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on standards related to the protection of persons deprived of their liberty. This supports the
training delivered to some 65,000 staff in five training centres throughout the country. Since
2016, Turkey has also participated in the European Penitentiary Training Academies
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From 2015 to 2019, 764 prison staff underwent a four-month initial training course
with financial and technical support from OHCHR Cambodia. The training covered relevant
human rights standards on the protection of persons deprived of their liberty, including the
Mandela and Bangkok Rules. OHCHR also supported 20 core trainers to assess the impact
of the training course and receive feedback from former trainees and local prison
management, in order to feed into the ongoing review of training modules for prison staff.
OHCHR also supported and accompanied one-day visits to prisons for trainees and new
recruits to contextualize the training on site in prisons.
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The United Kingdom women’s policy framework contains gender-specific rules and
guidance for prison and probation staff on how to manage and support women in custody and
the community. Accompanying the framework is a guidance document on working with
women in custody and the community. The document contains practical advice on how staff
can deliver gender-responsive and trauma-informed practice in prison and community
settings, including advice on persons with specific needs, such as perinatal women. A new
training package entitled “Positive outcomes for women: enabling rehabilitation (POWER)”
has been devised to develop the skills and knowledge of staff working with women in
custodial and community settings. The package consists of 12 modules covering topics such
as court and pre-sentence reports, maintaining family ties, foreign nationals and sex workers,
enabling staff to respond to women in a gender-responsive and trauma-informed way.
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In 2018, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and Penal
Reform International produced a guidance document on the practical implementation of the
Mandela Rules. The guide supplements a previous short guide to the Mandela Rules issued
by Penal Reform International, in which the 122 Rules were summarized in an accessible
format, and a toolbox on the Bangkok Rules, jointly produced with the Thailand Institute of
Justice. The toolbox includes a guidance document, free e-course, a workbook for training,
specific thematic briefings and a guide for prison staff on the mental health of women in
prison.
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In cooperation with the Thailand Institute of Justice, UNODC has developed a toolkit
on gender-responsive non-custodial measures to support countries in their efforts to
strengthen the capacity of police, prosecutors and judges in applying gender-responsive noncustodial measures. UNODC also published an e-learning course on alternatives to
imprisonment for women offenders in 2016, which supports the UNODC handbook and
training curriculum on women and imprisonment.
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There is still broad scope for the use of non-custodial measures in terrorism cases,
including for women who are accused or convicted of terrorism offences, in line with the
Tokyo and Bangkok Rules. In support of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism
Strategy, UNODC and OHCHR organized a subregional training workshop on the gender
dimensions of criminal justice responses to terrorism in Cameroon in 2017. Participants from
Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria and the African Union, discussed the role of women both
as offenders and as victims, gender perspectives on the criminalization of terrorism-related
offences and alternatives to detention. Similarly, the OHCHR East Africa Regional Office
and UNODC conducted a joint project on strengthening the capacity of national Governments
to integrate gender dimensions into criminal justice responses on terrorism. In 2019, OHCHR
supported workshops for prosecutors, judges and law enforcement officials in Chad and
Nigeria and convened a dialogue with the African Union Commission on integrating gender
measures on security sector reform and preventing violent extremism. A UNODC publication
on the gender dimensions of terrorism and a training manual for law enforcement officials in
Nigeria was launched in 2019 with the support of OHCHR. A large component of the
workshops and the manual focuses on the treatment of female prisoners and the application
of the Mandela and Bangkok Rules.
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