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Member(s)
Mauritanian Coalition Against Death Penalty
on 30 April 2020
The main goals of the Mauritanian Coalition are the fight against death penalty, the defense of the universal human rights ideas, the struggle for equality between people, the promotion of peace in the world, and the cooperation between people. To achieve its goals, the Mauritanian Coalition’s main actions are conferences and workshops, and seminars for […]
2020
Mauritania
Member(s)
Michigan Committee Against Capital Punishment
on 30 April 2020
The Michigan Committee Against Capital Punishment was organized in 1972 for research, publication, testimony and education on the evils of the death penalty. Nowadays, its main actions are legislative testimony, research, publications, film production, public speaking, literature and film distribution and abolitionist activities.
United States
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German Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
on 30 April 2020
The Initiative gegen die Todesstrafe e.V. (German Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty – GCADP) was founded in 1997 and is a non-profit organization since 2000. Our association is committed to the worldwide abolition of the death penalty. Our work is based on the contents of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 as […]
Germany
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Equal Justice USA
on 30 April 2020
Equal Justice USA, founded in 1990, is a national organization that works to transform the justice system by promoting responses to violence that break cycles of trauma. We work at the intersection of criminal justice, public health, and racial justice to elevate healing over retribution, meet the needs of survivors, advance racial equity, and build […]
United States
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Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants (CURE)
on 30 April 2020
Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants (CURE) is a grassroots organization that was founded in Texas in 1972. It became a national organization in 1985. CURE believes that prisons should be used only for those who absolutely must be incarcerated and that those who are incarcerated should have all of the resources they need to […]
United States
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HURILAWS
on 30 April 2020
HURILAWS began operations in 1997 as a specialist provider of human rights legal services and a purveyor of skills in the legal aspects of transition management. Today HURILAWS is also a public policy think tank working towards attainment of development, human rights and good governance. In particular, HURILAWS is the driver of the Multi-Sector Law […]
Nigeria
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Lawyers For Human Rights International (LFHRI)
on 30 April 2020
In the early eighties, a group of lawyers committed to human rights work formed a loose group in order to defend the victims of state repression. In 1992, when the Punjab police and the security agencies who were operating in Punjab started a campaign to harass and kill human rights defenders and the group started […]
India
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Pax Christi Uvira asbl
on 30 April 2020
Pax Christi Uvira is a non-profit association (asbl) created in 2003 in Uvira (Diocese of Uvira) in the province of South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It joins the World Catholic Movement for Peace, PAX CHRISTI INTERNATIONAL, as a local group. It is an NGO under Congolese law (with legal […]
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Colegio de Abogados y Abogadas de Puerto Rico
on 30 April 2020
The Puerto Rico Bar Association (Colegio de Abogados y Abogadas de Puerto Rico) represents all the attorneys in Puerto Rico, and has historically taken a very active role in the public debate. Since 2006 the Bar Association has been part of the World Coalition under the umbrella of the Puertorican Coalition Against the Death Penalty, […]
Puerto Rico
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Association for the Right to Live
on 30 April 2020
The Association for the Right to Life (ARL) was founded in Iran by Emadeddin Baghi, a writer and long-time human rights activist. Baghi was sentenced to three years in prison after writing an article against the death penalty in 2000. After his release, he established two human rights associations: – the Society for the defense […]
Iran (Islamic Republic of)