Author(s):

Penal Reform International, Women Beyond Walls, and the Global
Campaign to Decriminalise Poverty and Status.

Published date:

01/03/2025

From Poverty to punishment: Examining laws and practices which criminalise women due to poverty or status worldwide exposes how laws and policies disproportionately criminalise women due to their socio-economic status and vulnerabilities. Published by Penal Reform International and Women Beyond Walls—both members of the Global Campaign to Decriminalise Poverty and Status—the report calls for urgent reforms to stop the criminalisation of women for poverty, survival strategies and gendered norms.