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A new decline in the use of the death penalty in the US in 2016
By Elise Guillot, on 17 January 2017
…Death Penalty Focus, explains “why the California vote matters” and recalls that California has the largest death row in the US, with 749 prisoners. While the abolition of the death…
2017
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Public Opinion
United States
Article(s)
Discussing the Death Penalty for Drug Crimes at the Human Rights Council
By Elisa Bellotti, on 30 September 2015
…and the implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty. One of its conclusion is that the imposition of the death penalty is…
2015
Drug Offenses
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World Day: everybody stands up against the death penalty!
on 27 September 2007
…and lawyers to the campus; in Togo, the African Forum Against the Death Penalty is showing a film, followed by a general discussion on the death penalty; in Germany, a…
2007
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Germany
Morocco
Peru
Portugal
Puerto Rico
United States
Yemen
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Arab spring at the heart of World Coalition debates
on 26 June 2011
…doesn’t ban the death penalty, contrary to other constitutions or the international protocol,” said Mostafa Znaidi of the Moroccan Coalition Against the Death Penalty. Jaber underlined the positive and negative…
2011
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Iraq
Morocco
Terrorism
Tunisia
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Children of people sentenced to death attract the UN’s attention
By Léa Macarez, on 19 September 2013
…the imposition or implementation of the death penalty on the rights of the children of parents sentenced to death or executed. You pressed States to give these children the protection…
2013
Juveniles
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Statement on the occasion of the International Human Rights Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 December 2020
…the Third Committee vote for a moratorium to reconsider their position at the next vote in mid-December 2020. Finally, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty commends the efforts of…
2020
Moratorium
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Joint statement of the death penalty in Japan
By Center for Prisoners' Rights and Japan Innocence & Death Penalty Information Center, on 30 March 2018
…the death penalty inappropriate. A temporary moratorium is also inappropriate, since the final judgement must be executed impartially and thoroughly under the rule of law.” It is clear that the…
2018
Japan
Ending the Death Penalty in Africa
on 10 June 2022
…Union member States, 26 have abolished the death penalty in law, 15 are applying a long-term moratorium on executions while 15 retain capital punishment. Chad abolished the death penalty in…
2022
Angola
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What China’s report to the United Nations tells us about transparency and the death penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 28 June 2024
…more crimes, in line with the abolition of the death penalty for 13 non-violent economic crimes in the 2011 Amendment (VIII) to the Criminal Law”. However, the expression “death penalty”…
2024
China
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Statement on the end of the unofficial moratorium on executions in Myanmar
By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 11 August 2022
…abolition of the death penalty. The World Coalition and the 32 co-signatories further condemn the arbitrary use of the death penalty and the violation of an incredible number of international…
2022
Moratorium
Myanmar
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ADPAN network keeps up abolitionist fight
By Anti-Death Penalty Asian Network (ADPAN), on 10 October 2012
…the Asia-Pacific region have abolished the death penalty for all crimes; Fiji has abolished it for ordinary crimes only, 10 are abolitionist in practice and 13 retain the death penalty….
2012
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Death penalty 2018: Dramatic fall in global executions
By Amnesty International, on 10 April 2019
…all.” At the end of 2018, 106 countries had abolished the death penalty in law for all crimes and 142 countries had abolished the death penalty in law or practice….
2019
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Justice ministers meet as Colosseum lights up to say yes to life
By Community of Sant'Egidio, on 10 December 2012
…ago to abolish the death penalty. After the Asian nation acceded to the United Nations Protocol on the abolition of the death penalty in June, the Parliament has presented a…
2012
Benin
Burundi
Central African Republic
France
Gabon
Italy
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Mongolia
Public Opinion
Switzerland
Togo
United States
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Zimbabwe
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Terrorism is no excuse for unfair trials in Iraq
By Elisa Belotti, on 25 November 2015
…death penalty”. This is what the NGO the Advocates for Human Rights, in collaboration with the Iraqi Coalition against the Death Penalty, stated in their submission to the Committee. The…
2015
Fair Trial
Iraq
Iraq
Terrorism
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Arab League Summit: the death penalty at the heart of the alternative summit organized by civil society
By Hédia Zaalouni, on 10 May 2019
…International’s regional office) and finally on the issue of the death penalty. In this regard, the Tunisian coalition against the death penalty through Chokri Latif presented a precise overview of…
2019
Tunisia
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Abolitionist movement shifts up a gear in Morocco
By Thomas Hubert, on 20 December 2013
…party PJD, which opposes abolition, attended part of the proceedings. “The objective was to include the issue of the death penalty in the reform of the Penal Code, which is…
2013
Mental Illness
Morocco
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Violations of the Right to Life in the Context of Drug Policies
By International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA), Corporación ATS Acción Técnica Social, IDPC Consortium, Washington Office on Latin America, non-governmental organizations in special consultative status, Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN); Capital Punishment Justice Project (CPJP); Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation (CDPE); Cornell Centre on the Death Penalty Worldwide; Eleos Justice - Monash University; Instituto RIA, AC; Iran Human Rights (IHR); World Coalition Against the Death Penalty., NGO(s) without consultative status, also share the views expressed in this statement, on 10 August 2021
…nationals has been linked to prejudice and ethnic discrimination.(11) Reintroduction/expansion of the death penalty for drug offences. Art.6 ICCPR prohibits abolitionist countries from reintroducing the death penalty and from expanding…
2021
Death Row Conditions
Drug Offenses
Fair Trial
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How Likely Is the Return of the Death Penalty in Israel?
By World Coalition against the Death Penalty, on 22 May 2023
…the abolition of death penalty. After the occupation of the Palestinian Territories following the 1967 War, Israel declared that the military courts it established there could impose the death penalty….
2023
Israel
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Kazakhstan Penal Code reform runs counter to abolitionist trend
By Anne Souléliac (Paris Bar), on 22 July 2014
…UN Protocol on the abolition of the death penalty. Since 2002, the government has pursued the policy of phasing out the application of death penalty. In 2007, Kazakhstan amended its…
2014
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Terrorism
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Plans to carry out arbitrary executions in Myanmar must halt immediately
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty , on 23 June 2022
…country’s death penalty and deeply concerning human rights record, and would be contrary to the stated goal of abolition of the death penalty set out in Article 6(6) of the…
2022
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Fair Trial
Legal Representation
Myanmar
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TAIWAN: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT TO HEAR CHALLENGE TO DEATH PENALTY LAW
By World coalition against the death penalty, Amnesty International, on 23 April 2024
…Against the Death Penalty are among several non-governmental organizations intervening in the case, in support of the full abolition of the death penalty. The constitutional challenge arises from the case…
2024
Taiwan
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E Book review: a guidebook to the death penalty in Asia
on 10 March 2009
The Next Frontier is a study of the death penalty in Asia. The title derives from the belief of the authors that “Asia is the next frontier in the two…
2009
China
Japan
Philippines
Republic of Korea
Taiwan
Viet Nam
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The 6th International Conference on Human Rights issues a warning on the alarming situation in Bahrain
By Emmanuel Trépied and Coalition marocaine contre la peine de mort, on 10 March 2017
…stated on the report calling for the establishment of an official moratorium and for the abolition of the death penalty. The authors of the report urged the authorities of Bahrain…
2017
Bahrain
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Fair Trial
Moratorium
Terrorism
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New Hampshire: 21st State to Abolish the Death Penalty in the USA
By Aurelie Placais, on 12 June 2019
…the result of the legislature recognizing the voices of family member of murder victims opposed to the death penalty, the voices of law enforcement opposed to the death penalty, and…
2019
United States
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Drug policy reform, harm reduction movement and the death penalty abolition movement have much in common
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 26 June 2019
…Lanka. Aurelie Placais, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty presented stories of women facing the death penalty for drug related offenses in Iran, Indonesia, insisting on the specific discrimination they…
2019
Drug Offenses
Article(s)
Iran: 2016 a deadly year despite a slight decrease in the executions
By Iran Human Rights, on 6 April 2017
…and spokesperson, said: “We welcome any reduction in the use of the death penalty. But, unfortunately, there are no indications that the relative decrease in the number of the executions…
2017
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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Mexican executed in Texas
on 5 August 2008
…on the case prior to the trial. The defense attorney failed to oppose the selection of jurors who indicated that they would automatically impose the death penalty and called no…
2008
Legal Representation
Mexico
United States
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Suriname and Haiti to lead abolitionist way in the Caribbean
By Thomas Hubert (in San Juan, Puerto Rico), on 27 June 2014
…the Paris-based NGO Together Against the Death Penalty added that the authorities of Haiti, which has abolished the death penalty, gave him assurances during a country visit in June that…
2014
Barbados
Haiti
Jamaica
Puerto Rico
Suriname
Suriname
Trinidad and Tobago
Just One More Step: Ratifying International and Regional Protocols
on 28 March 2022
…aiming at the abolition of the death penalty. 2025: American Protocol 35th anniversary of the adoption of the Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death…
2022
Central African Republic
Chad
Congo
Fiji
Ghana
Marshall Islands
Samoa
Sierra Leone
Suriname
Zambia
Article(s)
Abolitionists support death row survivors
By Thalia Gerzso, on 14 November 2017
…death row survivors can successfully reintegrate into society and for some of them, advocate for the abolition of the death penalty. Death row survivors against the death penalty Death row…
2017
Innocence
Murder Victims' Families
Article(s)
East African Seminar on Best Practices in Kenya: A Key Gathering for the Abolitionist Movement on the Continent
By Wendy Adouki, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 15 August 2023
…of abolishing the death penalty, and how to build an advocacy mission and manage potential obstacles. To underpin these reflections, some of the participants gave presentations outlining the death penalty…
2023
Kenya
Trend Towards Abolition
Article(s)
How the Death Penalty is Politicized: A Reflection on the 8th World Congress Against the Death Penalty
By Dunia Schaffa, on 27 January 2023
…death penalty for their own political ambitions. Lastly, the death penalty becomes a political tool to dehumanize people. This is possible through “othering” people, making them the enemy or the…
2023
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
United States
Article(s)
Teng Biao: Olympics an opportunity to put pressure on the Chinese authorities”
on 13 February 2008
…discuss the death penalty? At the moment, most of them only have government-controlled information about the death penalty. But when they can discuss it freely, their opinion will change. More…
2008
China
Innocence
Public Opinion
Article(s)
The abolitionists’ forum in Niger: a great success
By Garba Illou Almoctar and Elise Guillot, on 22 November 2016
…terrorism, Islam’s and Christianity’s perspectives on the death penalty, the abolition of the death penalty worldwide and the Nigerien situation, strategies to encourage the abolition of the death penalty. The…
2016
Niger
Public Opinion
Terrorism
Article(s)
Europe launches diplomatic offensive against the death penalty
on 10 October 2008
…of the death penalty. The presidents of the European Parliament, of the Council and of the European Commission, on the EU side, and the president of the Parliamentary Assembly, the…
2008
Lebanon
Uganda
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Malaysian popular support for mandatory death penalty overstated
By Thomas Hubert, on 10 July 2013
…people. “While those who wish to retain the death penalty, known as ‘retentionists’, continue to call for the imposition of the death penalty, especially in relation to murder, rape and…
2013
Malaysia
Public Opinion
Article(s)
The 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty Highlights the Life-Saving Importance of Effective Legal Representation in Capital Cases
By Gia Tongson, on 18 November 2020
The 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty explored the theme “Access to Counsel: A Matter of Life or Death” in light of the continued execution of individuals who struggle…
2020
Australia
Belgium
Canada
Congo
Egypt
Fair Trial
France
Kazakhstan
Philippines
Portugal
Uganda
Article(s)
Unfair trials and the death penalty for terrorism in Iraq
By Majdoulin Sendadi, on 13 January 2020
…executions and the death of their brothers. They strongly wished for their brothers to be repatriated and if found guilty, they did not ask for impunity, they just want them…
2020
Iraq
Terrorism
Article(s)
How far is China ready to reduce its use of the death penalty?
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 25 November 2013
…the Chinese government systematically rejected recommendations on the use of the death penalty and the independence of the judiciary and lawyers. Then on 12 November 2013, the UN General Assembly…
2013
China
Clemency
Drug Offenses
Terrorism
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The Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines launches a campaign against the reinstatement of the death penalty in the country
By Thalia Gerzso, on 26 October 2017
…did not prevent the House of Representatives to approve on third and final reading the bill restoring the death penalty in the country. The Commission on Human Rights of the…
2017
Philippines
Public Opinion
Article(s)
The death penalty at the heart of the debates of the 62nd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
By Guillaume Colin - Jessica Corredor, on 15 May 2018
…all crimes. Gambia’s representant also took the floor to remind the commitments made by The Gambia in favour of the abolition of the death penalty. The day before the panel,…
2018
Mauritania
Public Opinion
Article(s)
68th Ordinary Session African Commission on Human & Peoples’ Rights- Anti-Death Penalty Advocacy Continues
By Bronwyn Dudley, on 11 June 2021
…on the death penalty and women – the theme of the 2021 World Day Against the Death Penalty. The resolution called for the abolition of the death penalty in Africa…
2021
Terrorism
Women
Article(s)
New conservative voices crucial in New Hampshire repeal campaign
By Thomas Hubert, on 26 February 2014
…historic policy. The first call on the legislature to repeal the death penalty was from the “anti-gallows movement” in 1834. This is the end run. I think the World Coalition…
2014
United States
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UPR 36th Session Debriefed on Facebook Live
By Louis Linel, on 17 November 2020
…Then, the government delegation may be given the floor to provide other States with oral answers. Stage three consists of the drafting and the adoption of the review report in…
2020
Belarus
Jamaica
Liberia
Libya
Malawi
Maldives
United States
Article(s)
Teaching abolition in Taiwan
on 9 December 2009
…still unsure if the death penalty should be abolished, they all recognize the complexity of each crime and the cruelty of the death penalty. Promoting abolition through education From my…
2009
Public Opinion
Taiwan
Taiwan
Article(s)
The United Nations Human Rights Council votes in favor of a new resolution on the death penalty
By Jessica Corredor, on 4 October 2017
…the context of the death penalty. An entire part of the report focuses on socio-economic discriminations which echoes the World Day Against the Death Penalty’s theme: the death penalty and…
2017
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Article(s)
California ruling paves way for abolition of one of the world’s largest death rows
By Elizabeth Zitrin, on 18 July 2014
…of the ACLU of Northern California, who was the campaign manager of the SAFE California campaign to replace the death penalty in 2012, said the ruling marked “the first time…
2014
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
United States
Article(s)
Abolitionist activities, criminal policy at the heart of abolition
By Clémentine Etienne, on 1 August 2018
…• The implementation of a profound reform of the criminal legal arsenal, exempt from the death penalty; • The implementation of the recommendations of the UN committees concerning the ratification…
2018
Fair Trial
Morocco
Article(s)
Call for tenders for the contracting of travel management services
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 15 June 2021
…local authorities, and trade unions. The aim of the World Coalition is to strengthen the international dimension of the fight against the death penalty. Its ultimate goal is the universal…
2021
Article(s)
Kenya’s new taskforce to review death penalty laws
By Nicolas Chua, on 11 September 2018
…of the legislative framework surrounding the death penalty. Taskforce on the Review of the Mandatory Nature of the Death Penalty On March 15 2018, Attorney-General Githu Muigai appointed the Taskforce…
2018
Kenya
Article(s)
The death penalty at the heart of ACHPR debates
on 18 May 2012
…country for the universal abolition of the death penalty. It will then be an encouraging example at the regional level. 16 Member States of the African Union have abolished the…
2012
Angola
Burundi
Gabon
Moratorium
Rwanda
Somalia
South Sudan
Sudan
Togo
Article(s)
Executions for drug crimes: a violation of international law -international organizations
By Tiziana Trotta, on 15 October 2015
…not include language on the death penalty” because of their unequivocal opposition to the death penalty in all circumstances, and because they considered that the death penalty undermined human dignity…
2015
Drug Offenses
Article(s)
Democratic Republic of the Congo: the abolitionists organize workshops for journalists
By Thalia Gerzso, on 25 September 2017
…of the death penalty. Over the last few years, the debate on the abolition of the death penalty in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has not been prolific. To…
2017
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Public Opinion
Article(s)
CEDAW experts welcome World Coalition members in the #CEDAW86 side event on gender and the death penalty
By Venus Aves, on 8 November 2023
…since World Day Against the Death Penalty 2021, dedicated to the invisible reality of women on death row, with the coordination and support of The Advocates for Human Rights, around…
2023
Gender
Article(s)
Parliamentarians from French-speaking Africa commit to the abolition of the death penalty
By Jessica Corredor, on 17 January 2017
…death penalty and the fight against crime, against terrorism or the death penalty and torture were discussed. The seminar was also the occasion of strengthening the connections among the World…
2017
Article(s)
What now for Mumia?
on 28 April 2008
…finds that the death penalty was wrongfully imposed. Mumia is pleased with this part of the ruling because it could help others on death rows across America. The prosecution now…
2008
Fair Trial
United States
Article(s)
A Very Moving and Inspiring Closing Ceremony
By Dunia Schaffa, on 30 January 2023
…the death penalty worldwide. We are inspired by the speakers we listened to, by the quality of the debates, the wealth of information shared and the solidarity within the movement.” …
2023
Trend Towards Abolition
Article(s)
Explaining the Death Penalty for Drug Offences: the Best Reports
By Elisa Bellotti, on 2 November 2015
…both in principle and in practice. The report also dismantles, point by point, the main common justifications for imposing the death penalty. It explains how the death penalty for drug…
2015
Drug Offenses
Article(s)
USA: showing the human face of the death penalty
By Tiziana Trotta, on 14 October 2015
…the death penalty. “We are living proof that the death penalty is broken beyond repair” Witness to Innocence, the national organization of wrongly convicted and exonerated death row survivors, also…
2015
Murder Victims' Families
United States
Article(s)
The United States Supreme Court’s End of Term Death Penalty Opinion is Against the US Trend Away from the Capital Punishment
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 14 July 2015
The death penalty has been a focus of attention in the United States in recent weeks and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty takes the opportunity to support the…
2015
Moratorium
United States
Article(s)
Marc Bossuyt: “Countries that have not signed up to the Protocol should feel isolated”
By Pierre Désert, on 27 June 2008
…to execute it. The first paragraph of Article 1 is directed at the State parties as they must take all the necessary steps to abolish the death penalty in their…
2008
Article(s)
Calling on international bodies to condemn drug executions in Saudi Arabia and seek to stop them
By European Saudi Organization for Human Rights, on 1 December 2022
…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…
2022
Drug Offenses
Saudi Arabia
Article(s)
Escalating concerns over the lives of minors threatened with death in Saudi Arabia
on 3 May 2024
…specify the nature of the sentences issued against them, but they are likely taazir sentences. The undersigned organizations believe that the approval of new death sentences against minors exposes the…
2024
Juveniles
Saudi Arabia
Article(s)
World Coalition Publishes Country Mapping Report on Women on Death Row
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 8 September 2023
…members of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (World Coalition) conducted research to document the situation of women on death row in their countries. WOMEN ARE ON DEATH ROW…
2023
Women
Article(s)
“Frightening” increase of executions in Iran
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 20 June 2024
…death for the manufacture and possession of approximately 6.2 kilograms of crystal meth. The judge sentences these defendants to death by focusing on their confessions during the investigation phase—and by…
2024
Drug Offenses
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Article(s)
Calling Upon the Council of Paris to Overhaul Bahrain-Owned Paris FC’s Subsidy
By Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain, on 5 February 2021
…the stakes related to human rights and the abolition of the death penalty. The Mairie de Paris is one of the oldest partners of the Paris FC, and has a…
2021
Bahrain
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Moratorium
Article(s)
The Undercurrent: How we took part in the 7th World Congress Against the Death Penalty
By Wang Peiqi (Executive Secretary of the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP)), on 7 October 2019
…since they have already abolished the death penalty. Rather, they are working for others, spending time and money to help others, you just feel very grateful. Their work benefits the…
2019
Taiwan
Article(s)
World Drugs Day: UNODC must act to stop the use of death penalty for drug-related offences and urge states to end executions
By Amnesty International, Harm Reduction International, Iran Human Rights, Transformative Justice Collective, on 27 June 2023
…today by UNODC, once again omits any mention to the application of the death penalty for drug-related offences. Achieving the abolition of the death penalty demands concentrated and combined efforts…
2023
Drug Offenses
Article(s)
Activists from Burundi, Rwanda and DR Congo join forces
on 3 December 2008
…the recent book on the death penalty in the region, to university libraries across the three countries. The distribution will associate political leaders and the media at local book-launch events….
2008
Burundi
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Moratorium
Rwanda
Article(s)
Philippines’ Major Setback as Abolitionist Leader in South-East Asia
By Dinda Royhan, on 23 January 2020
In 2006, the Philippines abolished the death penalty for all crimes. A year later, the country gained the reputation of a regional leader in the campaign against death penalty for…
2020
Philippines
Article(s)
Renewed calls for the abolition of the death penalty at the NGO forum and the 59th Session of the ACHPR
By Jessica Corredor, on 25 November 2016
…on the death penalty on the second day of the NGO Forum. Upon the discussion, a draft resolution on the death penalty was submitted to the ACHPR by the Forum,…
2016
Gambia
Moratorium
Public Opinion
Article(s)
Abolitionist advocacy at the 89th CEDAW Session
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 2 December 2024
…to support the moratorium on the use of the death penalty, noting that the upcoming World Day Against the Death Penalty could be an opportunity for such a commitment. The…
2024
Gender
Women
Article(s)
Singapore must stop targeting HR defenders and media
By Aliran et al (Malaysiakini), on 20 February 2020
…– abolish the death penalty. ________________________________________ The above is a joint statement from Aliran, Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (Adpan), Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (Afad), Association of Parents of Disappeared…
2020
Singapore
22nd World Day Against the Death Penalty – The death penalty protects no one.
on 12 June 2024
…call for the universal abolition of capital punishment. The day encourages and consolidates the political and general awareness of the worldwide movement against the death penalty. On 10 October 2024…
2024
Public Opinion
Trend Towards Abolition
Article(s)
ASEAN countries step back on the path towards abolition
By Tiziana Trotta, on 27 October 2016
…to campaign for the end of the death penalty. The Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture (MADPET) hopes “that there will be no more death penalty in Malaysia by the…
2016
Drug Offenses
Terrorism
Article(s)
Philippines: House of Representatives must uphold international law obligations ahead of first death penalty vote
By Amnesty International & other organisations, on 19 February 2017
…is proposing for the country on the issue of the death penalty. Since its abolition of the death penalty − for the second time − in 2006, the Philippines has…
2017
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Philippines
Public Opinion
Article(s)
United Nations panel hears from innocent sentenced to death
By Maria Donatelli, on 4 July 2013
…The event title was “Moving away from the death penalty – Wrongful Convictions”. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon opened the event with the affirmation that “the taking of life in…
2013
Innocence
United States
Article(s)
African Commission adopts draft Protocol on abolition
By Maria Donatelli, on 24 April 2015
…the Death Penalty in collaboration with the Working Group on the Death Penalty in Africa of the ACHPR, addressed the issue of capital punishment in view of the adoption of…
2015
Article(s)
Punishing Sex Crimes: The Evolution of the Death Penalty in India
By Hédia Zaalouni, on 21 April 2020
…the Andhra Pradesh state legislature amended the Indian Penal Code of 1860 to provide for the death penalty as the exclusive punishment for rape. This state-sponsored amendment to the Indian…
2020
India
Article(s)
Dialogue on the death penalty during the 20th anniversary of the Reformasi
By Clémentine Etienne, on 27 June 2018
…Against the Death Penalty (ECPM), National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN). On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Reformasi, period of changes and…
2018
Indonesia
Article(s)
Launching of death penalty abolition project in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean
By Jessica Corredor, on 25 July 2018
…for the abolition of the death penalty in the region. The opening of the meeting, chaired by David Berry, dean of Law of the University of the West Indies was…
2018
Barbados
Public Opinion
Article(s)
Civil society instrumental in UN monitoring of progress towards abolition
By Thomas Hubert, on 22 September 2014
…Greater Caribbean for Life and the Puerto Rican Coalition against the Death Penalty detailed racial discrimination in the application of capital punishment there. “If the victim is white, a defendant…
2014
Indonesia
United States
Article(s)
Jamaica vote illustrates retentionist trend in the Caribbean
on 9 January 2009
…the death penalty is a response to rising crime rates,” said Carmelo Campos Cruz of the Puerto Rican Coalition Against the Death Penalty. (photo) “The annual homicide rate in the…
2009
Jamaica
Public Opinion
Saint Kitts and Nevis
21st World Day Against the Death Penalty – The death penalty: An irreversible torture
on 12 June 2023
…and more evident that the death penalty is inherently incompatible with the prohibition of torture. Scroll down and find more information about torture and the death penalty in our leaflet,…
2023
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Death Row Conditions
Article(s)
Experts analyse the relationship between poverty and the death penalty
By Dr. Lina M. Torres Rivera, on 18 June 2018
…of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (Paris, France) and the Death Penalty Commission of the Puerto Rico Bar, confirmed these conclusions. In his view, the death penalty is…
2018
Puerto Rico
Article(s)
Recontextualizing the threat of death penalty for homosexuality in Uganda
By Méline Szwarcberg, on 2 May 2023
…penalty. For states that have not yet abolished capital punishment, the use of the death penalty, according to Article 6 of the ICCPR, is restricted to the « most serious…
2023
Gender
Uganda
Article(s)
Burundi: Promising advocacy workshop for the ratification of the abolitionist treaty
By Sarah Saint-Sorny, on 10 June 2022
…The Covid-19 pandemic slowed down the ratification process, but according to them, the lack of legislator independence, the absence of political debate around the death penalty, and overall political instability…
2022
Burundi
Article(s)
Links between death penalty and mental health exposed from Japan to Nigeria
By Thomas Hubert, on 15 October 2014
…and the World Coalition to mark the 25th anniversary of this treaty, which outlaws the death penalty in the countries that ratify it. She highlighted the importance of the Protocol…
2014
Japan
Mental Illness
Article(s)
Joint statement for the 71st Ordinary Session of the African Commission
By ECPM, FIACAT, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 9 June 2022
Joint statement on the situation of the death penalty in Africa for the 71st Ordinary Session of the African Commission, signed by the FIACAT, ECPM and the World coalition. Mr….
2022
Congo
Côte d'Ivoire
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kenya
Liberia
Malawi
Niger
Uganda
Article(s)
US murder victims’ families advocate abolition in Asia
on 14 July 2010
…about the death penalty in a way that seldom if ever happens in these countries,” said MVFHR’s Susannah Sheffer. The fact that murder victim’s relatives could oppose the death penalty…
2010
Murder Victims' Families
Republic of Korea
20th World Day Against the Death Penalty – Death penalty: a road paved with torture
on 10 June 2022
…PENALTY IN PRACTICE (Statistics from Amnesty International) 110 States have abolished the death penalty for all crimes 7 States have abolished the death penalty for common law crimes 27 States…
2022
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Death Row Conditions
Article(s)
Mandatory Death Penalty for Blasphemy in Mauritania
By World Coalition Against the death penalty, on 11 May 2018
…prison terms for the death penalty for certain apostasy-related crimes if the offender promptly repents. The law also extends the scope of application of the death penalty to “renegade acts.”…
2018
Mauritania
Public Opinion
Article(s)
National conference gives Lebanese abolitionist movement a boost
By Thomas Hubert, on 14 February 2014
…to organise against the death penalty. Anne Souléliac co-chaired a training session presenting them key aspects of the best practices manual on the defence of clients facing the death penalty….
2014
Lebanon
Moratorium
Article(s)
Trinidad and Tobago narrowly avoids resumption of executions
on 8 March 2011
…the death penalty but only 35% of Trinidadians support the death penalty when there is a possibility of killing an innocent person. Based on these findings the report concluded, inter…
2011
Public Opinion
Trinidad and Tobago
Article(s)
Taiwan’s top court rejects appeal to suspend executions
on 7 June 2010
…can do without the death penalty”. The campaign, which is co-ordinated by Japan’s Center for Prisoners’ Rights and Amnesty International section, regrets that the heaviest users of the death penalty…
2010
Fair Trial
Taiwan
Taiwan
Article(s)
Second Optional Protocol: the only global treaty aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
By Pierre Désert, on 24 June 2008
It is the only international treaty that tackles this issue globally and is on the frontline in the UN’s struggle against the death penalty. The Protocol’s impact The Protocol is…
2008
Article(s)
Joint Open Letter to the President of Sri Lanka on the Imminent Resumption of Executions
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 2 July 2019
…the death penalty has a unique deterrent effect. As recently as March 2019, the UN has reiterated in unequivocal terms that the application of the death penalty for drug-related offences…
2019
Sri Lanka
Article(s)
7th Congress – Preventing the resurgence of the death penalty
By Louis Linel, on 19 March 2019
…for a more severe use of the death penalty at the cost of serious human rights violations. For example, minors are exposed to the death penalty because of their forced…
2019
Article(s)
Migrant workers facing capital punishment show need for alternative sentences
By Think Centre, on 26 April 2012
…well as the Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Campaign, We Believe In Second Chances and the Humanitarian Organization For Migration Economics are opposed to the death penalty that has been meted out…
2012
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Moratorium
Singapore
Article(s)
Moving away from the death penalty in Asia
By Sandra Babcock (DeathPenaltyWorldwide.org) in Bangkok, on 25 October 2013
…that the government will soon propose legislation to abolish the death penalty in the country. Dr Savestanan catalogued the problems with the application of the death penalty, including the possibility…
2013
Brunei Darussalam
China
Japan
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Moratorium
Myanmar
Public Opinion
Thailand