#15YearsOfBangkokRules - Admission is a moment of vulnerability. Women entering prison must get support: family contact, legal advice, clear info, and child care arrangements where needed. Dignity from the start.

#GenderEquality #Incarceration

In @msmagazine.com, Women Beyond Walls' @sabrinamahtani.bsky.social explains why #poverty & outdated laws are fuelling women’s #incarceration.

📖 Read: msmagazine.com/2025/04/10/w...

➕📖 Our Report w. @penalreformint.bsky.social: experiences.cleverstory.io/womens-beyon...

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Our new report w. Penal Reform Int, 'From Poverty to Punishment', explores how poverty is not just a pathway into the criminal legal system for women—but also a barrier to accessing #justice once caught up in it.

📖Read the report here: lnkd.in/eizGSVcp

#15YearsOfBangkokRules, #DecriminalisePoverty

Our new report, 'From Poverty to Punishment', exposes how legal systems across the world punish women for simply trying to survive.

Criminalisation is no solution to poverty.

📖 Read the report here: experiences.cleverstory.io/womens-beyon...

#15YearsOfBangkokRules #Incarceration #JusticeForAll

“Learning the law was there to liberate us”—Jhody Polk, Jailhouse Lawyers Initiative, shares her personal experience with imprisonment.

Learn more about her story: medium.com/sdg16plus/th...

🎥 Stay tuned for more updates.

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“For 15 years, the Bangkok Rules have set the global standard for how women should be treated”—Ambassador H.E. Mr. Cherdchai Chaivaivid, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Thailand 🇹🇭 to the United Nations.

🎥 Stay tuned for more updates.

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Fernando Marani, Program Director, Justice, Inclusion, and Equality, @sdg16.plus, gives welcome remarks for the #CSW69 event, citing that the intersection of criminalization, gender, and poverty disportionately affect women.

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🚨 NEW REPORT: From Poverty to Punishment 🚨

Women are disproportionately imprisoned due to poverty, vulnerability & discriminatory laws.

📖 Read the report now, be part of the call to end the criminalisation of poverty.
🔗 www.womenbeyondwalls.org/povertytopunishment

#15YearsOfBangkokRules

"So many women are in prison for drugs. So [we should think about them] within our advocacy for decriminalisation.” - Gloria Lai, Regional Director, Asia, @idpc.bsky.social

🔗 Learn more and watch now: lnkd.in/e-6E7cad

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@awidwomensrights.bsky.social

We’re excited to be launching our report with Penal Reform International - From Poverty to Punishment – on Monday!

📺 You can watch the event that will be broadcast on UN WebTV: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1c...

#CSW69 #15YearsOfBangkokRules #PovertyToPunishment

📢 Launching 17 March at #CSW69: A new report by Penal Reform International & Women Beyond Walls on how biased laws criminalise women for poverty & status.

Read more in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

#15YearsOfBangkokRules #DecriminalisePoverty #CSW69 #FromPovertyToPunishment

🌟 Sponsored by the Mission of the Kingdom of Thailand 🇹🇭, the Mission of Colombia 🇨🇴 to the UN, & UN OHCHR.
🌟 Co-organized by the Thailand Institute for Justice, Penal Reform International, @women-beyond-walls.bsky.social, & @sdg16.plus.

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🎉 Our #CSW69 Guide is out now! 🎉

🔗 womenbeyondwalls.substack.com/p/commission...

For all who want to end the global over-criminalisation and mass-incarceration of women & girls (and all who might just want to learn more) – this is for you!

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