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The World Coalition welcomes the adoption by the Lebanese National Assembly of the law abolishing the death penalty on 11 August 2026.

Statement, 30th july 2026 We, the undersigned 46 organizations, write to you today to ask you for your immediate action to end the threat of execution for more than 550 people currently living under sentence of death in California. Your move towards commuting all death sentences in the US state with the highest number of […]

28 July 2026, Statement Ten Years Without Executions We, the undersigned organisations, congratulate President Prabowo Subianto and the Government of Indonesia for reaching the milestone of 10 years without executions. On 29 July 2016, Humphrey Jefferson Ejike Eleweke (Nigeria), Michael Titus Igweh (Nigeria), Freddy Budiman (Indonesia) and Seck Osmane (Senegal) were executed for drug-related crimes. […]

On the occasion of the 2026 International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (World Drug Day) and the Support Don’t Punish Global Day of Action on 26 June, 63 national, regional and international organisations call on the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) and its Member States […]

8 May 2026 Ahead of Singapore’s fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on 12 May 2026, the undersigned organisations call on member states to urge Singapore to end its use of the death penalty and bring its laws and practices into line with international human rights law and standards. We also call on the Government of […]

At a side event on the margins of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 9, The Advocates for Human Rights launched a new tool celebrating countries that have championed the cause of abolition of the death penalty at the Universal Periodic Review. The scorecard highlights the countries that led the world in making […]

A delegation from the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty participated in the annual session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to highlight the often-overlooked realities faced by women in contact with the criminal justice system, including those facing the death penalty.

As of early April, the number of executions carried out by Saudi Arabia since King Salman bin Abdulaziz’s accession to the throne on January 23, 2015—and the subsequent appointment of his son, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, on June 21, 2017—has surpassed 2,000, according to the European Saudi Organization for Human Rights (ESOHR), marking a […]

The Maldives government should withdraw plans to introduce a bill to end the longstanding moratorium on the death penalty in the country, 10 Maldivian and international human rights organizations said today.

STATEMENT 10 April 2026 The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (WCADP) condemns in the strongest possible terms the Death Penalty for Terrorists Law (5786–2026) recently adopted by Israel.