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Book Review:

Carceral Communities in Latin America: Troubling Prison Worlds in the 21st Century

Presentation

UNOPS | Global toolkit reviewer

Omar reviewed the update of UNOPS Technical Guidance for Prison Planning | April 2021

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Translations now available

Toolkit written on behalf of DCAF, OSCE and UN Women now available in:

• Arabic

• English

• French

• Georgian

• Spanish

Peer Reviewed Book Review

Omar reviewed Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti’s (2020) A Southern Criminology of Violence, Youth and Policing: Governing Insecurity in Urban Brazil in the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy.

Podcast launched

A new podcast launched focusing on the latest exciting projects happening in criminal justice all over the world. It brings together practitioners, front line staff, NGO workers, academics - basically all those people working passionately and compassionately in criminal justice systems.

New International Tool:

Places of Deprivation of Liberty and Gender

As part of a Gender & Security Toolkit Coordinated by ODIHR, DCAF and UN Women, Omar wrote the guidance document on places of deprivation of liberty and gender.

The tool sets out in more detail why it is important to integrate a gender perspective into policies and practices concerning places of deprivation of liberty, covering key definitions related to the topic, including a discussion on non-binary understanding of gender and the importance of understanding intersectionality

Second International congress on Conflict, Power and Justice in the Global South

The conference was hosted by the Catholic University of Colombia in Bogotá, Colombia on November 6th-9th 2019 and jointly organised by QUT Centre for Justice. It focused on criminological perspectives from the global south and aimed to contribute to the task of democratising and building a knowledge of the global South. Omar presented his paper titled:

Human Rights for Righteous Humans?

A decolonial examination of the utility of the application of normative human rights discourse to criminal justice contexts in Brazil.

VIII Oxbridge Conference on Brazilian Studies

Omar presented on his PhD thesis work related to multiple interpretations of human rights as related to justice contexts in Brazil. The annual conference was held at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Peer Reviewed Article

This paper evaluates a pioneering project to introduce a gender-sensitive approach to working with women completing probation and community service orders in Kenya. The intervention consisted of context-specific research with women throughout Kenya, leading to…

Roundtable Discussion on the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and Pretrial Detention

The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, Open Society Foundation and UNODC held a round table discussion in London to discuss Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16.3: Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all. Omar presented his previous work on reducing pre-trial detention in East Africa and took part in discussions related measuring progress against the current indicator and possible improvements to future measurement.

International Women's Day: Lecture on Sex in the system - are women set up to fail?

Omar gave a special lecture at the University of Westminster for International Women's Day on Sex in the System: Are women set up to fail in the justice system

Training facilitation: implementation of the United Nations Bangkok rules in kenya

Omar was invited to co-facilitate a three-day 'Training of Trainers' course on the UN Bangkok Rules in Kenya, alongside Kenya Prison service and Penal Reform International.

guest blog: Injustice documentary

ICPA Conference London 2017

Omar hosted the panel discussion on Global Prison Trends at the recent ICPA Conference 2017 on Innovation in Rehabilitation: Building Better Futures.

The main theme of the panel was related to the Penal Reform International Report on Global Prison Trends, which you can download here.

The Special Focus of this edition of the report addresses the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to Criminal Justice, which you can also download here.

Guest Blog: OLASS Jobs - Careers in Justice

Guest Blog: Centre for Crime & Justice Studies

Presenting: BSC Annual Conference

Omar was selected to present at the British Society of Criminology Annual Conference 2017. The topic was his evaluation of a gender-sensitive approach to probation in Kenya. You can find more information here. 

Guest Blog: Penal Reform International

UNODC 26th Session of the Commission on Crime Prevention & Criminal Justice

Omar attended the United Nations Office fro Drugs and Crime 26th Session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Vienna, to talk about a gender-sensitive approach to Probation and Community Service.

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