INDEX

Article(s)
The Death Penalty Does Not Make Us Safer
By Witness to Innocence, on 24 January 2025
Witness to Innocence Responds to President Trump’s Executive Order on the Death Penalty, and Organizations from throughout the US and the World Sign-on in Solidarity
2025
United States

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Singapore: End harassment and intimidation of Transformative Justice Collective
By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 17 January 2025
We, the undersigned 11 organizations, condemn in the strongest terms the latest restrictions imposed by the Singapore government on activists from the Transformative Justice Collective (TJC), a civil society group actively opposing the death penalty and advocating for human rights in the country.
2025
Singapore

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81st Ordinary Session of the African Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights: In- Person, Advocating Against the Death Penalty
By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 7 January 2025
The ACHPR (African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights) held its 81st Public Ordinary Session in Banjul, The Gambia, from 17 October – 6 November 2024.
2025
Angola
Burkina Faso
Ethiopia
Mauritius
Trend Towards Abolition

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Zimbabwe Abolishes the Death Penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 6 January 2025
On 31 December 2024, Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed the Death Penalty Abolition Bill into law.
2025
Zimbabwe

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Zambia commits to irreversible abolition of the death penalty for all crimes
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 23 December 2024
Zambia has acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, which is the UN treaty aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, on 19 December 2024.
2024
Zambia

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Two thirds of the United Nations General Assembly vote in favor of the 10th resolution for a moratorium on the death penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 20 December 2024
On 17 December 2024, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 10th resolution for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty with 130 votes in favor out of the 193 United Nations Member States (5 more than in 2022), 32 votes against (5 less than in 2022), 22 abstentions and 9 absent.
2024
Moratorium
Trend Towards Abolition

Article(s)
Singapore: Authorities must end human rights crackdown and unlawful drug related executions
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 2 December 2024
We, the undersigned seven organizations, are greatly alarmed at the deteriorating human rights situation in Singapore. Abstract of a joint statement published on 31 October 2024. To read the full statement.
2024
Drug Offenses
Singapore

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Abolitionist advocacy at the 89th CEDAW Session
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 2 December 2024
The 89th session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) took place in Geneva, Switzerland, from 7 to 25 October 2024.
Gender
Women

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Collective reflection to support women and LGBTQIA+ people facing the death penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 2 December 2024
The Gender and the Death Penalty seminar organized by the World Coalition in Philadelphia in September 2024 enabled to explore new abolitionist strategies. The event brought together organizations from 11 countries for stimulating exchanges.
Gender
Women

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Access to justice and discrimination: the World Coalition organizes a briefing for the UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 26 September 2024
2024
Gender