Bangkok Rules

Girl Power

On 8th March 2023, International Women’s Day, we decided to calculate just how much Girl Power we possess…

Founders: 50% female

Governors: Philippines 43% female, UK 40% female

Managers: 100% female

Staff: 67% female

Long-term volunteers: 75% female

Current short-term volunteers: 100% female

Previous short-term volunteers: 95% female

If you’d like to read what our ladies have got up to lately, we’re pleased and proud to introduce you to Healthy Bonds, our 2023 impact report.

Girl Dis-empower

And it’s a good job we are such a female-dominated organization, because the number of female prisoners across the world is increasing fast - up 20% since 2000!

How many women are behind bars right now, do you think…?

100,000?

250,000?

500,000??

No, it’s well in excess of 750,000! That’s an awful lot of female disempowerment.

Girl Re-empower

But there is one tool that is helping to shine a pink-ish tinged light into this feminine doom and gloom…

The so-called Bangkok Rules are the United Nations’ rules on the treatment of female detainees and non-detaineed offenders. If you haven’t read them, please do! And if you know someone who works with female detainees, shove a copy under their nose!

No, they don’t make the problem of female detention go away. But, where they are properly implemented, they make a significant difference to the re-empowerment of female detainees.

Dr Rachael Pickering is our chief medical officer
Her views do not necessarily represent those of Integritas Healthcare
8 March 2023

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves,
for the rights of all who are destitute.
Proverbs 31:8