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By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 26 February 2019

Just One More Step: Ratifying International and Regional Protocols

As of 28 March 2022, 90 of the 173 States parties to the ICCPR have ratified or acceded to its Second Optional Protocol aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, most recently Kazakhstan (24 March 2022), Armenia (18 March 2021), Angola (2 October 2019) and the State of Palestine (18 March 2019).

19th World Day Against the Death Penalty – Women and the death penalty, an invisible reality

On 10 October 2021, the World Day will be dedicated to women who risk being sentenced to death, who have received a death sentence, who have been executed, and to those who have had their death sentences commuted, exonerated, or pardoned.