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Open Call for proposals – Financial Support to Third Parties – Global Consortium for Death Penalty Abolition
on 1 October 2026
In early 2024, 13 abolitionist organizations, including regional networks, grassroots organizations and international NGOs have come together to form the Global Consortium for Death Penalty Abolition. Co-funded by the European Union under a Financial Framework Partnership Agreement (FFPA) and led by the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, this civil society-led initiative aims to amplify […]
2026
Article(s)
The Advocates for Human Rights launches “Champions of Death Penalty Abolition” scorecard for 2025
By The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 7 May 2026
At a side event on the margins of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 9, The Advocates for Human Rights launched a new tool celebrating countries that have championed the cause of abolition of the death penalty at the Universal Periodic Review. The scorecard highlights the countries that led the world in making […]
2026
Trend Towards Abolition

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Open Call for proposals – Financial Support to Third Parties – Global Consortium for Death Penalty Abolition
on 1 April 2026
In early 2024, 13 abolitionist organizations, including regional networks, grassroots organizations and international NGOs have come together to form the Global Consortium for Death Penalty Abolition. Co-funded by the European Union under a Financial Framework Partnership Agreement (FFPA) and led by the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, this civil society-led initiative aims to amplify […]
2026
Document(s)
Open Call for proposals – Financial Support to Third Parties – Global Consortium for Death Penalty Abolition – Application Form
By The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 30 March 2026
2026
World Coalition
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- Document type World Coalition
- Available languages Appel à propositions - Soutien financier à des tiers - Consortium mondial pour l'abolition de la peine de mort - Formulaire
Document(s)
Open Call for proposals – Financial Support to Third Parties – Global Consortium for Death Penalty Abolition – Annexe Budget
By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 30 March 2026
World Coalition
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- Document type World Coalition
- Available languages Appel à propositions - Soutien financier à des tiers - Consortium mondial pour l'abolition de la peine de mort - Annexe budget
Document(s)
Death Penalty in India – Annual statistics report 2025 & 10 Years of Death Penalty Data (2016-2025)
By The Square Circle Clinic, NALSAR University of Law, on 6 February 2026
2026
NGO report
Clemency
Death Row Conditions
Fair Trial
India
More details See the document
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list India
- Themes list Clemency / Death Row Conditions / Fair Trial
Article(s)
“Frightening” increase of executions in Iran
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 20 June 2024
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) reports that at least 243 people, including 10 women, have been executed in 2024, as of 15 June. In 2023, the number of people executed has increased from 582 to 834. At least 471 people were executed for drug-related offenses. This represent a 84% increase compared to 2022 (256).
2024
Drug Offenses
Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Article(s)
Progress and impediments on path to abolition in U.S.
By Russ Feingold & Christopher Wright Durocher, on 3 April 2024
When President Biden won the 2020 election, he became the first successful U.S. presidential candidate to publicly oppose the death penalty.
2024
United States

21st World Day Against the Death Penalty – The death penalty: An irreversible torture
on 12 June 2023
2023
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Death Row Conditions
Document(s)
Government Misconduct and Convicting the Innocent, The Role of Prosecutors, Police and Other Law Enforcement
By Samuel R. Gross, Maurice J. Possley, Kaitlin Jackson Roll, Klara Huber Stephens , on 20 July 2022
2022
Academic report
Innocence
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This is a report about the role of official misconduct in the conviction of innocent people. We
discuss cases that are listed in the National Registry of Exonerations, an ongoing online archive
that includes all known exonerations in the United States since 1989, 2,663 as of this writing.
This Report describes official misconduct in the first 2,400 exonerations in the Registry, those
posted by February 27, 2019
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Innocence

