #prisons & on-going work to develop guidance on related investigations. Consistent, disaggregated #data & reporting mechanismsm needed! #CCPCJ32

In challenging times, prisoners are often forgotten. The Group of Friends of the #MandelaRules met at #CCPCJ32 to call on Member States to remember this vulnerable group of people. Doing so benefits communities on both sides of the bars.🔓 Find out more: https://t.co/oq5XRMCHxz

1 in 5 people now report eating less or skipping meals including: - 43 per cent of those on benefits - 37 per cent amongst larger families - 30 per cent of black adults This isn't what Britain in 2023 should look like https://t.co/9Lb27CzD0Q

📢 #SaveTheDate! Join the meeting of the Group of Friends of the Nelson #MandelaRules during next week's @CCPCJ for a discussion on the treatment of #prisoners in challenging times. Join us in person or online 🖥️ https://t.co/y3jBdy1N5P #CCPCJ32

“Changes exempt landlords from regulations governing everything from electrical safety to minimum room sizes” Not even pretending. Openly handing asylum seekers to exploitative slum lords. Tories: driving down standards for the most vulnerable #r4today

#RainbowEurope 2023 is out today. 🇬🇧 The UK's fall from grace continues: from 1st place in 2014 to 17th place in 2023, about to fall into the yellow zone alongside most of Central Europe including Hungary. Sobering reading at https://t.co/NkNbeJ7uyy.

Today, the government’s “stop the boats” #RefugeeBanBill debated in the Lords The Bill means when people come to us asking for help, we will no longer assess whether they are refugees or not- We’ll simply lock all of them up, regardless Only traffickers will welcome it #r4today