Moratorium on the use of the death penalty. Report of the Secretary-General (2020)

By United Nations Secretary-General, on 1 January 2020

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 […]

Just One More Step: Ratifying International and Regional Protocols

  As of 28 March 2022, 90 of the 173 States parties to the ICCPR have ratified or acceded to its Second Optional Protocol aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, most recently Kazakhstan (24 March 2022), Armenia (18 March 2021), Angola (2 October 2019) and the State of Palestine (18 March 2019). Map […]