Nelson Mandela Rules
The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners were adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 17 December 2015 after a five-year revision process. They are known as the Mandela Rules in honor of the former South African President, Nelson Mandela. The Mandela Rules are composed of 122 "rules". Not all are rules, but some are principles such as institutional equality and the philosophy of confinement. Background The rules were first adopted on 30 August 1955 during a UN United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, held at Geneva, and approved by the United Nations Economic and Social Council, Economic and Social Council in resolutions of 31 July 1957 and 13 May 1977. Since their adoption by the Economic and Social Council in 1957, the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (SMR) have served as the universally acknowledged m ...
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