Ms. Nardos Bekele-Thomas' message on Mandela Day highlighting the importance of the #NelsonMandelaRules

In 2015, the UN General Assembly extended the scope of #NelsonMandela Day to promote humane conditions of imprisonment, raise awareness about the need to ensure prisoners remain part of society, and to value the work of prison staff as a social service of particular importance. Through it resolution A/RES/70/175 the Assembly not only adopted the revised UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, but also approved that they should be known as the "Nelson Mandela Rules" to honour the legacy of the late President of South Africa, who spent 27 years in prison in the course of his struggle. #ACT4MandelaRules #MandelaDay