Topic: 2025 – Treatment of Prisoners
Country: Russian Federation
Delegate Name: Yutika, Mishra
Committee: ECOSOC(HRC)
Topic: Treatment of Prisoners
Country: Russian Federation
School:Forest Hills Central High School
Delegate:Yutika Mishra
Approximately 11.5 million people are incarcerated around the world combined. With such a large number of people, it introduces the issues that come with it, such as overcrowding, unsafe protocols, and the basic necessities and healthcare provided for those incarcerated.with the UN-CTS finding that over 60% of surveyed nations reported operating at full capacity or beyond–and that nearly 25% reported they were at over 150% capacity. This highlights the issues that come with imprisonment, and the obstacles in the way of providing ideal and safe conditions for inmates.Prison rules and procedures are an important discussion and ongoing debate among the Countries of the UN. Conditions in prisons for each country/member of the United Nations varies from country to country. We acknowledge the partnering with certain organizations in order to increase the safety of prisons, such as The Federal Penitentiary Service. Each country has a specific code of conduct that they follow in relation to prisoners, but the UN in general has a set of standards that every member must adhere to. This code of conduct is strictly put in place to keep the dignity, security, and common rights of prisoners, even after they are captured or placed in prison.
The Russian Federation recognizes the idea that maintaining the conditions and treatment of prisoners worldwide is important. It recognizes that a maintaining of international set standards are important, and has taken steps to improve its prison facilities, such as expanding medical services, and introducing and expanding the use of Public Monitoring Commissions. Currently, over 467,000 individuals are incarcerated in Russia’s Prisons alone. However, Russia also believes that country actions should be greatly left to individual governments instead of the UN. We believe that the individual sovereignty of each nation stands as important as collaboration, due to diverging priorities. We highly prioritize national security, and our military spending exceeded $100bn in 2023. We also make matters of youth education and health developments our highest priority. The Russian Criminal Code and the Penal Enforcement Code of the Russian Federation is our list of rules and standards that we hold ourselves to. We have been going by these codes for years now.
Solutions that the Russian federation poses for the United Nations to agree with are as follows; though the Russian federation acknowledges the need and use of national standards, they also request and encourage states to have a right to choose punishments and amount of federal budget that goes into reforming prison care as seen fit that fall into each country’s own cultural societal standards. We request privacy of governmental actions in relation to funding and reformation of prisons and other actions. The Delegation of the Russian Federation thanks you for your time, and hope to make compromises with their allies to resolve this ongoing issue.
