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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
…Protocol the only international instrument on the death penalty? Currently there are four international treaties which provide for the abolition of the death penalty. The Second Optional Protocol is the…
2008
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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
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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
…the treatment of death row prisoners in Taiwan, the development of legislation protecting the rights of victims, and constitutional litigation related to the death penalty across different countries. The following…
2024
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Death Row Conditions
India
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Statutes of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
on 26 June 2011
…the Declaration). In conformity with this commitment, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty was created in Rome, Italy, on 13 May 2002. The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty…
2011
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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
…their children (…). » [11]The motion taken by the NBC is available at the following link: https://www.cnb.avocat.fr/sites/default/files/cnb-mo2019-02-09_ldh-caei_peine_de_mort_sedillotfinal-p.pdf [12]The text of the joint resolution of the Paris Bar and the International…
2019
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Iran Execution Trends Six Months After the New Anti-Narcotics Law
By Iran Human Rights (IHR), on 29 May 2018
…In the current mechanism, the same judges who once issued the death sentences, are responsible for the reviewing of the same cases. Moreover, the bribery and corruption problem in the…
2018
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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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
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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
…the death penalty in the OIC States. The report aims to show the different legislative and institutional stages of the abolition of the death penalty in these States and to…
2021
Juveniles
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What is the Risk that the Death Penalty Will Return in Your Country?
on 20 August 2021
…death penalty? The majority of Turkish citizens support the death penalty. In a 2019 poll, 71.7% answered “Yes” to the question “Would you support the death penalty for the crimes…
2021
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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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TAEDP Withdraws from Ministry of Justice’s Task Force to Research the Gradual Abolition of the Death Penalty
By TAEDP, on 30 April 2020
…and restraint of government power. The Ministry of Justice, as the competent authority for the death penalty, on the one hand knows that there is a problem with the law…
2020
Taiwan
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UN High Level Panel on the Death Penalty and Deterrence
By Grace O'Connor, on 25 February 2021
…on the human rights violations associated with the use of the death penalty, in particular with respect to the theory that the use of the death penalty has a deterrent…
2021
Public Opinion
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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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Ways to Restrict the Use of the Death Penalty in Iran
By Iran Human Rights, on 8 April 2019
…the international community and the Iranian civil society are the main driving forces behind any reforms towards restricting the use of the death penalty in Iran. The few times we…
2019
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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Call for tenders for an external final evaluation
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 15 June 2021
…universal abolition of the death penalty. Goals: The aim of the World Coalition is to strengthen the international dimension of the fight against the death penalty. Its ultimate goal is…
2021
Maldives
Philippines
Turkey
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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
…Resolutions adopted While there was no specific resolution on the death penalty at this session, some of them were linked to the death penalty: Extension of the mandate of the…
2022
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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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Glossary of the Second Optional Protocol
By Pierre Désert, on 25 June 2008
…declaration to define the territorial application of the Protocol: “Until the full re-establishment of the territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova , the provisions of the Convention shall be…
2008
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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
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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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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
…the adoption process. Advocating for the adoption of the death penalty by the African Union is a step in the right direction. Photograph Copyright: World Coalition Against the Death Penalty…
2023
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
…bodily harm. Malaysia must expedite the abolition of the death penalty, especially the mandatory death penalty. THEREFORE, we: a) Call on Malaysia to immediately put into force the Dangerous Drugs…
2018
Malaysia
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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
…include the abolition of the death penalty. According to Ms. Kayitesi, Commissioner and President of the Working group on the death penalty of the ACHPR, political leaders have the last…
2017
Gambia
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Hope resonates globally on World Day against the Death Penalty
By Nicolas Chua, on 25 October 2018
…the UK, The Justice Institute Guyana and the Center for Small States organized a conference on “Challenging the Death Penalty in the Commonwealth Caribbean”. GCL’s chair made a presentation at this…
2018
Death Row Conditions
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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
…Hon. Dr. Pindi Hazara Chana, who pledged that the government would work against the death penalty. The NETWORK for the Abolition of the Death Penalty and Cruel Punishment (REPECAP) led…
2023
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
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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
…the death penalty on the defendant. The most recent trial judgment in this case (the third trial) is particularly perplexing. It acknowledges the possibility of the defendant’s rehabilitation but refuses…
2023
Taiwan
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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
…their position against the death penalty and their commitment to its abolition. The Working Group on the Death Penalty and Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions in Africa of the African…
2021
Cameroon
Indonesia
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Morocco
Nigeria
Pakistan
Sierra Leone
United States
Women
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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 in the country was welcomed. The annual report of the Secretary General on the question of the death penalty was also presented. This report commends the efforts…
2022
Trend Towards Abolition
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Why Jordan resumed executing people on the death row?
By Hend Hanafy, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, on 18 April 2018
…place in the international arena as an ally in the war on terrorism. The resumption of the death penalty was feared in the past amid worries that the international aid…
2018
Jordan
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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NGO Forum & The ACHPR: A broad overview of African prisons amidst tensions
By Jessica Corredor, on 16 November 2018
…Corredor (World Coalition Against the Death Penalty). Moderation was provided by Mabassa Fall, FIDH representative to the African Union. The speakers presented the situation regarding the death penalty in their…
2018
Death Row Conditions
Legal Representation
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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
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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
…of the law on the abolition of the death penalty. The death penalty was also mentioned during the presentation of the Secretary-General’s report on the situation of human rights in…
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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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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Progress and impediments on path to abolition in U.S.
By Russ Feingold & Christopher Wright Durocher, on 3 April 2024
…sentences have been trending down since their historic highs in the late 1990s. In the past two decades, eleven states have abolished the death penalty, bring the total of non-death…
2024
United States
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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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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
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United States
Uzbekistan
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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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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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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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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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A challenge to the abolitionist movement
By Sandra Babcock, on 16 December 2011
Over the last few decades, we have made great strides toward the universal abolition of the death penalty. Nevertheless, despite the progress we have made, the death penalty remains entrenched…
2011
Intellectual Disability
Malawi
Mental Illness
Mexico
Moratorium
United States
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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
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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
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Does one year of “double zero” mean the death penalty has been repealed? How close is Taiwan to abolishing capital punishment?
By Lin Hsin-yi, Executive Director of the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty, on 28 April 2022
…restricting the use of the death penalty to the most serious crimes. In 2018, The Human Rights Council made General comment no. 36 on Article 6 of the International Covenant…
2022
Taiwan
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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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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
20th World Day against the Death Penalty On this 20th anniversary of the World Day Against the Death Penalty dedicated to the link between torture and the use of the…
2022
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Death Row Conditions
Fair Trial
Women
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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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“It’s in Africa that we find the strongest dynamics towards abolition”
By Clémentine Etienne, on 24 April 2018
…the continuity of the project. Different working groups have been set up depending on the geographical areas and the situation of the country regarding the death penalty, which has made…
2018
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The death penalty in the DRC: an illusory means of combating impunity in the face of human rights implementation
By Mr Olivier LUNGWE FATAKI of Pax Christi Uvira, absl, on 30 August 2024
…the Government’s intention to abolish the death penalty, to transform the de facto moratorium into abolition of the death penalty, and to ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR. …
2024
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Abolition of the death penalty at the United Nations Human Rights Council 55th session
on 13 September 2024
…of the death penalty! During the debates During the Interactive Dialogue with the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran on March 18, Chairperson Sara Hossain, denounced the…
2024
Trend Towards Abolition
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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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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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Abolition in Africa- 77th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
By Yasin Sentumbwe Munagomba and Bronwyn Dudley, on 12 January 2024
…the ACHPR. Change in Participation- Prioritizing the Session over the NGO Forum Unlike previous advocacy work within the sphere of the ACHPR, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty did…
2024
Gender
Trend Towards Abolition
Uganda
United Republic of Tanzania
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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
…reflect on the links between gender-based violence and the death penalty based on their experiences. The result is clear: although the subject of women and gender minorities sentenced to death…
2022
Gender
Kenya
Sri Lanka
Uganda
Women
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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
The 19th World Day Against the Death Penalty highlighted the intersectional discrimination that women face in the judicial process leading to the death penalty, making visible one facet of the…
2022
Gender
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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
…on the Death Penalty, click here. By: Lisa Borden, a volunteer with The Advocates for Human Rights, currently based in Geneva, Switzerland. Link to the original article in English: https://theadvocatespost.org/2019/10/09/the-rights-of-children-whose-parents-are-sentenced-to-death-the-case-of-tunisia/…
2019
Juveniles
Tunisia
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A major abolitionist gathering for the 60th ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights in Niger
By Jessica Corredor, on 19 May 2017
…May, during the 60th ordinary session of the ACHPR, the Working Group on the death penalty and extrajudicial execution organized a panel on the death penalty. In its intervention, the…
2017
Niger
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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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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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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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Top UN representatives take stance on death penalty at Human Rights Council
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 14 March 2014
…for Human Rights, the International Commission against the Death Penalty and the World Coalition. In September 2014, the UN Treaty event will highlight the Protocol on the abolition the death…
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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International Conference Against the Death Penalty: abolistionists are united and determined
By Lorène du Crest, on 18 July 2017
…first one was dedicated to the death penalty and poverty, the theme of the next World Day Against the Death Penalty, in which intervened Shreya Rastogi, Center on the Death…
2017
Article(s)
Mid-terms: A first half of 2022 rich in abolitions
By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 13 September 2022
…It officially became the 24th African state to abolish the death penalty. Other states seem inclined to abolish the death penalty in the coming months. The President of the Republic…
2022
Jobs
Open Call for proposals – Financial Support to Third Parties – Global Consortium for Death Penalty Abolition
on 19 September 2024
…The Rights Practice (TRP), Witness to Innocence (WTI) and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty. For more information ² Initiative co-funded by the European Union under a Financial Framework…
2024
Article(s)
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
…addressed during the high-level event on the death penalty at the 34th session of the Human Rights Council. The abolition of death penalty is a matter of principle, not a…
2017
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Article(s)
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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Key Outcomes from the 79th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
By Isabella Ataides, on 26 September 2024
…African Union and the Clerk of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) requesting their review and feedback on the draft. Exploring the Link Between Security and the Death Penalty The Working Group…
2024
Trend Towards Abolition
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75th Ordinary Session of the African Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights
By Wendy Adouki, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 15 August 2023
…periodic report was studied along with Senegal –abolished the death penalty in December 2022. Additionally, Honorable Idrissa Sow announced that the 2011 study on the death penalty in Africa would…
2023
Trend Towards Abolition
Article(s)
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
Article(s)
A Look Back at the 20th Anniversary of the World Day Against the Death Penalty
By Dunia Schaffa, on 27 January 2023
…suffered for 20 years, the stress, the untreated diseases, and the poor hygiene.” 10 October 2022 marked the 20th anniversary of the World Day Against the Death Penalty (World Day)…
2023
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Death Row Conditions
Article(s)
Singapore: Authorities must end executions and stop targeting anti-death penalty activists to curb criticism
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 28 August 2024
…– International Federation for Human Rights MADPET – Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture Parliamentarians for Global Action Taiwan Alliance Against the Death Penalty World Coalition Against the Death Penalty…
2024
Singapore
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
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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
Article(s)
64th ACHPR Session: Concluding in Egypt, Where Sentences & Executions are on the Rise
By Bronwyn Dudley, on 14 May 2019
Discussing Death Penalty Abolition in Egypt On 25th April, the day after the opening ceremony of the 64th Ordinary Session of the ACHPR, a panel on the death penalty was…
2019
Article(s)
The Supreme Court of Kenya declares the mandatory death penalty unconstitutional
By Thalia Gerzso, on 23 January 2018
…rules on the legality of the mandatory death penalty. In 2010, the Court of Appeal at Mombasa held that the mandatory death penalty violated the right to life and the…
2018
Kenya
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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
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Importance of understanding phases of abolition: the danger of ‘abolitionist in practice’
By Venus Aves, Bronwyn Dudley, and Shahindha Ismail, on 6 November 2023
…or retentionist. These are the categories identified by Amnesty International and used by many anti-death penalty organizations, including the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty and the Maldivian Democracy Network….
2023
Moratorium
Article(s)
The international responsibility of States
By Pierre Désert, on 25 June 2008
…or of other entities acting at the instigation or under the direction or control of these organisations, that is, in the capacity of agents of the State. For example, the…
2008
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Adoption of Bill Allowing the Imposition of the Death Penalty for a New Crime.
By Grace Keane O'Connor , on 30 April 2021
…part of the government of the Philippines to reintroduce the death penalty, who, under the leadership of President Duterte, has called for a return to the death penalty since his…
2021
Drug Offenses
Philippines
Article(s)
Iran’s brave human rights defenders and their struggle against the death penalty
By Amnesty International, on 5 March 2018
…their repression against their work. Human rights defenders jailed for their anti-death penalty work They Iranian authorities have harassed and jailed people involved in the country’s anti-death penalty movement, often…
2018
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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Justice ministers meet on the eve of Cities Against the Death Penalty
By Elizabeth Zitrin (World Coalition vice-president), in Rome, on 1 December 2013
…spoke about the death penalty as “never having been truly a part of human nature”. He framed the battle against the death penalty, along with the battles against slavery and…
2013
Afghanistan
Belarus
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Italy
Philippines
Senegal
Switzerland
United States
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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)
Africa raises its voice against the death penalty
By Tiziana Trotta, on 21 October 2016
…the debate on the application of the death penalty for terrorism and addressed the situation of Congolese law and the problems for abolition. Faustin Bwami, assistant at the Faculty of…
2016
Terrorism
Article(s)
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
Article(s)
World Coalition AGM encourages US to join the abolitionist majority
on 22 June 2010
…Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty. “The members of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty are our best partners and our supporters.” Story by Elizabeth Zitrin & Jessica…
2010
United States
Article(s)
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
Article(s)
Indonesian activists face upward death penalty trend
on 10 February 2009
…on the constitutionality of the death penalty. But only one of these judges is still on the court today. Revisions to the Criminal Code Activists could also lobby for the…
2009
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Drug Offenses
Indonesia
Public Opinion
Article(s)
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
…the death penalty in the Gazan strip’s courts’, supported by the “HAMAS” government, The number of death sentences in Gaza since the beginning of this year has now reached (12),…
2022
Bahrain
Egypt
Fair Trial
Iraq
Moratorium
Morocco
Saudi Arabia
State of Palestine
Terrorism
Tunisia
Article(s)
The great abolitionist event comes to the UN
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 17 October 2011
…Against the Death Penalty from Madrid to Geneva with the official opening ceremony, a film/debate evening, business meetings and deliberations about the death penalty by experts. The death penalty as…
2011
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Death Row Conditions
Switzerland
Article(s)
Eager to learn more about the death penalty? Abolitionist civil society around the world answered your call!
By Elise Guillot, on 8 November 2016
…Coalition against the Death Penalty, has launched a factsheet on the death penalty for terrorism, insisting on the ineffectiveness of the death penalty. The factsheet also suggests ways to contribute…
2016
Terrorism
Article(s)
NGO Forum and 69th Ordinary Session of the African Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights
By Bronwyn Dudley and Corentin Mançois, on 17 December 2021
…in line with the World Day Against the Death Penalty’s theme this year, that focused on the impact the death penalty has on women. Resolution 483 is the fifth resolution…
2021
Terrorism
Women
Article(s)
Abolitionist advocacy at the 88th CEDAW Session
on 7 June 2024
…the death penalty was a CEDAW issue and concluded by questioning the Malaysian government’s plans to abolish the death penalty, thus reaffirming their commitment to abolishing the death penalty. In…
2024
Brazil
Estonia
Gender
Kuwait
Malaysia
Montenegro
Republic of Korea
Rwanda
Singapore
Article(s)
Over 8,000 people on death row in South Asia
By Aurelie Placais, staff, on 3 May 2022
…persons with intellectual disabilities, in the case of these nine prisoners, their disability was not even brought to the attention of the courts. The report also speaks about the pains…
2022
Bangladesh
Death Row Conditions
India
Maldives
Mental Illness
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Article(s)
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)
High-Level Remote Panel on the Moratorium Resolution
By Louis Linel, on 6 November 2020
…in line with the actual domestic situation of the death penalty. As its name suggests, the resolution does not call upon States to formally abolish the death penalty, but rather…
2020
Algeria
Belgium
Democratic Republic of the Congo
France
Italy
Moratorium
Morocco
Switzerland
Article(s)
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
Article(s)
The Inter-American system commits to see the end of the death penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 13 January 2020
…Death Penalty Project, a member organisation of the World Coalition, appeared before the Commission at a thematic hearing on ‘The situation of the death penalty in the English-speaking countries of…
2020