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Document(s)

Activity Report 2015

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2016


2016

NGO report

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Executions worldwide increased dramatically in number in 2015, dueprincipally to sharp increases in Pakistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia. At thesame time, this Activity Report for 2015 also reflects real progress toward abolition in the Americas and sub-Saharan Africa. Thesteady, consistent work of educating and encouraging accession toregional and international instruments to end the death penalty, is anincremental strategy that continues to bear fruit.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
  • Available languages Rapport D'Activités 2015

Document(s)

: Factsheet for Lawyers – 2020 World Day

on 8 September 2020


2020

Article

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On the occasion of the 2020 World Day, focusing on the right to access to counsel, Reprieve and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty released a facthsheet for defense lawyers.

Document(s)

2012 World Day Report

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2013


2013

Campaigning


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It presents the theme of 2012 World Day, facts on the death penalty and all the actions and media coverage for the 10thWorld Day on the progress made and challenges ahead.

  • Document type Campaigning
  • Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,

Document(s)

Mobilisation Kit

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2018


2018

Campaigning

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Produced to guide organisers, the kit suggests action and provides information about World Day and the theme chosen. For example, the section called “10 things you can to do on 10.10” suggests 10 activities to carry out within the framework of World Day such as participation in an art project, organisation of an event, or writing to those sentenced to death. It also suggests 10 tips for successful action.

  • Document type Campaigning
  • Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon,
  • Available languages Kit de mobilisation

TESTIMONIALS FROM WOMEN SENTENCED TO DEATH

on 1 July 2021

2021

Program of the 18 June 2021 General Assembly

on 15 June 2021

2021

Document(s)

Terms of Reference – Gender-sensitive evaluation of the 2021 World Day Against

on 7 October 2022


2022


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Page(s)

Contact us

on 22 June 2020

You can write to the World Coalition by filling in the form below in English or in French.

2020

Debunking the deterrence theory

on 9 July 2024

Debunking the deterrence theory

2024

ISSUES AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO RAISE WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF MALAWI

on 27 May 2021

2021

Document(s)

Executions, Deterrence and Homicide: A Tale of Two Cities

By David T. Johnson / Jeffrey Fagan / Franklin Zimring / Columbia School of Law, on 1 January 2009


2009

Article

China


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We compare homicide rates in two quite similar cities with vastly different execution risks. Singapore had an execution rate close to 1 per million per year until an explosive twentyfold increase in 1994-95 and 1996-97 to a level that we show was probably the highest in the world. Hong Kong,has no executions all during the last generation and abolished capital punishment in 1993. Homicide levels and trends are remarkably similar in these two cities over the 35 years after 1973. By comparing two closely matched places with huge contrasts in actual execution but no differences in homicide trends, we have generated a unique test of the exuberant claims of deterrence that have been produced over the past decade in the U.S.

  • Document type Article
  • Countries list China
  • Themes list Deterrence ,

Document(s)

No Human Way to Kill

By Robert Priseman / Artfractures, on 1 January 2009


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‘No Human Way to Kill’ comprises an exhibition of twelve etchings produced by the Goldmark Atelier in 2007 and a 102 page book published by Seabrook Press in association with the Human Rights Centre at the Universtiy of Essex in 2009. The etchings were first displayed at the University of San Francisco in 2008 and the European Commission Gallery in 2009.

  • Document type Working with...
  • Themes list Networks,

Document(s)

Leaflet – 2020 World Day

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report

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2020 World Day 8-page leaflet

  • Document type Academic report
  • Themes list Fair Trial, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
  • Available languages Brochure - Journée mondiale 2020

Document(s)

Ripoti Ya Kimataifa Ya Amnesty International Hukumu Za Kifo Na Watu Walionyongwa 2022

By Amnesty International, on 16 May 2023


2023

NGO report


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Utafiti wa Amnesty International kuhusu matumizi ya adhabu ya kifo mwaka wa 2022 ulionyesha kwambakulikuwa na ongezeko kubwa la idadi ya watu wanaojulikana kuwa walinyongwa duniani, likiwemo ongezekokubwa la watu walionyongwa kutokana na makosa yanayohusiana na dawa za kulevya

  • Document type NGO report
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Youth Safety Awareness Initiative (Crime Si Poa®)

on 27 March 2024

Youth Safety Awareness Initiative mission is to promote social justice and a crime-free society through education, advocacy and social enterprise, targeting children and young people. Youth Safety Awareness Initiative primarily focus on discouraging at-risk and vulnerable youth from engaging in criminal activities and addressing threats to peace through behavioral and attitudinal change, while promoting the […]

2024

Kenya

Document(s)

End Crime, not Life is not about protecting criminals, but about protecting vulnerable innocents

By Coalition for the Abolition of Death Penalty in ASEAN (CADPA), on 8 September 2020


2020

Multimedia content

Malaysia


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Cheong Chun Yin, a Malaysian boy, was about 23 years old when he was arrested for drug trafficking. A trusting boy he was asked to bring some ‘gold’ to Singapore. Merri was a victim of domestic abuse, whose son had a heart defect. She took a job abroad to help pay his hospital bills. A loving man bought her a suitcase for her home journey. The tragedy of such stories is what keeps human rights activists and lawyers from ASEAN unrelenting in their opposition to the death penalty, for reasons they spell out in this video.

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Countries list Malaysia
  • Themes list Arbitrariness, Networks, Country/Regional profiles,

Document(s)

There Is No Evil

By YouTube / Mohammad Rasoulof, on 1 January 2020


2020

Multimedia content

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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There Is No Evil (Persian: شیطان وجود ندارد‎, lit. ‘Satan doesn’t exist’) is a 2020 Iranian drama film directed by Mohammad Rasoulof. It won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival. The film relates four stories concerning the death penalty in Iran. Rasoulof explained that the film is about “people taking responsibility” for their actions, and that each story “is based on my own experience.”

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Countries list Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • Themes list Public debate,
  • Available languages Le Diable n'existe pas

Document(s)

Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong

By Raymond Bonner / Stated First Edition, on 1 January 2012


2012

Book

United States


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The book that helped free an innocent man who had spent twenty-seven years on death row. In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and windows, but barely ninety days after the victim’s body was found, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death.

  • Document type Book
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Row Conditions,

Document(s)

Change of Heart: Justice, Mercy, and Making Peace with My Sister’s Killer

By Jeanne Bishop / Westminster John Knox Press, on 1 January 2015


2015

Book

United States


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Jeanne Bishop has written a new book about her life and spiritual journey after her sister was murdered in Illinois in 1990. Change of Heart: Justice, Mercy, and Making Peace with My Sister’s Killer tells Bishop’s personal story of grief, loss, and of her eventual efforts to confront and reconcile with her sister’s killer. She also addresses larger issues of capital punishment, life sentences for juvenile offenders, and restorative justice. Former Illinois Governor George Ryan said of the book, “When I commuted the death sentences of everyone on Illinois’s death row, I expressed the hope that we could open our hearts and provide something for victims’ families other than the hope of revenge. I quoted Abraham Lincoln: ‘I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.’ Jeanne Bishop’s compelling book tells the story of how devotion to her faith took her face-to-face with her sister’s killer …. She reminds us of a core truth: that our criminal justice system cannot be just without mercy.”

  • Document type Book
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Murder Victims' Families,

Document(s)

When Justice Fails: Thousands executed in Asia after unfair trials

By Amnesty International / Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, on 1 January 2011


2011

NGO report


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Failures of justice in trials which result in an execution cannot be rectified. In the Asia-Pacific region, where 95 per cent of the population live in countries that retain and use the death penalty, there is a real danger of the state executing someone in error following an unfair trial.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Fair Trial,

Document(s)

Handbook of Forensic Psychiatric Practice in Capital Cases

By The Death Penalty Project / Nick Green / Nigel Eastman / Richard Latham / Marc Lyall, on 1 January 2018


2018

Working with...


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This Handbook represents a stand alone, single-volume practionners’ handbook for the use of psychiatrists and psychologists, sollicitors, barristers, prosecuting authorities and the courts, who are required to deal with homicide, and other cases, in jurisdictions and circumstances where the death penalty can apply.

  • Document type Working with...
  • Themes list Mental Illness,

Document(s)

Judging Innocence

By Brandon Garrett / Columbia School of Law, on 1 January 2008


2008

Article

United States


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This empirical study examines for the first time how the criminal system in the United States handled the cases of people who were subsequently found innocent through postconviction DNA testing. The data collected tell the story of this unique group of exonerees, starting with their criminal trials, moving through levels of direct appeals and habeas corpus review, and ending with their eventual exonerations. Beginning with the trials of these exonerees, this study examines the leading types of evidence supporting their wrongful convictions, which were erroneous eyewitness identifications, forensic evidence, informant testimony, and false confessions. Yet our system of criminal appeals and postconviction review poorly addressed factual deficiencies in these trials. Few exonerees brought claims regarding those facts or claims alleging their innocence. For those who did, hardly any claims were granted by courts. Far from recognizing innocence, courts often denied relief by finding errors to be harmless.

  • Document type Article
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Innocence,

Document(s)

Peter Jackson talks about his innocence project: ‘West of Memphis’

By Chris Nashawaty / Entertainment Weekly, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report

United States


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For the past seven years, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh have quietly financed investigations to help free Jason Baldwin, Jesse Misskelley Jr., and Damien Echols, known as the the West Memphis Three, who were wrongly convicted in 1994 of murdering three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis , Arkansas. This piece provides and in-depth look into Peter and Fran’s involvement with the investigattion, the creation of ‘West of Memphis’ as a way to expose key developments in the infamous murder case and Jackson’s main goal, to exonerate the West Memphis Three and help find the real killer.

  • Document type Academic report
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Innocence,

Document(s)

Identifying and (Re)formulating Prophylactic Rules, Safe Harbors, and Incidental Rights in Constitutional Criminal Procedure

By Susan R. Klein / Michigan Law Review, on 1 January 2001


2001

Article

United States


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The Miranda conundrum runs something like this: If the Miranda decision represents true constitutional interpretation, and all unwarned statements taken during custodial interrogation are compelled” within the meaning of the self-incrimination clause, the impeachment and “”fruits”” exceptions to Miranda should fall. If it is not true constitutional interpretation, than the Court has no business reversing state criminal convictions for its violation. I offer here what I hope is a satisfying answer to this conundrum, on both descriptive and normative levels, that justifies not only Miranda but a host of similar Warren, Burger, and Rehnquist Court decisions as well. In Part I, I introduce and define the terms “”constitutional prophylactic rule,”” “”constitutional safe harbor rule,”” and “”constitutional incidental right,”” and attempt to legitimate their use. I further demonstrate that constitutional criminal procedure is so flush with such prophylactic and safe harbor rules and incidental rights that trying to eliminate them now, by either reversing a large number of criminal procedure cases or “”constitutionalizing”” all of those holdings, would do more harm than good. I propose that we accept the fact that these rules and rights are a fixed part of our constitutional landscape, and focus instead on minimizing their risks and maximizing their benefits”

  • Document type Article
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Fair Trial,

Document(s)

Unsafe convictions in capital cases in Taiwan

By Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty / The Death Penalty Project, on 1 January 2019


2019

NGO report

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Document(s)

Entrenchment and/or Destabilization? Reflections on (Another) Two Decades of Constitutional Regulation of Capital Punishment

By Death Penalty Information Center / Carol S. Steiker / Jordan M. Steiker, on 1 January 2012


2012

Article

United States


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A recent law review article by Professors Carol and Jordan Steiker examines two decades of attempts to regulate capital punishment and concludes that this process may have paved the way to a finding that the death penalty is unconstitutional

  • Document type Article
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Country/Regional profiles,

Document(s)

Tanzania Human Rights Report 2008: Progress through Human Rights

By Sarah Louw / Clarence Kipobota / Legal and Human Rights Centre, on 1 January 2009


2009

NGO report


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Tanzania is one of 25 countries in the world that continues to retain the death penalty in its legislation.56 However, de facto, Tanzania is an abolitionist country, as there have been no executions in Tanzania since 1994. Chapter 2.1.1 describes the position of the death penalty in Tanzania.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Statistics,

Document(s)

How to Lobby

By California People of Faith Working Against the death penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

Lobbying


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Lobbying your elected officials is one of the most important actions you can take to bring about the end of the death penalty. Here are some tips for communicating effectively with government officials.

  • Document type Lobbying
  • Themes list Networks,

Document(s)

Racial Bias

By National Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2014


2014

Arguments against the death penalty


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This webpage provides information on the link between racism and the death penalty in the United States.

  • Document type Arguments against the death penalty
  • Themes list Discrimination,

Document(s)

Objection Handbook

By John H. Blume / Cornwell Death Penalty Project, on 1 January 2008


2008

Working with...


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This handbook is divided into five tabbed sections. The first section provides some general guidelines to assist trial counsel in properly preserving issues for appellate review. Sections 2-4 address the following topics: (2) pre-trial issues; (3) jury selection and juror misconduct issues; (4) the substantive admissibility of evidence; and, (5) the solicitor’s closing argument.

  • Document type Working with...
  • Themes list Networks,

Document(s)

Forgotten

By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2012


2012

Arguments against the death penalty


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This 2011 film ‘Forgotten’ was produced under the EU funded project ‘Progressive Abolition of the Death Penalty and Alternatives that Respect International Human Rights Standards’. The film reflects the conditions for those sentenced to life imprisonment in the countries of Central Asia.

  • Document type Arguments against the death penalty
  • Themes list Death Row Conditions, Country/Regional profiles,

Document(s)

Muzzling critical voices: Politicized trials before Saudi Arabia’s Specialized Criminal Court

By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020


2020

NGO report

Saudi Arabia

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Despite the Saudi Arabian authorities’ rhetoric about reforms, they have unleashed an intense crackdown on citizens promoting change in the last few years. One of the instruments of that repression has been the Specialized Criminal Court (SCC), which was set up in 2008 to try individuals accused of terror-related crimes. Amnesty International has documented the cases of 95 individuals who were tried before the SCC between 2011 and 2019. It has concluded that the SCC’s judges have presided over grossly unfair trials, handing down prison sentences of up to 30 years and numerous death sentences, in an effort to silence dissent.

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Report No. 211/20. Case 13.570. Report on admissibility and mertis. Lezmond C. Mitchell. United States of America

By Inter-american Commission on Human Rights, on 24 August 2020


2020

Regional body report

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Manual for Civil Society Participation in OAS Activities

By Organization of American States, on 1 January 2009


2009

Working with...

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The purpose of this Manual for Civil Society Participation in OAS Activities, prepared by the Department of International Affairs, is to clarify the mechanisims through which CSOs can participate in OAS activities and contribute to the formulation of hemispheric policies. In addition, the Manual provides a summary of the structure and work areas of the Organization as well as the guiding principles for CSO participation.

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African Court on Human and Peoples Rights Quick Facts

By African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, on 1 January 2006


2006

Working with...

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The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights was established by the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Court’s Protocol). The Court’s mission is to complement and reinforce the functions of the Commission in promoting and protecting human and peoples’ rights, freedoms and duties in African Union Member States.

Document(s)

Facts and Figures 2014

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2014


2014

World Coalition

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Up-to-date information on the application of death penalty around the world in 2013 and 2014

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Poster World Day 2008

By World Coalition against the death penalty , on 10 October 2008


2008

Campaigning

Trend Towards Abolition

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Poster World day against the death penalty 2009

Document(s)

Factsheet for Parlementarians 2017

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2017


2017

Working with...

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Parlementarians Factsheet for the World Day Against the Death Penalty.

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Fact Sheet – Judges

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report


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While the death penalty remains, persons with mental disabilities are at risk of being sentenced to death and executed in breach of international standards. This briefing paper provides concrete examples of what can be done to address this risk, including by implementing existing standards barring the imposition of death sentences or executions on those with intellectual disabilities and those who are seriously mentally ill.

  • Document type Academic report
  • Themes list Mental Illness, Intellectual Disability,

Document(s)

Facts and Figures 2018

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2018


2018

World Coalition

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Up-to-date information on the application of death penalty around the world in 2017 and 2018.

Document(s)

World Day 2011 Petition

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2011


2011

Campaigning

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The petition calls on retentionist states to establish a moratorium on the use of the death penalty with a view to abolish it on the ground that it is inhumane.

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2009 World Day Report: Teaching Abolition 2009

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2009


2009

Campaigning

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It presents the theme of 2009 World Day, facts on the death penalty and all the actions and media coveragefor the 2009 World Day on Teaching Abolition.

Document(s)

Ratification Kit – Colombia

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 14 October 2020


2020

Lobbying

Colombia

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This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol to American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty, and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the American Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.

Document(s)

Ratification Kit – Bolivia

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 14 October 2020


Lobbying

Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

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This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol to American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty, and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the American Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.

Document(s)

Advocacy Strategy

By Fulgence Massawe, on 1 January 2017


2017

Multimedia content


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Presentation of Fulgence Massawe, Legal and Human Rights Centre for the Advocating for the abolition of the death penalty in sub-Saharan Africa workshop, which took place during the 2017 General Assembly of the World CoalitionLegal and Human Rights Centre

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Themes list Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,

Document(s)

Ratification Kit – El Salvador

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 14 October 2020


2020

Lobbying

El Salvador

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This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol to American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty, and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the American Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.

Document(s)

Human Rights Council March 2016 Iran letter

By Impact Iran , on 1 January 2016


2016

Multimedia content

Iran (Islamic Republic of)


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Some Human Rights and civil society groups wrote to the member states of the Human Rights Council to get them to support the resolution to renew the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran at the 31st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Countries list Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • Themes list International law, Most Serious Crimes, Country/Regional profiles,

Document(s)

Innocence Lost: A Play About Steven Truscott

By Beverley Cooper / Centaur Theater Company, on 1 January 2013


2013

Working with...


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In 1959, the Canadian justice system nearly killed an innocent 14-year-old boy. The fact that Steven Truscott was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of 12-year-old Lynne Harper that year, and sentenced to hang, now seems surreal. All the more so since he’s alive and well and living quietly with his family after 10 years of unjust incarceration – and many more years as an obscure factory worker, father and grandfather, after suffering the consequences of a destroyed reputation.

  • Document type Working with...
  • Themes list Public opinion, Innocence,

Document(s)

Anything But Humane

By Amnesty International - USA, on 8 September 2020


2020

Arguments against the death penalty


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A fact sheet on the lethal injection in the United States. This page details the process of lethal injection with statements of US health professional associations on participation in execution.

  • Document type Arguments against the death penalty
  • Themes list Lethal Injection,

Document(s)

Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides

By Who Decides, Inc., on 1 January 2012


2012

Working with...


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The objective of this initiative was to use “the product of art” as a vehicle to educate common people about the history and practice of capital punishment in America and to lift societies consciousness around the idea of endowing a National Death Penalty Museum to preserve its deep history.

  • Document type Working with...
  • Themes list Public debate,

Document(s)

Stories of Victims of Terrorism

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2016


2016

Multimedia content

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Together with AfVT, the World Coalition has developed this two-page note explaining why some victims of terrorism are against the death penalty.

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Judy Kerr: Murder Victim Family Member

By California Crime Victims for Alternatives to the Death Penalty / YouTube, on 1 January 2009


2009

Working with...


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Judy Kerr talks about her experience as a murder victim family member and her opposition against the death. Responding to violence with violence is not the answer.

  • Document type Working with...
  • Themes list Networks,

Document(s)

Last Woman Hanged

By Caroline Overington / Harper Collins, on 1 January 2018


2018

Book


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In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of ten children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Louisa Collins was hanged at a time when women were in no sense equal under the law — except when it came to the gallows. They could not vote or stand for parliament — or sit on juries.

  • Document type Book
  • Themes list International law, Death Penalty,

Document(s)

Last Day of Freedom

By Dee Hibbert-Jones / Nomi Talisman, on 1 January 2015


2015

Working with...


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When Bill Babbitt realizes his brother Manny has committed a crime he agonizes over his decision: should he call the police? Last Day of Freedom, a richly animated personal narrative, tells the story of Bill’s decision to stand by his brother in the face of war, crime and capital punishment. The film is a portrait of a man at the nexus of the most pressing social issues of our day – veterans’ care, mental health access and criminal justice.

  • Document type Working with...
  • Themes list Murder Victims' Families,

Document(s)

Mercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution

By Austin Sarat / Princeton University Press, on 1 January 2005


2005

Book

United States


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In this compelling and timely work, Austin Sarat provides the first book-length work on executive clemency. He turns our focus from questions of guilt and innocence to the very meaning of mercy. Starting from Ryan’s controversial decision, Mercy on Trial uses the lens of executive clemency in capital cases to discuss the fraught condition of mercy in American political life. Most pointedly, Sarat argues that mercy itself is on trial. Although it has always had a problematic position as a form of “lawful lawlessness,” it has come under much more intense popular pressure and criticism in recent decades. This has yielded a radical decline in the use of the power of chief executives to stop executions.

  • Document type Book
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Clemency,

Document(s)

Lethal Injustice in Asia: End unfair trials, stop executions

By Amnesty International / Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, on 1 January 2011


2011

NGO report

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More people are executed in the Asia-Pacific region than in the rest of the world combined. Add to this the probability that they were executed following an unfair trial, and the gross injustice of this punishment becomes all too clear.

Document(s)

World Report 2010

By Human Rights Watch, on 1 January 2010


2010

NGO report


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This report is does not specificly concern the death penalty but examines the use of the death penalty on juveniles and those with mental illness in many retentionist countries. It contains information gathered in 2009.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Juveniles, Mental Illness,

Document(s)

Cost

By National Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2014


2014

Arguments against the death penalty


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This document provides information on the cost of death penalty cases in the United States.

  • Document type Arguments against the death penalty
  • Themes list Networks, Financial cost,

Document(s)

World Report 2011

By Human Rights Watch, on 1 January 2011


2011

NGO report


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This report is does not specificly concern the death penalty but examines the use of the death penalty on juveniles and those with mental illness in many retentionist countries. It contains information gathered in 2009.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Juveniles, Mental Illness,

Document(s)

Executing Those Who Do Not Kill

By Tracy Casadio / Joseph Trigilio / American Criminal Law Review, on 1 January 2011


Article

United States


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This article explores the constitutionality of the death penalty for those convicted of felony murder, i.e., those who participated in a serious crime in which a death occurred, but were not directly responsible for the death.

  • Document type Article
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Innocence,

Document(s)

One Iranian lawyer’s fight to save juveniles from execution

By Amnesty International / The Guardian, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report

Iran (Islamic Republic of)


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As part of Amnesty International’s 2012 death penalty campaign the Guardian and animators from Sherbet tell in this short animation fim the extraordinary story of Mohammad Mostafaei, a lawyer who has saved 20 of the 40 juveniles he has defended from execution in Iran. Actor Paul Bettany speaks the lawyer’s words.

  • Document type Academic report
  • Countries list Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • Themes list Innocence,

Document(s)

Why an Independent Appointed Authority Is Necessary to Choose Counsel for Indigent People in Capital Punishment Cases

By Ronald J. Tabak / Hofstra Law Review, on 1 January 2003


2003

Article

United States


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The revised ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases require that an agency “independent of the judiciary” be responsible for “ensuring that each capital defendant in the jurisdiction receives high quality legal representation.” This independent agency “and not the judiciary or elected officials should select lawyers for specific cases.” These mandates reflect two realities that have become overwhelmingly clear: (1) judges—whether initially elected, subject to retention elections, or appointed—are subject to political pressures in connection with capital punishment cases; and (2) lawyers whom judges have appointed in capital punishment cases have frequently been of far lower quality than could have been selected.

  • Document type Article
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Legal Representation,

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Global Prison Trends 2018

By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2018


2018

NGO report


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  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Sentencing Alternatives, Death Penalty, Statistics,

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PROBING “LIFE QUALIFICATION” THROUGH EXPANDED VOIR DIRE

By John H. Blume / Sheri Lynn Johnson / Brian Threlkeld / Hofstra Law Review, on 1 January 2001


2001

Article

United States


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It turns out that voir dire in capital cases is woefully ineffective at the most elementary task—weeding out unqualified jurors.Empirical evidence reveals that many capital jurors are in fact unqualified to serve. Moreover, the ineffectiveness of the process is far from even-handed. A juror is not “death-qualified” if she would always vote against a death sentence, regardless of the circumstances, and a handful of the jurors who actually serve in capital cases are in fact unqualified for this reason.

  • Document type Article
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Networks,

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Guidelines for Submitting Communications

By African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, on 8 September 2020


2020

Working with...

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This document outlines the functions of the Commission, how to make presentations in front of the Commission, the procedures of examining the communication and the recommendations of the Commission.

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State Secrets: China’s Legal Labyrinth

By Andrew Nathan / ChristineLoh / Liu Baopu / Fu Hualing / Jerome A. Cohen / Human Rights In China, on 8 September 2020


NGO report

China


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This report describes and examines the PRC state secrets system and shows how itallows and even promotes human rights violations by undermining the rights tofreedom of expression and information. The PRC state secrets system, implementedthrough a CPC-controlled hierarchy of government bodies, is comprised of statesecrets laws and regulations that work in tandem with the PRC’s state security,criminal procedure and criminal laws, to create a complex, opaque system that controlsthe classification of—and criminalizes the disclosure or possession of—statesecrets. By guarding too much information and sweeping a vast universe of informationinto the state secrets net, the complex and opaque state secrets system perpetuatesa culture of secrecy that is not only harmful but deadly to Chinese society

  • Document type NGO report
  • Countries list China
  • Themes list Transparency,

Document(s)

Paroles d’enfant (noir et blanc)

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

en
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Témoignages d’enfants dont un parent a été condamné à mort ou exécuté, compilés par la Coalition mondiale contre la peine de mort, avec le soutien de ses organisation membres pour la collecte et le partage des témoignages.

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Factsheet for Lawyers 2017

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2017


2017

Working with...

fr
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Factsheet for lawyers – World Day Against the Death Penalty 2017

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True Conviction

By Death Penalty Information Center / Jamie Meltzer, on 1 January 2017


2017

Working with...


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True Conviction is a documentary which follows the detective agency started by Christopher Scott, the late Johnnie Lindsey, and Steven Phill—three wrongly convicted Dallas men who were exonerated after spending a combined 60 years in prison—as they work to attempt to free death-sentenced Max Soffar and other wrongly convicted prisoners.

  • Document type Working with...
  • Themes list Innocence, Death Row Conditions, Death Penalty,

Document(s)

Factsheet for Prison Staff

By Penal Reform International / World Coalition Against the Death Penalty , on 1 January 2018


2018

Working with...

fr
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Factsheet for prison staff – World Day Against the Death Penalty 2018.

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Factsheet for Prison Staff

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2018


Working with...

fr
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While the death penalty remains, persons with mental disabilities are at risk of being sentenced to death and executed in breach of international standards. This briefing paper aims to help prison staff act ethically and professionally when dealing with people on death row.

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Factsheet for Lawyers

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2018


Working with...

fr
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Factsheet for lawyers – World Day Against the Death Penalty 2018

  • Document type Working with...
  • Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon,
  • Available languages Fiche pratique pour les avocats

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Factsheet for Medical Professions

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2014


2014

Working with...

fr
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While the death penalty remains, persons with mental disabilities are at risk of being sentenced to death and executed in breach of international standards. This briefing paper provides concrete examples of what can be done to address this risk, including by the adoption by national medical professional bodies of codes of conduct ensuring that professionals do not act unethically or unprofessionally in capital cases.

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Factsheet for Journalists

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2014


Working with...

en
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While the death penalty remains, persons with mental disabilities are at risk of being sentenced to death and executed in breach of international standards. This briefing paper provides concrete examples of what can be done to address this risk, including by working towards the reduction of stigma against persons with mental or intellectual disabilities, particularly where media reports promote inaccurate public beliefs about risks posed by such persons.

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Call for actions in Barbados and Eastern Caribbean

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty / Greater Caribbean For Life, on 1 January 2018


2018

Multimedia content


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The Greater Caribbean For Life (GCL) and the World Coalition are part of a joint project which aims to create a platform for death penalty reform in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, leading to eventual abolition.

  • Document type Multimedia content

Document(s)

Explaining Spatial Variation in Support for Capital Punishment: A Multilevel Analysis

By Steven F. Messner / Eric P. Baumer / American Sociological Review / Richard Rosenfeld, on 1 January 2003


2003

Article

United States


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This research examines the effects of social context on support for the death penalty using individual-level data from the 1974-98 General Social Survey (GSS) which have been linked with aggregate level data on homicide rates and sociodemographic, political and economic characteristics. This study finds that residents of areas with higher homicide rates, a larger proportion of blacks, and a more conservative political climate are significantly more likely to support the death penalty, net of compositional differences.

  • Document type Article
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Public opinion,

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Leaflet Asia 2008: it’s time to end executions

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report

fr
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This leaflet gives you information about the World Coalition’s demands in Asia. It aslo provides a summary of the situation of the death penalty in Asia.

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World Day Mobilisation Kit

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2011


2011

Campaigning

fr
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This mobilisation kit for the 2011 World Day dedicated to the inhumanity of the death penalty suggests activities and gives advice to hold successful World Day events.

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Mobilisation Kit 2014

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

Campaigning

fr
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Produced to guide organisers, the kit suggests action and provides information about World Day and the theme chosen. For example, the section called “10 things you can to do on 10.10” suggests 10 activities to carry out within the framework of World Day such as participation in an art project, organisation of an event, or writing to those sentenced to death. It also suggests 10 tips for successful action.

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Mobilisation Kit

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2018


2018

Campaigning

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More details Download [ pdf - 494 Ko ]

Produced to guide organisers, the kit suggests action and provides information about World Day and the theme chosen. For example, the section called “10 things you can to do on 10.10” suggests 10 activities to carry out within the framework of World Day such as participation in an art project, organisation of an event, or writing to those sentenced to death. It also proposes 10 tips for successful action.

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Tanzania Human Rights Report – 2017 ‘Unknown Assailants’: A Threat to Human Rights

By Legal and Human Rights Centre, on 8 September 2020


2020

NGO report

United Republic of Tanzania


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“Unknown Assailants: A Threat to Human Rights”So is named The Tanzania Human Rights Report of 2017 released by the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC).This report was published on April, 25th 2018 and it enlights for the fifteenth time the major human rights violation in Tanzania. This report, while it deals with human rights violation in Tanzania concerning civil and politial rights, freedom of violence, freedom of expression, etc, also presents some issues due to these violations such as the right to participate in governance, particularly the right to participate in political life, which are deny.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Countries list United Republic of Tanzania
  • Themes list Death Penalty, Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,

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Ratification Campaign Update 16 – October 2014

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

fr
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This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every other month to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries.

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Ratification Campaign Update 25- June 2019

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2019


2019

Lobbying

fr
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This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign as of 20 June 2019. This update gives information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries

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Ratification Campaign Update 2 – December 2009

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report

fr
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This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every other month to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries.

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Ratification Campaign Update 24 – October 2018

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

fr
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This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every six months to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries.

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Ratification Campaign Update 1 – October 2009

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

fr
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This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every other month to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries.

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Ratification Campaign Update 14 – January 2014

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Academic report


More details Download [ pdf - 76 Ko ]

This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every other month to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries.

  • Document type Academic report
  • Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,

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Ratification Campaign Update 18 – May 2015

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

fr
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This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every other month to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries.

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Ratification Campaign Update 10 – March 2012

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

fr
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This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every other month to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries.

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Ratification Campaign Update 8 – August 2011

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

fr
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This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every other month to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries.

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Ratification Campaign Update 15 – March 2014

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Academic report


More details Download [ pdf - 78 Ko ]

This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every other month to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries.

  • Document type Academic report
  • Themes list International law,

Document(s)

Ratification Campaign Update 9 – October 2011

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

fr
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This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every other month to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries.

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Ratification Campaign Update 11 – Mai 2013

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

fr
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This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every other month to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries.

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Ratification Campaign Update 12 – September 2013

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Academic report


More details Download [ pdf - 75 Ko ]

This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every other month to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries.

  • Document type Academic report
  • Themes list International law,

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Ratification Campaign Update 3 – February 2010

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

fr
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This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every other month to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries.

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Ratification Campaign Update 17 – March 2015

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

fr
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This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every other month to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries.

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Ratification Campaign Update 22 – November 2017

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

fr
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This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every six months to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries

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Ratification Campaign Update 7 – May 2011

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

fr
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This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every other month to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries.