Jo Baker

Jo Baker is an independent researcher and writer, with a focus on social exclusion, conflict and gender; her legal study on discrimination and truth-telling in Sri Lanka features in Decemberâ€™s issu

Women in prison: the particular impact of prison conditions

On life in prison generally, the most common complaints across five countries were about hygiene and space.

By Jo Baker

/ 10 Oct 2014

Dynamic security: political change bad news for the women in Albania’s prisons

Albania has been leading the Balkan region in its management of women prisoners – a complex group to detain and rehabilitate. Now, as a new government is sworn in and politically motivated staff changes look likely, this progress – and the wellbeing of its female inmates – is at risk.

By Jo Baker

/ 11 Oct 2013

Seen and not heard: women in Sri Lanka's reconciliation commission

Sri Lanka's Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission has no mention of gender in its mandate and no dedicated expertise related to women; it has just one female commissioner out of eight. For Tamil women, the LLRC simply reaffirms bad old habits.

By Jo Baker

/ 24 Nov 2011