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The Status Quo of China’s Death Penalty and the Civil Society Abolitionist Movement
By China Against the Death Penalty, on 15 February 2022
…Against the Death Penalty has been committed to promoting the concept of abolition of the death penalty in China, providing legal aid to those facing the death penalty, organizing death…
2022
China
Legal Representation

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Abolition of the death penalty at the United Nations Human Rights Council 54th session
on 30 August 2024
…death penalty. They called for the government to adopt a de jure moratorium on the use f the death penalty and the commuting of all death sentences.Watch the intervention here. …
2024
Trend Towards Abolition

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Recapping and video recordings of the side events of the 2021 General Assembly
By Elise Garel, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 27 September 2021
…African Coalition Against the Death Penalty) – to discuss the death penalty in Africa. The speakers began by presenting recent developments related to the death penalty in their countries. For…
2021
Juveniles
Legal Representation
Women

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International Symposium on the Right to Life in Taiwan
By Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP), on 12 January 2024
…blog post was first published by Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP), 20 November 2023, translated into English by The Death Penalty Project on 14 December and edited…
2024
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Death Row Conditions
India
Taiwan

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Malaysia and the Politics Behind the Death Penalty: A Tumultuous Relationship.
By Michelle Chew, on 24 October 2022
…the injustices of the death penalty and pressing Parliamentarians for change. Being one of the few countries around the world to still retain the use of the death penalty in…
2022
Malaysia
Trend Towards Abolition

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Second Optional Protocol: Frequently Asked Questions
By Pierre Desert, on 27 June 2008
…and provides a key tool for securing abolition of the death penalty worldwide: once a State ratifies the Protocol, there is no going back, the death penalty is irrevocably abolished…
2008

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Reinforcing the Link Between Torture and the Death Penalty: 21st World Day Against the Death Penalty
By Venus Aves, on 17 November 2023
…international consensus that the death penalty amounts to torture or other cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment (CIDT). With the theme, “Death Penalty: An Irreversible Torture,” World Day 2023 aimed to…
2023
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
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What is the Risk that the Death Penalty Will Return in Your Country?
on 20 August 2021
…the Philippines is a strong advocate of the death penalty. He has pledged, since his election, to reinstate the death penalty. Duterte advocates for the death penalty, claiming that killing…
2021

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Abolition of the death penalty at the United Nations Human Rights Council 56th session
on 30 August 2024
…the death penalty On the occasion of this 56th session, several members of the World Coalition against the Death Penalty presented oral statements on the death penalty. During the adoption…
2024
Trend Towards Abolition

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No reason to delay commencement of DDAA 2017
By Charles Hector - Ngeow Chow Ying, on 4 April 2018
10 SENTENCED TO DEATH BECAUSE DELAY OF COMING INTO FORCE LAW THAT ABOLISHES MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING Abolish Death Penalty We, the 44 undersigned organisations, groups and trade…
2018
Malaysia

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UN High Level Panel on the Death Penalty and Deterrence
By Grace O'Connor, on 25 February 2021
…death penalty to fight terrorism. Commissioner of the International Commission against the Death Penalty, Tsakhia Elbegdorj outlined the 3 lessons in his experience of abolishing the death penalty in Mongolia…
2021
Public Opinion

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Follow-up to the initiative on the conditions of detention and treatment of death row prisoners
By Nordine Drici (Planète Réfugiés) & Sandrine Ageorges-Skinner (ECPM), on 10 June 2019
…made between: About the conditions of detention and treatment of accused persons facing the death penalty : persons awaiting trial and facing the death penalty may suffer, in many contexts,…
2019

Making gender discrimination in capital punishment visible
on 6 March 2023
Understanding the link between gender discrimination and the death penalty – Women and the death penalty – Gender and sexual minorities and the death penalty Gender and the Death Penalty…
2023
Gender
Women

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Abolition of the death penalty at the United Nations Human Rights Council 52nd session
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 22 May 2023
…penalty cases during the High Level panel on the question of the death penalty. A side event on the death penalty in Saudi Arabia was co-hosted by Reprieve and the…
2023
Trend Towards Abolition

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Women Sentenced to Death Showcased on the 19th World Day Against the Death Penalty
By Elise Garel, on 3 December 2021
With the theme “Women sentenced death: an invisible reality”, the 19th World Day Against the Death Penalty aimed to highlight the issues faced by women who are sentenced to death,…
2021
Cameroon
Indonesia
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Morocco
Nigeria
Pakistan
Sierra Leone
United States
Women

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The Death Penalty Does Not Make Us Safer
By Witness to Innocence, on 24 January 2025
…Punishment Justice Project, Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide – Cornell Law School, CrimeInfo, a member organization of Anti Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN), Death Penalty Action, Death Penalty…
2025
United States

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71st Ordinary session of the African Commission: focus on torture and the death penalty
By Sarah Saint-Sorny, on 9 June 2022
…the Niger Coalition Against the Death Penalty. The death penalty on the agenda The opening ceremony marked the tone of the Session with two abolitionist calls. African Court Justice Blaise…
2022
Central African Republic
Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kenya
Malawi
Mauritania
Niger
Nigeria
Sierra Leone
Tunisia
Zambia

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International Day in Support of Victims of Torture: Understanding the link between the Death Penalty and Torture
By Wendy Adouki, on 26 June 2023
…and degrading treatment and urged the Tanzanian authorities to amend the death penalty laws. For World Day Against the Death Penalty 2022, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty has…
2023
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Death Row Conditions

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Abolition of the death penalty must be an integral part of crime prevention programmes and criminal justice reforms
By Amnesty International, on 5 March 2021
…of the death penalty in ongoing efforts. UN ECOSOC AND UNODC’S WORK AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY The UN unequivocally opposes the death penalty and ECOSOC and its subsidiary bodies have…
2021
Public Opinion

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Progress and impediments on path to abolition in U.S.
By Russ Feingold & Christopher Wright Durocher, on 3 April 2024
…for the first time since pollsters began asking the question, more Americans believe that the death penalty is applied unfairly than fairly. Unsurprisingly, public opposition to the death penalty is…
2024
United States

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Why is the Death Penalty not the answer to Rape?
By Morine Chauvris, on 8 July 2024
Every October 10th, the World Coalition against the death penalty and its members celebrates the World Day against the Death penalty. In 2024 and 2025, the abolitionist movement will focus…
2024
Women

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Hope resonates globally on World Day against the Death Penalty
By Nicolas Chua, on 25 October 2018
…against the Death Penalty recently published artwork by people on death row, and Abdorrahman Boroumand Center released a collection of stories from death row, a punishment that “doesn’t end at…
2018
Death Row Conditions

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Abolition of the death penalty at the United Nations Human Rights Council 51st session
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 24 October 2022
…the death penalty, especially for non-violent drug crimes. During the discussion of the human rights situation in Myanmar, the need to immediately reinstate the moratorium on the death penalty was…
2022
Trend Towards Abolition

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Joint statement on the death penalty and human rights of women and LGBTQIA+ individuals
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 October 2022
…death penalty and in continuation of the 2021 World Day Against the Death Penalty dedicated to women facing capital punishment, sentenced to death, executed, pardoned or charged with a capital…
2022
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Death Row Conditions
Fair Trial
Women

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Joint Open Letter to the Minister of Justice of Malawi on the abolition of the death penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 26 July 2024
…the Death Penalty (Republic of the Congo) Cornell Center on Death Penalty Worldwide (USA/ International) Death Penalty Focus- DPF (USA) Ditshwanelo- The Botswana Centre for Human Rights (Botswana) Droits et…
2024
Malawi

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Abolition of the death penalty at the 50th session of the UN Human Rights Council
By Anissa Aguedal, on 19 August 2022
…crimes.” Michelle Bachelet also welcomed the announcement of measures taken to abolish the death penalty in its entirety in the Central African Republic and to abolish the mandatory death penalty…
2022

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Iran Execution Trends Six Months After the New Anti-Narcotics Law
By Iran Human Rights (IHR), on 29 May 2018
…of those who were already sentenced to death or life imprisonment will be reduced to imprisonment plus mulct (fine). The amendment specifies that the death penalty should be limited to…
2018
Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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Iran’s brave human rights defenders and their struggle against the death penalty
By Amnesty International, on 5 March 2018
…since the organization first began campaigning for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty in 1977. Since this landmark moment, countries that use the death penalty have become an increasingly…
2018
Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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« A new Gambia » welcomes the 61st session of the ACHPR
By FIACAT and World Coalition against the Death Penalty, on 21 November 2017
…Forum underlined how unfair the death penalty is. Following up with the World Day Against the Death Penalty, a side event, organized by the World Coalition, FIACAT and FIDH, discussed…
2017
Gambia

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Singapore: Authorities must end human rights crackdown and unlawful drug related executions
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 2 December 2024
…ECPM – Together Against the Death Penalty Harm Reduction International MADPET– Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty World Coalition Against the Death Penalty…
2024
Drug Offenses
Singapore

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Abolition of the death penalty at the United Nations Human Rights Council 53rd session
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 18 September 2023
…CIVIL SOCIETY ORAL STATEMENTS ON THE DEATH PENALTY On the occasion of this 53rd session, several members of the World Coalition against the Death Penalty presented oral statements on the…
2023
Trend Towards Abolition

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The Supreme Court of Kenya declares the mandatory death penalty unconstitutional
By Thalia Gerzso, on 23 January 2018
…death penalty since 2000. Because the mandatory death penalty violates the right to a fair trial and access to justice, the Supreme Court of Malawi struck down the mandatory death…
2018
Kenya

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ADPAN network keeps up abolitionist fight
By Anti-Death Penalty Asian Network (ADPAN), on 10 October 2012
…the Asia-Pacific region have abolished the death penalty for all crimes; Fiji has abolished it for ordinary crimes only, 10 are abolitionist in practice and 13 retain the death penalty….
2012

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Towards the abolition of the death penalty in DRC: advances to be confirmed
By Olivier LUNGWE FATAKI - Pax Christi Uvira, on 13 December 2016
The death penalty in the Congolese legislation Whereas the death penalty is enshrined in the legislation, its implementation has been challenged. Through the 2003 de facto moratorium on the death…
2016
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Moratorium
Public Opinion

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The 8th World Congress reaffirms the importance of gender-based discussions
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 16 December 2022
…links between the death penalty and gender discrimination. At the 8th World Congress Against the Death Penalty, new angles of thinking between gender and the death penalty were addressed, emphasizing…
2022
Gender

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Abolition of the death penalty at the United Nations Human Rights Council 49th session
By Aurelie Placais, staff, on 3 May 2022
…abolition of the death penalty and freedom of belief. The death penalty was also an issue of concern during the General Debate on Human Rights Situations that Require the Council’s…
2022

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AGM focuses on mental health and progress in the Caribbean
By Inès Oulmokhtar, on 16 May 2014
…progress in this direction and eventually abolish the mandatory death penalty. The death penalty in the Caribbean was the focus of World Day Against the Death Penalty 2013. Mental health…
2014
Puerto Rico

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Despite recent setbacks, the trend towards the universal abolition towards the death penalty remains
By Elise Guillot, on 8 February 2017
…the death penalty: the Congress re-introduced the capital punishment in 1993 after the Constitution had abolished it in 1987. In 2006, the death penalty had been anew abolished. However, William…
2017

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UN High Level Panel on the death penalty and limitation to the most serious crimes
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 14 March 2023
…the mandatory death penalty is an accepted position for the country. Representatives from countries that have recently abolished the death penalty such as Zambia and Sierra took the floor to…
2023
Public Opinion

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TAEDP Withdraws from Ministry of Justice’s Task Force to Research the Gradual Abolition of the Death Penalty
By TAEDP, on 30 April 2020
…clearly stated that “to implement the policy of gradual abolition of the death penalty and achieve the ultimate goal of death penalty abolition, the Ministry of Justice is planning to…
2020
Taiwan

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Mid-terms: A first half of 2023 marked by multiple abolitions
By Nellia Halimi, on 9 October 2023
…a mandatory death sentence. The first bill, namely the Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Bill 2023 (DR 7) abolished the mandatory death penalty for all 12 offences which previously carried…
2023
Ghana
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Kenya
Malaysia
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Trend Towards Abolition
United States
Uzbekistan

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Death penalty 2018: Dramatic fall in global executions
By Amnesty International, on 10 April 2019
…all.” At the end of 2018, 106 countries had abolished the death penalty in law for all crimes and 142 countries had abolished the death penalty in law or practice….
2019

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Call for tenders for an external final evaluation
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 15 June 2021
…Presentation of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, an alliance of more than 160 NGOs, bar associations, local authorities and unions, was…
2021
Maldives
Philippines
Turkey

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Singapore: the government threatens abolitionists and human rights defenders.
By Thalia Gerzso, on 24 January 2018
…a glimpse of hope to the abolitionists. The death penalty reforms quickly disappointed abolitionists and international observers, however. Whereas the death penalty reforms aimed to amend the mandatory death penalty…
2018
Singapore

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Bahrain: Joint appeal for commutation and moratorium
By Salam for Democracy and Human Rights, on 13 January 2022
…the death penalty and that for a seven year period the govern observed a de facto moratorium on the implementation of the death penalty. Our organisations and institutions, listed below,…
2022
Bahrain
Clemency
Moratorium

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Death penalty at the heart of human rights review
By Thomas Hubert, on 5 February 2013
The World Coalition and its local member, the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP), have been highlighting the abuses linked to the use of the death penalty as…
2013
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Moratorium
Taiwan
Taiwan

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Advocating for the Adoption of the Draft Protocol by the African Union: A Step in the Right Direction for Abolition in Africa
By Florence Venunye Ayivor-Vieira and Hervé Nsambimana, on 15 December 2023
…and drug trafficking. Apart from the violation of human rights and the inhumane nature of the death penalty, the application of the death penalty is arguably irreversible, and once a…
2023
Trend Towards Abolition

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A new decline in the use of the death penalty in the US in 2016
By Elise Guillot, on 17 January 2017
…will certainly be a pro-death justice.” Finally, Speedy Rice fears “an increase in federal death penalty prosecutions and a push to renew federal executions”: “While the past federal death penalty…
2017
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Public Opinion
United States

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Middle East and North Africa: Abolitionist civil societies in full swing despite a difficult context
By Aurelie Placais, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 15 February 2022
…death penalty for alleged child offenders for certain crimes, prosecutors can seek the death penalty against children for crimes such as murder. Abdullah al-Huweiti has been on death row since…
2022
Bahrain
Egypt
Fair Trial
Iraq
Moratorium
Morocco
Saudi Arabia
State of Palestine
Terrorism
Tunisia

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Morocco’s death penalty takes centre stage at Marrakesh forum
By Thomas Hubert (in Marrakesh, Morocco), on 28 November 2014
…is the first time since 1999 that the king has spoken on the death penalty”, said Abderrahim Jamai, co-ordinator of the Moroccan Coalition Against the Death Penalty. MP Kadhija Rouissi,…
2014
Morocco

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DPIC’s Report on the 2020 Death Penalty Usage in the US
By Louis Linel, on 6 January 2021
TheDeath Penalty Information Center’s 2020 annual report highlights the continuing trend toward abolition in the US and the resumption of federal executions in a challenging COVID-19 context. The Death Penalty…
2021
United States

21st World Day Against the Death Penalty – The death penalty: An irreversible torture
on 12 June 2023
…and more evident that the death penalty is inherently incompatible with the prohibition of torture. Scroll down and find more information about torture and the death penalty in our leaflet,…
2023
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Death Row Conditions

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World Coalition raises mental health issues in administration of the death penalty
By Thomas Hubert (in San Juan, Puerto Rico), on 22 June 2014
…available in many Caribbean jurisdictions, to create jurisprudence. Issues of mental health and the death penalty will be at the heart of this year’s World Day Against the Death Penalty…
2014
Puerto Rico

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African leaders and abolitionists hold anti-death penalty summit in Cotonou
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 7 July 2014
…the death penalty”. The regional trend against the death penalty is a reality: 17 AU Member States have enacted laws to abolish the death penalty , including four States in…
2014
Benin
Benin
Public Opinion
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World Coalition AGM encourages US to join the abolitionist majority
on 22 June 2010
…way to provide justice” “The vast majority of the world’s nations no longer use the death penalty,” said Stefanie Faucher, associate director of Death Penalty Focus. “95% of executions occur…
2010
United States

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Eager to learn more about the death penalty? Abolitionist civil society around the world answered your call!
By Elise Guillot, on 8 November 2016
…what they had to say about the death penalty. The Death Penalty and Terrorism Amnesty International released a report entitled 2016 World Day against the Death Penalty, focusing this…
2016
Terrorism

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Abolition of the death penalty at the United Nations Human Rights Council 55th session
on 13 September 2024
…nitrogen gas in the United States reiterated its categorical opposition to death penalty everywhere in all circumstances. Australia welcomed Ghana and Malaysia’s progress towards abolishing the death penalty, but expressed…
2024
Trend Towards Abolition

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Abolitionists support death row survivors
By Thalia Gerzso, on 14 November 2017
…death row survivors can successfully reintegrate into society and for some of them, advocate for the abolition of the death penalty. Death row survivors against the death penalty Death row…
2017
Innocence
Murder Victims' Families
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Teng Biao: Olympics an opportunity to put pressure on the Chinese authorities”
on 13 February 2008
…on the death penalty front in China in the near future? I think that more intellectuals will agree with the abolition of the death penalty, and that we will be…
2008
China
Innocence
Public Opinion

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A Look Back at the 20th Anniversary of the World Day Against the Death Penalty
By Dunia Schaffa, on 27 January 2023
…in which the topic of torture and its link to the death penalty were investigated under the banner, “The Death Penalty: A Road Paved with Torture”. World Day falls under…
2023
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Death Row Conditions

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Notes on the Supreme Court Trial in the Chen Fu-hsiang Case: Life or Death Debates in the Style of ChatGPT
By Lin Tzu-Wei (Legal Director of the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty), on 14 July 2023
…fair and accurate assessment. The Supreme Court, currently under renovation, is conducting life or death debates in a death penalty case. Photo credit: Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty…
2023
Taiwan

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International Conference Against the Death Penalty: abolistionists are united and determined
By Lorène du Crest, on 18 July 2017
…the Death Penalty Worldwide (United States), and Hsinyi Lin, Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (Taiwan), focused on the fact-finding methodology to interview the death row population. Another workshop…
2017

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What China’s report to the United Nations tells us about transparency and the death penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 28 June 2024
…state report, nothing was reported this year. Silence on the death penalty In its 2014 review and in its 2018 report, China mentioned the death penalty to highlight progress made…
2024
China

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Top UN representatives take stance on death penalty at Human Rights Council
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 14 March 2014
…death penalty is an issue that every state has the right to decide on.” Death penalty high on the UN agenda in 2014 Several side events on the death penalty…
2014
Afghanistan
Benin
Brazil
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Mongolia
Morocco
Myanmar
Namibia
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Sudan
United States

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Algeria: it’s time to move from the moratorium to the abolition
By Florence Bellivier et Lorène du Crest, on 24 May 2017
During these 2 days, several aspects of the death penalty were addressed in very relevant interventions, among which: the history of the death penalty in Algeria with the interventions of…
2017
Algeria
Moratorium
Public Opinion

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Statement on the end of the unofficial moratorium on executions in Myanmar
By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 11 August 2022
…la Paix et la Justice (CPJ), Death Penalty Focus, German Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (GCADP), Greater Caribbean for Life, Hands Off Cain, Japan Innocence & Death Penalty Information…
2022
Moratorium
Myanmar

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Morocco is working to break down the political barriers to the abolition of the death penalty
By Tiziana Trotta, on 26 October 2015
…the death penalty “Despite the 23 year moratorium, it is difficult to get rid of the death penalty. The non-application of the death penalty is not a problem for the…
2015
Morocco

Jobs
Open Call for proposals – Financial Support to Third Parties – Global Consortium for Death Penalty Abolition
on 19 September 2024
…to reducing the number of crimes punishable by death, abolition of the mandatory death penalty, banning death sentences and executions of juveniles, increasing respect of international human rights, achieving greater…
2024

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The Rights of Children Whose Parents Are Sentenced to Death – The Case of Tunisia
By Lisa Borden, volunteer with The Advocates for Human Rights, on 30 October 2019
…Coalition Against the Death Penalty, and Choukri Latif of the Coalition tunissiene contre la peine de mort (a Tunisian anti-death penalty NGO), to address the committee regarding Tunisia’s failure to…
2019
Juveniles
Tunisia

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10 years, 132 members, 45 countries
By Florence Bellivier, on 30 June 2012
…Zitrin of Death Penalty Focus updated the AGM on the campaign to abolish the death penalty in California. Watch her interview below: The death penalty to enforce terror in Irak…
2012
Drug Offenses
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iraq
Jordan
Moratorium
Singapore
Taiwan

Jobs
Call for tenders for support in creating online training modules
on 20 December 2024
Presentation of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty Comprising over 170 NGOs, bar associations, local authorities and trade unions, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty was founded in…
2024

22nd World Day Against the Death Penalty – The death penalty protects no one.
on 12 June 2024
…Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Traditional Chinese, Urdu, and Yoruba. THE DEATH PENALTY IN PRACTICE (Statistics from Amnesty International) 112 States have abolished the death penalty for all crimes 9…
2024
Public Opinion
Trend Towards Abolition

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Cities for Life 2016: Let’s stay vigilant
By Emmanuel Trépied, on 19 December 2016
…France, recalled, those events support the growing consensus in favour of the universal abolition of the death penalty. To date, 105 States are abolitionist, 7 have abolished the death penalty…
2016
Public Opinion

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73rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights: In- Person, Advocating Against the Death Penalty
By Bronwyn Dudley & Connie Numbi, on 16 December 2022
…orally. Two resolutions on the death penalty were also passed. One championed by NGOs and the ACHPR’s working group on the death penalty, N°544 ‘Resolution on the Death Penalty and…
2022

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Mid-terms: A first half of 2022 rich in abolitions
By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 13 September 2022
…of Zambia affirmed his commitment to the abolition of the death penalty on May 24 by commuting 30 death sentences and submitting a death penalty abolition bill to Parliament. He…
2022

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At least 1,193 executions since Hassan Rouhani’s election as president in Iran
on 13 March 2015
…issue in the bilateral dialogue between Iran and the countries which are the main promoters of abolition of the death penalty on the international scene. If the death penalty is…
2015
Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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NGO Forum & The ACHPR: A broad overview of African prisons amidst tensions
By Jessica Corredor, on 16 November 2018
Addressing living conditions on death row In the wake of the World Day against the Death Penalty, living conditions on death row in sub-Saharan Africa was at the heart of…
2018
Death Row Conditions
Legal Representation

20th World Day Against the Death Penalty – Death penalty: a road paved with torture
on 10 June 2022
…PENALTY IN PRACTICE (Statistics from Amnesty International) 110 States have abolished the death penalty for all crimes 7 States have abolished the death penalty for common law crimes 27 States…
2022
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Death Row Conditions

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Discussion at the Human Rights Council of human rights violations related to the use of the death penalty
By Jessica Corredor, on 7 March 2017
…of the prisoners on death row and declared that Kenya has taken measures regarding the death penalty. Recently, President Kenyatta commuted the death sentences of 2747 prisoners to “decrowd” death…
2017
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

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Reflecting on the links between the death penalty and gender-based violence
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 25 November 2022
…to death. As research from the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide highlights, the primary motive for women’s death sentences is the crime of murder, often linked to gender-based…
2022
Gender
Kenya
Sri Lanka
Uganda
Women
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Indonesian activists face upward death penalty trend
on 10 February 2009
…the death penalty The death penalty appears to enjoy widespread support in Indonesia, both in government ranks and among the general public. Media polls typically show around 75 per cent…
2009
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Drug Offenses
Indonesia
Public Opinion

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ASEAN countries step back on the path towards abolition
By Tiziana Trotta, on 27 October 2016
…to campaign for the end of the death penalty. The Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture (MADPET) hopes “that there will be no more death penalty in Malaysia by the…
2016
Drug Offenses
Terrorism

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12 Years Without an Execution: Is Zimbabwe Ready for Abolition?
By Death Penalty Project, on 24 May 2018
…in 2011 revealed that 89% of the public were in favour of keeping the death penalty. Moreover, the reluctance of Zimbabweans to impose the death penalty in different cases where…
2018
Public Opinion
Zimbabwe

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CEDAW experts welcome World Coalition members in the #CEDAW86 side event on gender and the death penalty
By Venus Aves, on 8 November 2023
…and recommendations from speakers Amy Bergquist of The Advocates for Human Rights, Chelsea Halstead of Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide (CCDPW), Chow Ying Ngeow of Anti-Death Penalty Asia…
2023
Gender

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No mention of death row prisoners in Mandela rules
By Nordine Drici (Planète Réfugiés) & Sandrine Ageorges-Skinner (ECPM), on 30 November 2018
Chosen as the theme of the World Day against the Death Penalty on 10 October 2018, living conditions on death row are subjected to general standards in line with those…
2018
Death Row Conditions

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Events, strong words and hard facts to fight death penalty in the Caribbean
By Thomas Hubert, on 11 October 2013
…Network for the Abolition of the Death Penalty, or heard a talk about the famous Spanish painter Francisco de Goya’s abhorrence of the cruelty of the death penalty, a group…
2013
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Guatemala
Jamaica
Public Opinion
Puerto Rico
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Trinidad and Tobago

Article(s)
Recapping the UN Crime Congress in Kyoto
By Teppei Ono, CPR, on 15 March 2021
…global trend toward the abolition of the death penalty, a recent survey has identified that more than 80% of people support the death penalty in Japan. The Japanese government has continued to…
2021
Public Opinion

19th World Day Against the Death Penalty – Women and the death penalty, an invisible reality
on 10 June 2021
…the consequences such discrimination can have on a death sentence. The death penalty in practice (Statistics from Amnesty International unless otherwise specified) Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide…
2021
Women

Article(s)
TAIWAN: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT TO HEAR CHALLENGE TO DEATH PENALTY LAW
By World coalition against the death penalty, Amnesty International, on 23 April 2024
…Against the Death Penalty are among several non-governmental organizations intervening in the case, in support of the full abolition of the death penalty. The constitutional challenge arises from the case…
2024
Taiwan

Article(s)
Drug policy reform, harm reduction movement and the death penalty abolition movement have much in common
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 26 June 2019
…rights activists and the death penalty abolition movement. At a Crossroads As Naomi Burke-Shyne, Executive Director of Harm Reduction International opened the HR19 conference, she mentioned the death penalty for…
2019
Drug Offenses

Article(s)
Joint Declaration on the Death Penalty and Women’s Rights
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 October 2021
…the death penalty/ still retain the death penalty: A) Abolish the death penalty for all offences, regardless of gender; B) Pending full abolition, we call on governments to: Eliminate the…
2021
Women

Article(s)
Abolitionists fight against the abusive use of the death penalty
By Thalia Gerzso, on 28 November 2017
…advocacy videos, the newspaper Dawn published the story of three families victims of the death penalty. Through storytelling, JPP wished to demonstrate how unfair and inadequate the death penalty is….
2017
Pakistan
Public Opinion

Article(s)
U.S. sees second fewest death sentences and executions in 25 Years
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 22 March 2018
…U.S. Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional in 1972. It was the seventh year in a row that fewer than 100 death sentences were imposed nationwide. “The Death Penalty…
2018
United States

Article(s)
New Hampshire: 21st State to Abolish the Death Penalty in the USA
By Aurelie Placais, on 12 June 2019
…Death Penalty. A Growing Trend Over the last 10 years, 7 states in the USA have abolished the death penalty, either by the legislature voting for a bill (New Hampshire…
2019
United States

Article(s)
Suriname and Haiti to lead abolitionist way in the Caribbean
By Thomas Hubert (in San Juan, Puerto Rico), on 27 June 2014
…the Paris-based NGO Together Against the Death Penalty added that the authorities of Haiti, which has abolished the death penalty, gave him assurances during a country visit in June that…
2014
Barbados
Haiti
Jamaica
Puerto Rico
Suriname
Suriname
Trinidad and Tobago

Article(s)
The United Nations Human Rights Council votes in favor of a new resolution on the death penalty
By Jessica Corredor, on 4 October 2017
…the context of the death penalty. An entire part of the report focuses on socio-economic discriminations which echoes the World Day Against the Death Penalty’s theme: the death penalty and…
2017
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Article(s)
ADPAN network reinforces its strength in Asia
By Jessica Corredor, on 22 August 2017
…death penalty as well as secret executions. Towards the abolition of the death penalty in Malaysia Malaysia being the host country of the conference, the abolition of the death penalty…
2017
Malaysia

Article(s)
A Moratorium acts as a “truce” for the death penalty
on 23 August 2012
…“truce” for the death penalty, a time politically, procedurally, legislatively and civilly to discuss, reflect and prepare. South Africa, for example, abolished the death penalty after five years of moratorium”…
2012
Benin
Burundi
Ethiopia
Ghana
Guinea
Latvia
Maldives
Mauritania
Mongolia
Moratorium
Morocco
Myanmar
Nigeria
Rwanda
Sierra Leone
South Africa
Suriname
Uganda
United States
Zambia

Article(s)
How to work with international bodies?
By Maria Donatelli, on 10 June 2013
…special rapporteur on the death penalty. European Union The main channel of collaboration between the EU and civil society on the death penalty is linked to funding provided by the…
2013

Article(s)
How Likely Is the Return of the Death Penalty in Israel?
By World Coalition against the Death Penalty, on 22 May 2023
…squad. However, Tobianski was later exonerated posthumously, highlighting the deep flaws of death penalty as an irreversible punishment. In 1954, the Knesset, abolished the death penalty for murder, but has…
2023
Israel