Women in Prison: A Commentary on the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners

This commentary identifies a number of the key problems for women prisoners, based on QUNO's primary research - including what women prisoners have told us - and on secondary sources; highlights how the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, the key reference in management of prison systems, apply to these problems; identifies other human rights instruments and standards applicable to women's imprisonment; and examines what measures these human rights standards require. In addition, there is a section on women detained in armed conflict.