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how Malaysian politics has shaped the death penalty as our country knows it today

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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

World coalition against death penalty

Article(s)

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

UN Human Rights Council

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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

International Symposium on the Right to Life in Taiwan

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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

…Maitreyi depicts the conditions of death row and incarceration of death row prisoners in India. There is insufficient light in the prison, and the living environment is also very poor….

2024

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Death Row Conditions 

India

Taiwan

Article(s)

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

Article(s)

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

…quality interpreting: The question of access to interpreting is covered in different ways in legal terms depending on the stage of the criminal proceedings in which the defendant facing the

2019

Article(s)

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)

China Death Penalty 2022

Article(s)

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

Article(s)

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

Legal Representation

Women

Philipines flag

Article(s)

Adoption of Bill Allowing the Imposition of the Death Penalty for a New Crime.

By Grace Keane O'Connor , on 30 April 2021

Philippines. An educational and advocacy brochure titled “Keep the Death Penalty Abolished in the Philippines” has recently been finalized in 13 languages, including 11 local languages of the Philippines and…

2021

Drug Offenses

Philippines

Page(s)

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

World Coalition Against the Death Penalyt

Article(s)

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

the Death Penalty presented 17 oral statements on the death penalty.  During the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, 4 oral statements…

2023

Trend Towards Abolition

Article(s)

TAEDP Withdraws from Ministry of Justice’s Task Force to Research the Gradual Abolition of the Death Penalty

By TAEDP, on 30 April 2020

…its press release, the Ministry of Justice claims that, in accordance with the Guidelines Regarding the Execution of Death Penalty Cases, they sent inquiries to the relevant authorities to verify…

2020

Taiwan

United Nations 46th Human Rights Council

Article(s)

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 

UN Human Rights Council

Article(s)

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

Article(s)

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)

World Coalition Against the Death Penalty

Article(s)

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

UN Human Rights Council

Article(s)

Abolition of the death penalty at the United Nations Human Rights Council 49th session

By Aurelie Placais, staff, on 3 May 2022

…Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, during the Interactive Dialogue with the High Commissioner on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar, during the Interactive Dialogue with the

2022

World coalition against death penalty

Article(s)

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 

World Coalition Against the Death Penalty

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Glossary of the Second Optional Protocol

By Pierre Désert, on 25 June 2008

the UN). The application of the term treaty, in the generic sense, signifies that the parties intend to create rights and obligations enforceable under international law. The Vienna Convention 1969…

2008

14th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

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Recapping the UN Crime Congress in Kyoto

By Teppei Ono, CPR, on 15 March 2021

the executions – 13 within three weeks – was the largest since the Second World War, they appeared in the headlines of much of the mass media. In the meantime,…

2021

Public Opinion 

Singapore: Authorities must end human rights crackdown and unlawful drug related executions

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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

Advocacy in Addis-Ababa

Article(s)

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

Article(s)

Hope resonates globally on World Day against the Death Penalty

By Nicolas Chua, on 25 October 2018

the Death Penalty held a press conference and sit-in in front of Parliament, and in Palestine, a sit-in took place in Ramallah. A report was published by the Cairo Institute…

2018

Death Row Conditions 

Article(s)

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

Article(s)

« A new Gambia » welcomes the 61st session of the ACHPR

By FIACAT and World Coalition against the Death Penalty, on 21 November 2017

…discussed the death penalty in their respective country and underlined the impact of poverty on the death penalty. LEDAP’s representative emphasized how corruption is prevalent in Nigeria. Because they do…

2017

Gambia

Reinforcing the Link Between Torture and the Death Penalty: 21st World Day Against the Death Penalty

Article(s)

Reinforcing the Link Between Torture and the Death Penalty: 21st World Day Against the Death Penalty

By Venus Aves, on 17 November 2023

…Criminal Justice Reform), “The Challenging Path to Abolishing the Death Penaltyin Indonesia (KontraS),  “Drug Executions: The Politically Costless Victims of the Death Penalty in Iran” (Iran Human Rights),  “Annual…

2023

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Journalists participating in the media parley in Lagos © LEDAP, HURILAWS

Article(s)

Women Sentenced to Death Showcased on the 19th World Day Against the Death Penalty

By Elise Garel, on 3 December 2021

…published. This book gathers the texts of thirty-seven Moroccan writers and intellectuals defending the abolition of the death penalty in Morocco and the reproductions of the works presented in the

2021

Cameroon

Indonesia

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Morocco

Nigeria

Pakistan

Sierra Leone

United States

Women

taiwan supreme court

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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

…defendant, it relies on investigators to provide relevant and necessary information beyond the elements of the defendant’s crime. The investigation into these circumstances involves a wide range of factors, including…

2023

Taiwan

UN Human Rights Council

Article(s)

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

…moratorium on the death penalty in the country. During the Interactive Dialogue with the independent expert on the situation of human rights in the Central African Republic, the abolition of…

2022

Trend Towards Abolition

Article(s)

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

Women sentenced to death: an invisible reality

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

Article(s)

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

Article(s)

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 

United Nations 46th Human Rights Council

Article(s)

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 penaltyThe death penalty was also mentioned during the presentation of the Secretary-General’s report on the situation of human rights in

2022

Article(s)

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)

ACHPR 71st Ordinary Session

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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

World coalition against death penalty

Article(s)

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

Article(s)

Death penalty at the heart of human rights review

By Thomas Hubert, on 5 February 2013

The reports on the ICCPR offer an insight into the death penalty situation in Taiwan. In its submission, the government stated that the official position since 2007 was “to gradually…

2013

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Moratorium

Taiwan

Taiwan

Mid-terms 2023

Article(s)

Mid-terms: A first half of 2023 marked by multiple abolitions

By Nellia Halimi, on 9 October 2023

death penalty in Washington State in 2014” and that the “rationale for that decision was affirmed by the) Supreme Court decision in 2018, when they invalidated the death penalty statute.”…

2023

Ghana

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Kenya

Malaysia

Saudi Arabia

Singapore

Trend Towards Abolition

United States

Uzbekistan

UN Human Rights Council

Article(s)

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

…welcoming Ghana’s acceptance of all the recommendations to abolish the death penalty and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR (OP2-ICCPR). They also included a poem from the “death

2023

Trend Towards Abolition

Article(s)

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 

UN Human Rights Council

Article(s)

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

…of “the most serious crimes” compliance in several countries, both in law and in practice, and to call for the universal abolition of the death penalty. During the panel, the

2023

Public Opinion 

World Coalition Against the Death Penalyt

Article(s)

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

Article(s)

A challenge to the abolitionist movement

By Sandra Babcock, on 16 December 2011

…develop instruments that reinforce the limits on how the death penalty can be applied in practice. Second, donors must fund comprehensive studies on the implementation of the death penalty in

2011

Intellectual Disability

Malawi

Mental Illness

Mexico

Moratorium

United States

DPIC’s Report on the 2020 Death Penalty Usage in the US

Article(s)

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

Article(s)

How to work with international bodies?

By Maria Donatelli, on 10 June 2013

the use of the death penalty throughout the OSCE region on the basis of information provided by the participating states themselves. NGO can submit information to the ODIHR and participate…

2013

Article(s)

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

Article(s)

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 

A country is considered to have repealed the death penalty in practice if it has not executed anyone in 10 years or if the government has officially committed to a moratorium. Image: TAEDP

Article(s)

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

involved indirect intentional homicide. After indirect intentional homicide was integrated into Taiwan’s criminal justice system, and in the spirit of the Covenant, which limits the use of capital punishment to…

2022

Taiwan

intersectionality

Article(s)

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

Understanding the link between the Death Penalty and Torture

Article(s)

International Day in Support of Victims of Torture: Understanding the link between the Death Penalty and Torture

By Wendy Adouki, on 26 June 2023

…a tortuous practice in and of itself.  The current definition of torture in international law excludes the death penalty According to current international standards, the death penalty is not considered…

2023

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Death Row Conditions 

Article(s)

“It’s in Africa that we find the strongest dynamics towards abolition”

By Clémentine Etienne, on 24 April 2018

…will to abolish the death penalty, it did not fail to mention the context in which the issue is evolving, here, in Africa. As part of the round tables and…

2018

World Coalition Against the Death Penalyt

Article(s)

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

United Nations 46th Human Rights Council

Article(s)

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

Article(s)

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

Abolition in Africa- 77th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

Article(s)

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

Ending violence against women 2022

Article(s)

Reflecting on the links between the death penalty and gender-based violence

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 25 November 2022

into account in the abolitionist struggle. In Berlin, the Gender Working Group of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, which brings together member organizations with an interest and/or expertise…

2022

Gender

Kenya

Sri Lanka

Uganda

Women

World Coalition Against the Death Penalty

Article(s)

The 8th World Congress reaffirms the importance of gender-based discussions

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 16 December 2022

the importance of integrating gender into the discussion within the abolitionist movement. Sexual minorities, gender discrimination and the death penalty Questioning the links between gender and the death penalty leads…

2022

Gender

Article(s)

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

Article(s)

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

Article(s)

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

73rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights: In- Person, Advocating Against the Death Penalty

Article(s)

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

…November 2022.  The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, along with the FIACAT (International Federation of ACATs), Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (Uganda), Nigerien Coalition Against the Death Penalty, the

2022

Why is the Death Penalty not the answer to Rape?

Article(s)

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

World Coalition Against the Death Penalty

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)

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

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

…next Regional Congress against the Death Penalty in Africa in 2018 in preparation for the 7th World Congress against the Death Penalty to be held in Brussels in February 2019….

2017

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Article(s)

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

mid term 2022

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

World Coalition Against the Death Penalyt

Article(s)

Bahrain: Joint appeal for commutation and moratorium

By Salam for Democracy and Human Rights, on 13 January 2022

the death penalty[1]. As you are no doubt aware, use of the death penalty is irreversible, while in cases across the globe have shown that mistakes occur in the imposition…

2022

Bahrain

Clemency

Moratorium

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

79th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

Article(s)

Key Outcomes from the 79th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

By Isabella Ataides, on 26 September 2024

…on the Death Penalty organized a notable panel discussion on the death penalty and security, which is the theme of this year’s World Day. The panel featured insights from Dr….

2024

Trend Towards Abolition

75th Ordinary Session of the African Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights

Article(s)

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

…against the death penalty, the Network of Parliamentarians against the death penalty in Morocco and the Network of lawyers against the death penalty will be conducted in the coming days….

2015

Morocco

world day poster

Article(s)

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 

This statement is co-signed by: Amnesty International Capital Punishment Justice Project FIDH – 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

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

…use of the death penalty in Singapore, it is unclear what procedural steps the authorities took in the lead up to the execution warrants being issued in these two cases,…

2024

Singapore

Article(s)

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

Article(s)

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

Are unofficial moratoriums meaningful?

Article(s)

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)

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

their decades of work in that country. Federico Mayor, president of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty, cited the important work of both intergovernmental and civil society organizations, including…

2013

Afghanistan

Belarus

Costa Rica

El Salvador

Italy

Philippines

Senegal

Switzerland

United States

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

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)

Article(s)

Abolitionists fight against the abusive use of the death penalty

By Thalia Gerzso, on 28 November 2017

Penalty The abolitionist mobilization was particularly important for the 15th World Day Against the Death Penalty. On October 10, a dozen of events took place in the country. In addition…

2017

Pakistan

Public Opinion 

Article(s)

Africa raises its voice against the death penalty

By Tiziana Trotta, on 21 October 2016

…media campaign  #Nodeath*]}*penalty to stop the death penalty. This initiative focuses on the large number of innocent people who wrongfully sentenced to death. The campaign includes the video Innocent Sentenced

2016

Terrorism

Article(s)

Morocco’s death penalty takes centre stage at Marrakesh forum

By Thomas Hubert (in Marrakesh, Morocco), on 28 November 2014

…and the growing number of law enforcement professionals and criminologists denouncing its inefficiency to combat crime have been instrumental in curbing the use of the death penalty in the US….

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

…row inmates in Pakistan (particularly in the Punjab region) reports weekly deaths in custody due to poor sanitary conditions, including regular deaths of people on death row. Next, specific training…

2018

Death Row Conditions 

Article(s)

Indonesian activists face upward death penalty trend

on 10 February 2009

Indonesia, and send the wrong message to drug dealers. Ironically, opponents of the death penalty cite the same facts in arguing for abolition. To retain the death penalty when Indonesia’s…

2009

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Drug Offenses

Indonesia

Public Opinion 

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

World Coalition Against the Death Penalyt

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

the way of thinking about the death penalty in international law. The legal field for application of the death penalty in a way in which human rights are not violated…

2011

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Death Row Conditions 

Switzerland

Advocacy at the 69th ACHPR Ordinary Session

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

88th CEDAW Session

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

World Coalition Against the Death Penalyt

Article(s)

Violations of the Right to Life in the Context of Drug Policies

By International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA), Corporación ATS Acción Técnica Social, IDPC Consortium, Washington Office on Latin America, non-governmental organizations in special consultative status, Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN); Capital Punishment Justice Project (CPJP); Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation (CDPE); Cornell Centre on the Death Penalty Worldwide; Eleos Justice - Monash University; Instituto RIA, AC; Iran Human Rights (IHR); World Coalition Against the Death Penalty., NGO(s) without consultative status, also share the views expressed in this statement, on 10 August 2021

…(Re-)introducing the death penalty. Reintroduction of capital punishment for drug offences is discussed in the Philippines and included in a bill recently approved in the lower house of Parliament.(14) This…

2021

Death Row Conditions 

Drug Offenses

Fair Trial

Deathworthy and Trapped Inside reports

Article(s)

Over 8,000 people on death row in South Asia

By Aurelie Placais, staff, on 3 May 2022

in 2022 https://deathpenaltyworldwide.org/, India executed 4 people in 2020, Pakistan 14 in 2019 and there have been no executions in the Maldives and Sri Lanka for over 40 years. Death

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

…of countries that retain the death penalty in the Greater Caribbean to urgently and effectively tackle crime, but without resort to the death penalty”. The call was made by representatives…

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

them have abolished the death penalty in law for all crimes. As for the number of executions, the right to life has met another victory with a 5% decrease in

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

…island, which is a commonwealth of the US, abolished the death penalty in its constitution in 1952 but remains under the threat of capital cases brought by US federal courts….

2014

Puerto Rico