4 Gender and Security Toolkit The 70 rules give guidance to policy-makers, legislators, sentencing authorities and prison staff to help them to reduce the imprisonment of women and meet the specific needs of women if they are imprisoned. The rules cover admission procedures, healthcare, humane treatment, search procedures and treatment of children who accompany their mothers into prison.* Ê The UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners. The Standard Minimum Rules for Prisoners were first adopted in 1957, but, in recognition of the major developments in human rights and criminal justice, in 2015 they were revised and adopted as the Nelson Mandela Rules (hereinafter the Mandela Rules). The Mandela Rules are often regarded by states as the primary source of standards relating to treatment in detention, and are the key framework used by monitoring and inspection mechanisms in assessing the treatment of prisoners.^ Since the introduction of these international standards, states, institutions and civil society throughout the world have made efforts to interpret them and implement them in practice. This Tool reflects on some of this progress to date, and offers a further vision for the future. 1.3 Audiences for this Tool This Tool is designed to be used by all actors working in connection with people who have been deprived of their liberty. These include policy-makers, legislators, institutional managers, front-line staff, members of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and others. The main focus of the Tool is related to deprivation of liberty within criminal justice facilities, although much of the content presented here may also be relevant to the deprivation of liberty in other settings, such as administrative detention, military detention centres, immigration centres and refugee camps. 1.4 Outline of this Tool Section 2 sets out in more detail why integrating a gender perspective is important in places of deprivation of liberty. The section begins with key definitions related to the topic, and includes discussion of non-binary understandings of gender and the importance of understanding intersectionality. Finally, the section highlights how integrating a gender perspective can help places of deprivation of liberty to achieve their goals, as well as to have a positive effect beyond their own institutions. Section 3 provides a vision of what places of deprivation of liberty would look like if they successfully integrated a gender perspective into their policies and practices. Nine key features are illustrated. This section can be used to evoke and inspire change in places of deprivation of liberty. Section 4 offers some specific steps that can be taken to integrate a gender perspective effectively within places of deprivation of liberty. While no country has completely integrated a gender perspective across all aspects of places of deprivation of liberty, there are increasing examples of pockets of good practice from across the globe. Guidance is structured to promote action at three key stakeholder levels. 1) National/state-level policy-makers: those able to set and reform the policy agenda. 2) Institutional operations and leadership: those able to make direct reforms within places of deprivation of liberty. 3) Civil society: how partnership with this group is an important factor in achieving longterm, sustainable reform. * The full text of the Bangkok Rules is found in UN General Assembly (2010) “United Nations rules for the treatment of women prisoners and non-custodial measures for women offenders”, UN Doc. A/65/229, 21 December. ^ The full text of the Mandela Rules is found in UN General Assembly (2015) “United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners”, Vienna: UNODC. More general guidance on implementing the Mandela Rules is given in OSCE/ODIHR and PRI (2018) “Guidance document on the Nelson Mandela Rules: Implementing the United Nations Revised Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners”.