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🔴 HAPPENING NOW! #UNGA debate on the progress made in 10 years of the #MandelaRules - plus the major challenges that remain for the world's prisons.   Let's make 2025 a year of action on prison and penal reform.   Watch now: bit.ly/43G8xiL   #PrisonersMatter

With UNODC’s #UNPLUGGED, a school-based drug prevention & education initiative, ▶️ 1375 teachers trained ▶️ 425 schools delivered ▶️ 500,000 pupils completed UNPLUGGED courses, with improved social-behavioral changes. Prevention works! let’s #InvestInPrevention!

🔍 Women are overrepresented in prison for drug offences - but rarely hold leadership roles in trafficking. Data from #WorldDrugReport 2025 highlights the need for gender-sensitive alternatives to incarceration. #BangkokRules

⚖ A new era of justice in Gombe! Yesterday, UNODC🇳🇬 launched e-Case Management & Video-Conferencing for virtual hearings. This connects the prisons to the courts for speedy & fairer access to justice. 🙏 to Chief Justice Halima S. Mohammed & @stateINL for driving this change

10 years ago the revised Mandela Rules were adopted. Yet overcrowding, neglect and human rights violations remain a daily reality for many people in prison. This Friday is #MandelaDay. Join the call to make the rules a reality. #PrisonersMatter

What are the #MandelaRules❓ ▶️ These crucial UN standards provide the blueprint for safe, humane and effective #prison management. But in too many prisons they are not yet a reality. Join UN Office on Drugs & Crime on Friday's #MandelaDay 2025 to call for their universal practical application❗️

For every inmate, quality healthcare! UNODC🇳🇬 with support from US Dept of State INL & Germany in Nigeria, constructed a clinic 🏥 & gave medical supplies + a solar-powered fridge to Maiduguri Max of Nigerian Correctional Service Ministry of Interior #PrisonhealthIsPublichealth #PrisonersMatter #MandelaRules

Tomorrow is #MandelaDay! 🌍Around the world people are gearing up for events to mark ten years of the #MandelaRules and spread the word that #PrisonersMatter. What are your plans for the day?

What a powerful & encouraging message 💪 from #Ghana 🇬🇭 to start tomorrow's celebrations of #MandelaDay, the 10th anniversary of the Nelson #MandelaRules and our core message that #PrisonersMatter!

He spent 27 years behind bars & emerged with a message of dignity, justice & hope. 🕊️On #MandelaDay we honor Mandela’s legacy & call for the practical application of the #MandelaRules #PrisonersMatter & how we treat them can impact our safety, livelihoods, food & security.

🔟 years of the Nelson Mandela Rules 1️⃣5️⃣ years of the Bangkok Rules This #MandelaDay, explore 10 powerful stories from prisons around the world, showing how reform can change lives. 📖 Read them now: unodc.org/unodc/frontpag…

Honouring Nelson Mandela’s legacy in prison reform! UNODC Southern Africa is proud to support the comememoration and the establishment of the Nelson Mandela Rules Training Academy 🇿🇦 promoting humane, rights-based treatment of persons deprived of liberty in South Africa #PrisonersMatter

In custody, humanity isn’t forgotten. For #MandelaDay, UNODC🇳🇬 held a photo exhibition showcasing powerful images of transformation - from rehabilitation programs to skills training - all aimed at supporting Nigerian Correctional Service in bringing dignity & hope behind bars. #PrisonersMatter

NCoS joined global stakeholders at UNODC Nigeria Mandela Rules at 10 event in Abuja, reaffirming commitment to humane corrections and inmate rights. CG Nwakuche praised ongoing reforms. Read more: tinyurl.com/MandelaRules-1… #MandelaRules #Corrections #NCoS #UNODC

NCoS hosts Ghana Prison Service delegation led by Dir. Yahaya Ishaq for a UNODC-backed seminar on “Strategic Leadership Dialogue,” fostering regional collaboration and advancing correctional best practices in West Africa. UNODC Nigeria For more: tinyurl.com/NCoS-Ghana-Pri…

More than 3.7 million people are held in pre-trial detention globally. For many, access to justice is slow, unequal or out of reach, especially without legal aid or due process. 📘 ow.ly/r2Tj50Wsy0q #PrisonersMatter

#Prison overcrowding has remained a global & unacceptable tragedy for too long! ❌ Incarceration cannot be our default response to crime ❌ We cannot "build“ our way out of this situation UN Office on Drugs & Crime & ICRC have identified sustainable reform strategies: ➡️ bit.ly/45dhzDh

When corruption thrives in policing, trust breaks down, communities suffer & investors walk away. This is why tackling police corruption can’t be a side effort - it needs real support, investment & reform. UNODC🇳🇬 is driving innovation with data, tools & capacity-building.

Drug use in Africa could rise by 40% by 2030 & Nigeria’s growing population raises deeper concern. What does the data say about Nigeria🇳🇬 ? UNODC & CRISA are training zonal coords for the 2nd National Drug Use Survey - a crucial step to drive smarter, evidence-based responses.

Bakari spent 🔟years in prison awaiting trial for an alleged crime. While in prison, he acquired skills in carpentry with the materials & support UNODC🇳🇬 & US Dept of State INL provided. Bakari was acquitted & is now a free man. The skill puts food on his table & he empowers others!