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…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…

General comments on death penalty in 2015 in Iran According to the report, the main noticeable trend of 2015 is the 29% increase in executions (reaching the number of 969)…

…the Covenant including its Article 6, which also sets in its para.6 the abolition of the death penalty as the goal for those States that still retain the death penalty….

…twin issues of the right to life and the right of children? Let’s look back at the reflections conducted during the World Congress against the Death Penalty. The death penalty…

…of Phase 2 of the project for the abolition of the death penalty in sub-Saharan Africa, organized on 29 and 30 November by the World Coalition in partnership with FIACAT…

…to the ECPHRFF forbids the death penalty “in peacetime” . Protocol n° 13 of 2002 on the other hand abolishes the death penalty “in all circumstances. 3. Cambodia abolished the…

…the death penalty. 64% of the French were in favor of the death penalty and only 28% were against it, yet the death penalty was abolished on October 9, 1981. …

…for a reflection on the death penalty” The participants to the congress noted in their final declaration: “For several years, particularly since the Arab Spring of 2011, the countries of…

…penalty. Houston “teach-in” In the United States, the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty held its second “teach-in” at the University of St Thomas. Activists received training into educating…

According to the 2013 Annual report on the death penalty in Iran published by World Coalition member organisations Iran Human Rights (IHR) and Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM), most…

…in cooperation with Belarusian Helsinki Committee and Amnesty International in Minsk, they initiated the campaign “Human Rights Defenders against the Death Penalty in Belarus”. Its coordinator, Andrei Poluda, believes that…

…Finally, in a majority of the 16 states which have yet to ratify the protocol, the death penalty ceased to be an issue in the 1970s and 1980s. In contrast,…

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

Four meetings on religious support for the abolition of the death penalty have taken place in the past weeks at different locations in Thailand, with one more seminar scheduled in…

…tide is turning against the death penalty in the United States, it is probably due to a combination of several factors, among them an increasing public awareness about the death…

As soon as the UN Human Rights Council convened in Geneva in late February, the International Commission against the Death Penalty held a high-level side event to the session. Senior…

…Africa at Amnesty International. Despite the replacement of the death penalty by a 30 years’ imprisonment sentence for drug related offenses, the parliament, under the pressure of the Iran’s judiciary…

…commitments to the abolition of the death penalty, in particular by supporting the upcoming UN resolution calling for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty in December 2022….

…of the population” in favour of death penalty according to the President The head of the executive nevertheless indicated that his country “maintained the death penalty as most of the…

…on the families, travel bans, etc.: the authorities have established a real climate of terror. Chinese lawyers and the death penalty politics The submission of the judiciary to the political…

…the death penalty since the 1990s suggests that in most of the country, the death penalty is becoming obsolete,” Dunham said. DPIC provides information and analysis and tracks data on the…

…the death penalty/ still retain the death penalty: A) Abolish the death penalty for all offences, regardless of gender; B) Pending full abolition, we call on governments to: Eliminate the…

…the process of adopting the draft Protocol to the Banjul Charter on the abolition of the death penalty in Africa by the African Union has been stalled. Therefore, we call…

…and the Comoros met at the initiative of the ACHPR’s Working Group on the Death Penalty in partnership with FIACAT, the World Coalition and the OIF. The aim was to…

…acceding to the ICCPR in April 2014 and five other treaties in May 2014. An uncertain situation of the death penalty in Palestine From the founding of the Palestinian Authority…

…dignity for the dying death row prisoners. Unless the international political community and the media get involved, as they should have done decades ago,  barbarity made in USA will go…

…the executions while the Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN) said in a statement it “fears that today’s executions raise the genuine fear that use of the death penalty in Japan…

…the Death Penalty denounced the “incoherence” between government announcements and actual progress on the death penalty in his country. Renny Cushing of Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights gave some…

…of murder in Barbados, their death sentences were imposed automatically without any consideration of the mitigating factors in their cases or their individual circumstances. In its judgment the CCJ accepted…

…supplies requested throughout the contract, the World Coalition’s prior approval and the submission of an invoice by the selected tenderer, specifying the actions carried out throughout the month and the…

…out against the death penalty (in Malaysia and Japan) and progress made in individual countries. For example, Mongolia has established a moratorium on the death penalty and ratified the Second…

…the International Criminal Court and of the UN Protocol on the abolition of the death penalty. The MPs’ goal is also to lead their country to accept the universal moratorium…

…in discourse on the death penalty in the country that is underway. On 3 April, a protest against the death penalty drew a crowd of about 400; three weeks later…

…resolutions on the subject. It also calls on them to ratify the UN Second Optional Protocol, the only international treaty establishing the abolition of the death penalty, without the possibility…

…in 2011 revealed that 89% of the public were in favour of keeping the death penalty. Moreover, the reluctance of Zimbabweans to impose the death penalty in different cases where…

…mobilized the Commonwealth government’s resources to help federal authorities impose the death penalty on Puerto Rico.” Sovereignty, federalism and the death penalty Under the Federal Death Penalty Act 1994 signed…

…concerning the death penalty, given the recent executions in Indonesia? Surprisingly, in Kuala Lumpur, nobody spoke about the executions, neither in the street nor in the media. I attended a…

…ACAT Benin). Each speaker dove into various elements of how children experience the socio-psychological impact of the death penalty of a parent and what steps the State should take in…

…the death penalty in the imperial penal codes. By referring to Chinese legal sources, the researcher has observed that the death penalty was originally only used for proven killers. “As…

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

…spectators in the local language about the ineffective and inhuman nature of the death penalty. “These events are appreciated and we are making great progress”, confirmed Bernard Sagara, President of…

…there in 2009, again the lowest number since 1976. In its annual report, the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (TCADP) concluded: “Concerns about innocence, arbitrariness, cost, and fairness…

The Greater Caribbean for Life (GCL), an independent, not-for-profit regional civil society organization working towards the abolition of the Death Penalty in the region, rejects the recommendation for the resumption…

…leaders also participated in community events and signed a letter condemning the immorality of the death penalty. Finally, they organised an “End the Death Penalty Lobby Day” at the beginning…

…silent action in the city centre to raise awareness about the death penalty (photo), and there was an in-house discussion on the arguments for and against the death penalty. Film…

…through with more. The only way to end the death penalty in Indonesia is therefore to abolish it outright. Why are the executions secret? Since the death penalty is debatable,…

…the abolition at the center of political debates. In Tanzania, for instance the newspaper The Citizen stated: “Pressure is mounting to abolish the death penalty”. In Ivory Coast, the newspaper…

…abolition of the death penalty. This paragraph, which also targets abolitionist States, points in the same direction as the campaign led by the World Coalition regarding the Second Optional Protocol…

…previously estimated, systemic problems in the DRC’s judiciary and the question of torture on death row. THE PROFILE OF THOSE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN THE DRC The report found that there…

…fifteen execution warrants have already been signed (one in Georgia, one in South Dakota, one in Arkansas, one in Illinois, one in Oklahoma, two in Louisiana, three in Virginia and…

…the abolition of death penalty in the entire area.“ Filipina Justice Secretary Leila M. De Lima told the conference: “The death penalty kills innocent people. The death penalty disproportionately burdens…

In the margins of the 8th World Congress Against the Death Penalty, member organizations of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (World Coalition) and FIACAT’s African ACATs (Féderation international…

…Death Penalty. The final step for irreversible abolition in Madagascar Madagascar signed the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR in September 2012, during the UN Treaty Event and abolished the…

…the World Coalition’s handbook: ICDP/IPU joint event for parliamentarians in Geneva In Geneva, the International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICDP) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union celebrated the World Day against…

…single comment was made in favor of the death penalty. “People consider the death penalty as a colonial inheritance. No one is in favor of it.  I think it is…

…the death penalty: Promote awareness of World Day Against the Death Penalty on 10 October 2021. Eliminate the death penalty for non-violent offenses, particularly for drug offenses and “crimes of…

…lobby in this direction.” He announced that, on the invitation of the Swiss government, the next World Coalition Against the Death Penalty will take place in Geneva in 2010. International…

…most Caribbean islands retain the death penalty. However, when looking at the practice, Caribbean governments’ calls for the death penalty seem a populist measure to keep the electorate happy,” Javier…

…vast majority of regional and international human rights instruments, including the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which excludes the death penalty. At the domestic level, Burkina Faso was…

…would campaign to achieve a global moratorium on the death penalty by 2015. He also told the 40 experts in human rights and the death penalty in attendance that the…

…as we do in the death penalty domain, to see the faces of the people who are affected first”, commented Piers Bannister, Coordinator of the Amnesty International Death Penalty office….

…row prisoners to highlight inconsistencies in domestic and international law. The civil society of Maldives continues to work with death row prisoners’ families to raise awareness against the death penalty….

…included a conference organized by the International Commission against the Death Penalty. Drawing on the example of 29 abolitionist States, the ICDP questioned the lessons that can be learned in…

…international dimension of the fight against the death penalty. Its ultimate objective is to obtain the universal abolition of the death penalty. The World Coalition is striving to achieve these…

…procedures. To increase the transparency, the UNGA also called upon the States to disaggregate the information on the use of the death penalty by sex, age and race (Paragraph 6(c))….

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

…Provisional Authority in 2003 and there was no reference to the death penalty in the provisional constitution. However, beginning on August 8, 2004, the Interim Iraqi Government, headed by Iyad…

A year-end report published on 17 December 2019 by the Death Penalty Information Center highlights the death penalty usage in the US, public opinion, federal death penalty, and problematic executions….

…or commutation of the sentence”. In the narrow circumstances in which the death penalty may be imposed under international law – which do not include drug trafficking – the criminal…

…Optional Protocol to ICCPR). In July 2012, Benin has also acceded to the Second Optional Protocol. In the United States, the State of Connecticut abolished the death penalty in April…

…row.” Also addressing the New York event, Elizabeth Zitrin (photo) of Death Penalty Focus in the US, representing the World Coalition, presented the 4th World Congress Against the Death Penalty….

…have recently abolished the death penalty, which could lead to the creation of a network of parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty. Maiko Tagusari, the secretary of the…

“The historic moment has arrived!” These jubilant words from the website of World Coalition collaborator Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty echo the feelings of the entire abolitionist community,…

…is in charge of the death penalty at the UNODC, chaired the meeting and re-stated the position of the Office for the abolition of the death penalty. Speedy Rice of…

…June addresses the progress made in the past 10 years and challenges ahead – the theme of the 10th World Day against the Death Penalty. The two-day meeting in Amman…

…and Saudi Arabia remained among the top executioners •    Two countries abolished the death penalty for all crimes (Benin and Nauru); Guinea abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes only….

…of abolition, its report suggests “alternatives” to the use of the death penalty: “First, to reduce the number of death penalty cases in the system by narrowing the list of…

Bhutan, Nepal, Cambodia and the Philippines are the four Asian countries which have abolished the death penalty in domestic law, with Mongolia in the process of following suit after it…

The event is organised by ECPM, in partnership with the World Coalition Against The Death Penalty, FIACAT and the CNDH-CI. More than 300 participants are expected to attend these two…

…most appropriate way to address the arguments for retaining the death penalty in cases of terrorism. The compatibility of the fights against terrorism and against death penalty in Tunisia Basma…

…report: Death Penalty for Drug Offenses, Global Overview 2015. Tripti Tandon, from the Lawyer’s Collective in India explained how they have challenged the constitutionality of the mandatory death penalty in…

…the violent crime rate”, he said Similarly, the assumption that public opinion in the Caribbean overwhelmingly favours the death penalty was refuted by Arif Bulkan from the University of the…

…‘are you in favour of the death penalty’, but ‘are you in favour of letting go of the death penalty for an alternative punishment given all the flaws in the…

…the backdrop of a reduction in the use of the death penalty in the US in the past year. According to statistics compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC),…

…Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP) and the Taiwan section of Amnesty International, both member organisations of the World Coalition. Supporters of the death penalty, including popular performer…

…AFRICA: ADVOCATING FOR MORE RATIFICATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL PROTOCOL TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY The latest ratification of the OP2-ICCPR by Angola this month has increased the hope among citizens…

…the death penalty, 20 have abolished entirely and 21 no longer use it. The question of the death penalty is still very sensitive in the region, which recorded 42 executions…

…that international law can be a useful tool to national leaders: in 2012, Mongolia abolished the death penalty by acceding to the UN Protocol on the death penalty – an…

The World Coalition against the death penalty, the FIDH and the Moroccan Coalition against the Death Penalty are concerned with the continued pronunciation of death sentences by Moroccan courts. The…

…death row, also explained that the abolition of the death penalty is very much in line with Islamic teachings. Although murder is theoretically eligible for the death penalty under Qisas…

…the threat of capital punishment. The Global Consortium for Death Penalty Abolition is led by the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, together with twelve members including 4 co-leads, and…

…its intention to abolish the death penalty, as announced in the human rights plan for the years 2009-2013. In January 2010, Mongolia’s President announced a moratorium on the death penalty…

…“incredibly interesting and promising, connecting many of the Japanese groups, some social, cultural and political and religious forces” in the debate about the death penalty. Very few people in the…

…again.” The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP) has launched the “Shouting from the rooftops” campaign. Its aim is to inform the public that the existence of capital…

…The book argues that Chong does not deserve the death penalty, and calls for stronger safeguards for the rights of death row inmates and defendants in death penalty cases. This…

…Arab country, a public debate was held on the theme of terrorism and the death penalty. According to Together against the death penalty (ECPM), a partner in the event, the…