All about Sri Lanka

À maintes reprises, les abolitionnistes ont plaidé contre la peine de mort en soulignant son caractère inhumain, inefficace et injuste.

Time and time again, abolitionists have been making the case against the death penalty, highlighting how inhumane, inefficient and unfair it is.

Les requérants qui contestent la reprise potentielle des exécutions au Sri Lanka ont reçu des nouvelles rassurantes le 23 février 2023, lorsque le procureur général du Sri Lanka a signalé à la Cour suprême que l’actuel président Ranil Wickremesinghe avait accepté de ne pas procéder à des exécutions durant son mandat. 

Petitioners challenging the potential resumption of executions in Sri Lanka experienced received reassuring news on 23 February 2023 when the Attorney General of Sri Lanka reported to the Supreme Court that the incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe has agreed to not implement executions during his tenure.

On 25 November 2022, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, through the testimony of representatives of abolitionist member and partner organizations, wishes to raise awareness of the links between the death penalty and violence against women and gender minorities and call out the unjust and […]

En ce 25 novembre 2022, Journée internationale pour l’élimination de la violence à l’égard des femmes, la Coalition mondiale contre la peine de mort, à travers le témoignage de représentant·es d’organisations abolitionnistes membres et partenaires, souhaite visibiliser les liens entre peine de mort et violences faites aux femmes et aux minorités de genre et dénoncer […]

Avec peu d’exécutions mais l’un des plus grands couloirs de la mort au monde, l’Asie du Sud est à la croisée des chemins. Des publications récentes explorent la santé mentale des personnes condamnées à mort et leur contexte social et économique au Bangladesh, en Inde, aux Maldives, au Pakistan et au Sri Lanka.

With few executions but one of the biggest death rows in the world, South Asia is at a crossroad. Recent publications explore mental health on death row and social and economic background of people sentenced to death in Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

The letter, co-signed by 58 organizations, encourages the President of Sri Lanka to do everything in his power to stop executions in Sri Lanka and consign the death penalty to the history books.

Good news from Sri Lanka: by decision of the President, the death sentences of 60 prisoners have been commuted.

Death penalty for drug crimes in Asia: an illegal practice reveals report published on World Day by FIDH and the World Coalition

World Coalition member, Community of Sant’Egidio, has organised anti-death penalty conferences in Japan and the Philippines, both of which were overwhelmingly attended. Further conferences in the region are set to continue.

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty welcomes the adoption by a growing number of United Nations member States of a fourth resolution calling for a universal moratorium on the use of the death penalty.

A majority of the world’s nations have approved a text calling for a global moratorium on executions, with stronger support than in a previous vote two years ago.