Academic report
The leaflet on the 2012 World Day provides information on the evolution of the abolition of the death penalty in the past ten years and presents the challenges ahead. It also gives arguments against the death penaty.
Helping the World Achieve a Moratorium on Executions
In 2007, the World Coalition made one of the most important decisions in its young history: to support the Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty as a step towards universal abolition. A moratorium is temporary suspension of executions and, more rarely, of death sentences. […]
World Day
20th World Day Against the Death Penalty – Death penalty: a road paved with torture
As the 20th World Day Against the Death Penalty is marked around the world, now is a time to consider and celebrate the gains the abolitionist movement has made over the past 20 years. Now, more than ever, abolitionist actors need to continue working towards the complete abolition of the death penalty worldwide, for all […]
