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…under 18 and pregnant women from this punishment (in paragraph 5) and they recommended that it be abolished by stipulating (in paragraph 6) that none of the provisions in paragraph…

…obliges a country in all circumstances to ensure it exposes no one to the real risk of execution. Would the death penalty be abolished definitely in a State party? Is…

…inhuman and degrading punishment” said Altantuya Batdorj, Executive Director of Amnesty International Mongolia. Three countries – Fiji, Madagascar and Suriname- have already abolished the death penalty this year. Earlier this…

…exclaiming, how could they have de facto abolished capital punishment? – and pushing for more capital sentences and executions. We are thus not hopeful about this milestone extending into 2022….

…the intersession period: 46 member States have abolished the death penalty (23 in law and 23 in practice). The president expressed his concerns about Tunisia, which sentenced to death dozens…

…at the global level. The death penalty is “remote from humanity” Angola’s Justice Minister Guilhermina Prata said that her country abolished the death penalty in 1992 after it became a…

…island, which is a commonwealth of the US, abolished the death penalty in its constitution in 1952 but remains under the threat of capital cases brought by US federal courts….

…and political will on the other hand. We are in the same situation as France when it abolished the death penalty with President Mitterrand and Minister Badinter. Some people are…

…penalty regulations in California. “As the letter from our member in Togo, which had abolished the death penalty just a few days before, was read in French in the capital…

…focus this year’s World Day Against the Death Penalty (10 October) on the Caribbean owes nothing to chance. While most states in the region have abolished the death penalty in…

…states are abolitionist: 22 have abolished in law and 18 have a de facto moratorium on executions.  This trend is confirmed by the increase in votes by African states in…

…Governor Jared Polis stated when announcing the commutations. Two thirds of the US States have now either abolished the death penalty in law or not carried out executions in at…

…(in 2011 and 2015). The state had abolished the death penalty in 1990. From a legal perspective, the ratification of OP2 makes the resumption of the death penalty impossible in…

…that have abolished the death penalty in law or practice globally. A minority of countries, 36, voted against the proposal and 30 abstained at the vote. For the first time,…

…end of 2019, 106 countries (a majority of the world’s states) had abolished the death penalty in law for all crimes, and 142 countries (more than two-thirds) had abolished the…

…An Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, wrote in the Philadelphia Inquirer on April 2, 2008, that the “courts have altered the rules just to keep Abu-Jamal…

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…doing business with a state, keep human rights issues in mind. Legal, financial and lobbying efforts The delegates also discussed the importance of the international community in stressing that the…

…is up to the youth to stand up and protest when countries keep using the death penalty. Today’s youth is a bit selfish, young people tend to focus on issues…

…the World Day Against the Death Penalty a grass-roots event, with educational and militant actions being prepared worldwide. Just keep an eye on the World Day section on this site…

…12-year analysis of “Women and the Death Penalty in Iran”, which provides further information and background on this issue.   Positive key facts to keep in mind For thefirst time…

…of the WCADP “Iranian authorities, eager to keep the death penalty, are quick to point out that they are carrying out the will of the people, claiming that the death…

…program or classes, there is no point. There is no purpose in going out [of the ward]. I just keep to myself. My family used to come for open visits…

…Rights). According to Amiry-Moghaddam, “the people in Iran might face a mass execution” for Iran to keep their political repression intact. As Jean Asselborn (8th World Congress participant, Minister of…

…and “sentencing illegality” keep coming up and has been a matter of discussion for a long time. As Taiwan gradually incorporates international human rights conventions into its laws, the fundamental…

…religious pushback than political Maintaining an unofficial moratorium is a low-risk but high-reward choice for governments that wish to keep capital punishment as a political tool at home while winning…

…protest for Amnesty International France, urges the public to keep signing the petition addressed to the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles, “even though it had turned a blind…

…the largest population on death row, with 670 inmates. The CCFAJ found that the average delay between sentence and execution was over 20 years. “Just to keep cases moving at…

…Mongolia could not keep using a punishment that “degrades human dignity”. He referred to the global trend towards abolition, including at the United Nations, and said: “The State of Mongolia…

On 4 March 2009, Canada’s Federal Court ordered the government to continue diplomatic action in favour of Ronald Smith, the only Canadian national on death row in the US (photo)….

…international community puts pressure on one specific case, the authorities give up on that case, because individual cases do not matter to them: as long as they keep the number…

…safe from judicial error and innocent people are likely to be sentenced to death. –    It is inefficient and does not keep society safe. It has never been conclusively shown…

…death,” said Robert Dunham, DPIC’s Executive Director. “Across the political spectrum, more people are coming to the view that there are better ways to keep us safe than executing a…

…Optional Protocol to the ICCPR aiming at the abolition of the death penalty and Kenyan judges keep issuing death sentences. That is why abolitionists’ work remains more important than ever….

…Human Rights denounced Iran’s unclear legislation on child executions and stated: “The widespread practice in Iran is to keep a minor convicted of a capital crime in prison until s/he…

…sentence, but she begged us to keep them secret and make sure he could not be identified because she had received threats that her other children would be targeted if…

…The members of ImpactIran say increased coordination has helped them achieve a wider international reach and stronger impact through joint submissions to the UN – and they will keep up…

…abolitionists, and putting more pressure on those countries that keep capital punishment in their legislation. Equally, the Coalition aims to create a network of abolitionist players and to support them. …

…January Supreme Court decision according to which it is unconstitutional to keep a person on death row for more than three years. The court argued that any longer term would…

…in 2009. Even though the government intends to keep the death penalty there are positive signs that it is moving away from capital punishment. Vietnam has shown positive action towards…

…Ma on March 12. American law professor and World Coalition treasurer Speedy Rice, who visited President Ma two years ago and was told that Taiwan would keep moving towards abolition,…

…these stories, raise awareness among people. Let’s keep this flame alive after we leave here, let’s unite in our various projects.” Message from Mongolian President Elbegdorj Tsakhia: “As the Head…

…of the death penalty. In the Philippines, two webinars were organized by local NGO Karapatan and the Commission on Human Rights, with the latter launching a research study titled “In…

…to abstention. The Philippines moved from a positive vote to abstention while the Maldives regrettably moved from abstention to a negative vote.  A smaller but very active group of hard…

The report assesses the situation of the death penalty in several countries: Angola; Belarus; Bahrain; Egypt; India; Iran; Iraq; Japan; Libya; Malaysia; Mauritania; Pakistan; Papua New Guinea; the Philippines; Qatar;…

…as the National Human Rights Commission of Mexico and the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines, declared their opposition to the death penalty in statements issued on the World…

…accused of using or selling drugs in the Philippines. Worrying signs that Indonesia may be adopting a similar violent response, and the explicit support for President Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’…

…Rights the NGO forum –    Organisation of advocacy missions in target countries –    Organisation of advocacy missions to the African Union Countries at risk (Maldives, Philippines, Turkey): –    Training of…

…Coalition Against the Death Penalty Philippines. With the support of our members, the World Coalition also organized an online discussion on the link between torture and the death penalty with…

…attended the meeting. These include representatives of organisations and individual members from Australia, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand….

…Assembly will consider a draft resolution calling for a global moratorium on executions. Angola, Albania, Brazil, Croatia, Gabon, Mexico, the Philippines, Portugal (for the EU) and New Zealand are presenting…

…punishment in Asia. A second part consists of “National Profiles” on the death penalty in Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and China. A final section draws lessons from the…

…panellists from other abolitionist countries, including Rwanda and the Philippines. Carmen Hertz, director of human rights at the Chilean ministry of foreign affairs, announced that her country would soon repeal…

…Duly Brutus (Haiti), José Antonio Meade Kuribreña (Mexico), Luvsanvandan Bold (Mongolia), Børge Brende (Norway), Albert F. del Rosario (Philippines), Didier Burkhalter (Switzerland), Mevlüt Çavusoglu (Turkey), Philip Hammond (United Kingdom) Illustration:…

…Malaysia and Singapore have continued to execute people in 2015. The situation is particularly worrisome in Indonesia, where death penalty is widely enforced for drug-related offenses, and in the Philippines,…

…Commission on Human rights of the Philippines, the Centre of Global Nonkilling and Amnesty International. In Amnesty’s statement they condemned the use of the death penalty in all circumstances, highlighting…

…death in the country. Philippines’ civil society led by FLAG Task Force, used the opportunity to bring awareness of death penalty to senators and members of House of Representatives in…

Reinstating the death penalty would violate Philippine’s international legal obligations, in particular, the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which the country has ratified….

…incredible atrocities took place, but they still cancelled the DP for all crimes. Some 20 years ago, only 16 countries had abolished the DP; today the number has increased to…

…is abolished. No one shall be executed.” The bill seeks to replace capital punishment with life imprisonment in Algerian law. Once vetted by the Committee of Algeria’s National Popular Assembly,…

…opposes death penalty.” On Dec 2007, the UN General Assembly adopted at a large majority a resolution to introduce a moratorium on executions that requires states that already abolished the…

…times of peace . Death penalty is now abolished in the Italy, for every crime, under any circumstances, including war, and for ever. Click here to read an analysis of…

…itself as the death penalty was last applied in 1930 and was abolished for all crimes in 1979. However, the 1987 National Constitution states, in its article 23, that “the…

…the Hong Kong Legislative Council, stressed that Hong Kong has abolished the death penalty in 1993 and that the crime rate has been decreasing in the past ten years. “Changes…

…of public security also offered to reduce the number of capital offences “in keeping with a general, global trend”. In December 2007 and 2008, Vietnam abstained from the vote on…

…the United Nations General Assembly has called for a worldwide moratorium on executions and the State of New Jersey has abolished the death penalty. In the same time four more…

…Abuja, Nigeria in November 2008.  The text notes that “27 State Parties to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights  have already in law or de facto abolished the…

Uzbekistan abolished the death penalty on 1 January 2008 when the Supreme Court confirmed a presidential decree signed on 1 August 2005. The Community of Sant’Egidio and the Association of…

…Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Currently, 29 states which have abolished the death penalty in law have not yet ratified the Second Optional Protocol, the…

…well as the fact that the Minister of Justice has publicly expressed his personal conviction that the death penalty should be abolished in Morocco at the time when the Ministry…

…Although Puerto Rico abolished the death penalty in 1929, the US federal government has been trying to reintroduce it on repeated occasions. Puerto Ricans have remained strong and have begun…

…stressed that the death penalty in itself could not be abolished according to Islamic law. A legal scholar explained that capital punishment is enjoined in the Koran by the word…

…to have the death penalty abolished, alongside other national organisations, appears set to bear fruit: under pressure from the United Nations, a bill to abolish the death penalty has recently…

…takes place every year on the anniversary of the day Tuscany abolished the death penalty in 1786. It was the first time a state decided to do away with capital…

…at regional level. A second press conference took place in Porto Rico on 4 October. Although it abolished the death penalty in 1929, the country, which is administratively associated with…

…ECPM board member, “The international community considers that Morocco has abolished the death penalty in practice; it is a country that deserves abolition”. Each of the speakers then justified abolition…

…it was not until now that capital punishment was formally abolished. The expected next steps for Malawi will be the resentencing of current death row prisoners and any relevant statutes…

…including 20 member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, have abolished the death penalty. But Saudi Arabia is still one of the largest executors in the world. The organisations…

…view to abolishing capital punishment, the Draft Constitution is currently before the National Assembly. Fiji: Call to Ratify OP2-ICCPR The country, which has abolished the death penalty for all crime…

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. State delegations, international and…

…several retentionist states aiming to influence the draft text of the resolution. In the final resolution, the Council called upon States that have not yet abolished the death penalty to…

…decided at the 124th ordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers held on 09 February, 2024, and made public in the circular note of the Minister of Justice and Keeper…