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. 2024 Feb 15;69:102496. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102496

Table 2.

Target population and policies.

Target Policy focus Cited convention, policy, legislation, instrument OECD non-OECD
Child Children in corrections facilities25,35,40,46,51,56,57,60,61
  • -

    Bangkok Rules'

  • -The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Act No 108 of 1996 Constitution of the Republic of South Africa [CRSA], 1996)

  • -Correctional Services Amendment Act No 25 of 2008 (CSA, 2008).

  • -United Nations General Assembly, 1989 (UN)

  • -Zambian Constitution of 2005–section 20 of the Correctional Services Act 111 of 1998

  • -Finnish legislation

4 5
Best interest principle of the child46,51,56,57,60,61
  • -Standard Guidelines for Corrections in Australia

  • -United Nations Rules for the treatment of women prisoners and offenders (the ‘Bangkok Rules’)

  • -Australia's federal Family Law Act 1975 Correctional Services Act on 1 October 2008

  • -United Nations' convention on the rights of the child (UNCRC)

  • -Finnish legislation

  • -Child Welfare Act

4 2
Rights of the child25,35,46,51,57
  • -UNCRC

2 3
Access to health services35
  • -National legislation–associated with new international legislation (UN, 2010)

  • -Performance of women's social movements (BRASIL, 2008)

1
Mother and child Pregnancy and birthing25,32,38
  • -UNCRC

  • -Shackling policies

  • -Women's Prison Association (n.d.):

  • -American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (ACOG)

  • -American College of Nurse Midwives

  • -American Public Health Association

  • -American Medical Association (AMA)

1 2
Breastfeeding26,31,39,47,60
  • -World Health Organisation

  • -American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP)

  • -Australian Birth Charter

1 4
Newborns32,44,47,62
  • -Law No. 11.942/0931

  • -Law nº 11.942/2009, which amended the Penal Execution Law of 198432

4
Fundamental human rights26,40,48
  • -Constitution of the Republic of Mozambique

  • -European Convention on Human Rights

  • -The Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (1995)

1 2
Alternatives to incarceration32,39,45,46,60
  • -Law nº 13,257 in 2016, named as “Marco Legal da Primeira Infância”

  • -Bangkok rules

  • -Penal Code on fertility and motherhood, stipulated in section 27

  • -African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, 1999. Article 30 of this Charter deals with children of imprisoned mothers

  • -United Nations (2008)

  • -Guidelines of the National Law 26,472 of Home Prison for Pregnant Women and Mothers.

1 4
Mother and child separation policies25,27,57
  • -UNCRC Article 9

2 1
Policies supporting M&Cs31,46,54
  • -Law No. 11.942/09

  • -Section 20 of the Correctional Services Act 111 of 1998 of South Africa

  • -HM Prison Service, 2008

1 2
Right to health31,32,35,39
  • -Sustainable development goals (SDG 3, 5 and 16),

  • -Nelson Mandela Rules

  • -Bangkok Rules

  • -(A/RES/70/175),

  • -United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (A/RES/65/229).

4
Women with children Gender-responsiveness35,55,57
  • -National legislation–associated with new international legislation (UN, 2010)

  • -Performance of women's social movements (BRASIL, 2008)

  • -New South Wales ‘Women's Action Plan’

2 1
Access to health services31,32
  • -Bangkok Rules

2
Right to express your religion, culture or spiritual preference48
  • -United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 1982

1
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) related healthcare and prevention39,47
  • -Southern African Development Community (SADC) Minimum Standards for HIV in Prisons

  • -Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ), adopted a resolution (UNODC, 2019)

2

Note: OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

[Table 2 reports all conventions, policies, legislation or legal instruments cited in included publications as relevant to the to M&Cs described in those publications and which indicate to what extent these M&Cs potentially align with a human rights-based approach].