APAP organized and held a half-day consultative workshop on inmates’ rehabilitation and reintegration at the Global Hotel on November 21, 2009. Participants in the workshop were drawn from various federal and regional law-enforcement offices, prisons, human-rights institutions, civil societies, professional associations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

The workshop was aimed at discussing the findings of a research done on prisoners’ rights and related subjects—a research conceived and sponsored by the Norwegian Church Aid. The objective of the research was finding out the status of the rights of the inmates that are incarcerated in the various prisons of the country and assessing the efforts made by the concerned authorities and prison administrators to rehabilitate and reintegrate them once they are freed having served time in the prisons.

It is hoped that the findings will eventually enhance the efforts exerted toward filling certain gaps in improving the rehabilitation and reintegration schemes of inmates in these prisons, based on the enactment of a pertinent piece of legislation.

A summary of the findings was published and distributed in two languages: Amharic and English.