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…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…

…of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, underlined the role of UNODC in the struggle against the drug trade. Even if UNODC says to advocate the abolition of the…

…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…

…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…

…and the assistance they need.” The panellists, members of civil society and academics, recalled the international standards in force applicable to children. They maintained that the superior interest of the…

…imposed restrictions that have prevented many activities and initiatives from being carried out. 1 “Covid-19 : Calling for a Worldwide moratorium on the death penalty during the pandemic”, 18 June 2020 http://www.worldcoalition.org/In-May-2020-While-the-World-May-Be-Under-Lockdown-the-Death-Penalty-is-Not.html…

…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…

…death penalty were built and strengthened. “High profile death penalty cases are gradually informing the general public in Taiwan about the dangers of the death penalty,” said Hsinyi Lin, ADPAN…

…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”…

…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…

…the drive to abolish the death penalty around the world. Bringing back the death penalty into its laws would be an enormous step backward for the country, signaling a comprehensive…

A giant leap backwards Despite the enactment of “An act prohibiting the imposition of the death penalty in the Philippines” in 2006 and the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol…

…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….

…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…

…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…

…an opportunity for the Tunisian coalition against the death penalty to draw up a situational analysis of the death penalty in the Arab world in general and in Egypt in…

…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…

…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…

…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….

…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…

…torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment3. Since February 2021, an alarming increase in the resort to the death penalty is being recorded in Myanmar, where the military is…

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…

…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…

…member of the Steering Committee of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, addressed the last developments regarding the capital punishment in Bahrain. Underlining that only 2 countries from North…

…abolished the death penalty and 29 states still allow capital punishment, but in 4 of them governors have issued moratoriums on the death penalty: California in 2019, Colorado in 2013,…

…efforts to reduce the death penalty in Iran, and to include human rights, especially the situation of the death penalty in Iran, in their bilateral and multilateral dialogues. A good…

…be the 1116th U.S. execution since the death penalty was re-legalized in 1976, the 410th Texas execution, and the 171st execution since Rick Perry became governor in 2001. The Supreme…

…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…

…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…

…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…

During the 8th World Congress Against the Death Penalty, in Berlin Germany, the phrase “the death penalty is being used as a political tool” was used frequently – in panels,…

…on the death penalty front in China in the near future? I think that more intellectuals will agree with the abolition of the death penalty, and that we will be…

…in all cases, everywhere” and announced its intention to join the Support Group of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty, further strengthening the abolitionist cause at the occasion of…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…both in the bilateral dialogue, and within international bodies in particular within the Union Europeans but also vis-à-vis third States wishing to join the EU since the abolition of the…

…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…

…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…

…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,…

…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…

…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…

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…

…The UPR consists in a succession of four-year cycles of review, each of them divided into four main stages. The first stage of one State’s UPR requires the preparation of…

…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…

…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…

…de Kamp and Carcetti took part in recent World Congresses against the Death Penalty at the invitation of the World Coalition. One in four US death row prisoners in California…

…of the death penalty to be held at the United Nations in December 2018; •    To plead for the stopping of the pronouncements of death sentences by the Moroccan courts;…

…abolition of the death penalty. The World Coalition works to achieve this goal by urging international organizations and States; by organizing international campaigns, including the World Day Against the Death…

…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…

…the only international treaty on the abolition of the death penalty: the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights”. Angola asked to ratify the UN…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…abolition of the death penalty. A week after the end of the seminar, Comorian parliamentarians set up the first network of Parliamentarians against the Death Penalty in Comoros, encouraging 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…

…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.” …

…and the Death Penalty in Indonesia denounces all the international human rights and standards infringed by Indonesia. The report, published by Amnesty International, relies on the experience of individuals who…

…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…

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…

…conditions in conformity with the provisions of the Covenant and the Convention on Genocide. Further, they encouraged States not to perform the death penalty (in paragraph 4), they excluded those…

…Death Penalty, Global Women’s Strike United Kingdom, Japan Innocence and Death Penalty Information Center, Karapatan Alliance Philippines, LAW United Kingdom, Madpet (Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture), Malaysian Trade Union…

…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…

…in Saudi Arabia following confirmed information that the Specialized Criminal Court of Appeal (SCCA) has upheld their death sentences. Their cases were therefore referred to the Supreme Court which will…

…August 2023. In 2021, the World Day Against the Death Penalty on October 10 was dedicated to the invisible reality of women on death row. In preparation for this day,…

…justice system All this executions are initiated by the Iranian justice system. The Iranian death penalty system has been analyzed in by the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in…

…the death penalty in Bahrain. Signatories: Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB)  Fédération internationale pour les droits humains – International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)  Ligue des…

(…) In addition to taking part in the World Congress Against the Death Penalty, the TAEDP also participated in the WCADP members’ conference. The main goal, in addition to hoping…

…for drug-related offences, international mechanisms in charge of designing and monitoring drug policies have remained silent. Notwithstanding the sharp increase in executions and the distressing cases in which the death…

…Liévin Ngondji, founder of the NGO Culture for Peace and Justice (CPJ) in the DRC. “In the region, we have one common idea: to abolish the death penalty”, added ACAT-Burundi…

…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…

…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,…

…states that still retain the death penalty. Prof Brandon L. Garrett, author of Convicting the Innocent: Where the Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong, also addressed judicial flaws in the US. Wrongful…

…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…

…The Abolition of Capital Punishment (Amendment) Bill, 2019 Last July, Congress MP Pradeep Tamta introduced a bill to abolish the death penalty in India. He argued that the death penalty…

…question Indonesia’s position on the abolition of the death penalty worldwide? Are we already involved in the recommendation through the UPR sessions? –    Cooperate with the National Human Rights Commission;…

…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…

…statements on retentionist states increasingly highlight the unacceptable conditions attached to the use of the death penalty. Such observations, statements and reports by independent experts and international organisations may look…

…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…

…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…

…in 2009 and then passed in 2013 by parliament before being rejected in 2014 by the Constitutional Court for procedural reasons. In 2013, the law initially envisaged the death penalty…

…Liévin NGONDJI ONGOMBE TALUHATA and of Dr. Carole Valérie NOUAZI KEMKENG. They included an overview of the abolition of the death penalty in Burundi and the OP2-ICCPR ratification process. The…

…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…

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….

…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…

…unique deterrent effect on crime. The Philippines abolished the death penalty in 1987, reinstated it in 1993, then scrapped it again in 2006. Police records show that rape and murder…

…Philippines, the abolitionist movement is vacillating between victories and setbacks, with the death penalty having already been abolished twice, in 1994 and 2006. The recent presidential elections saw the death…

…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.”…

…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….

…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…

…set policy of moving in the direction of gradually abolishing death penalty in hopes to attain the ultimate goal of no death penalty” through a “step-by-step” approach including a reduction…

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…

…death penalty. Amnesty International opposes the death penalty in all cases without exception, regardless of the nature or circumstances of the crime; guilt, innocence or other characteristics of the individual;…

…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…