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Article(s)
Video: meet Taiwan’s anti-death penalty activists
on 16 June 2009
The Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty has just released a clip presenting its work and the status of capital punishment in the country.
2009
Taiwan
Article(s)
Moving towards abolition in the Arab World
on 8 October 2010
NGOs and international organisations opposing the death penalty in Arab countries have met in Egypt for the second time. The World Coalition presented them with a new version of its study on abolition in the region.
2010
Djibouti
Egypt
Public Opinion
Turkey
Yemen
Article(s)
More than 1,000 sentenced to death in Iraq in 8 years
By Dr Nasr Abbood, on 1 March 2012
The Iraqi institutions established after the US-led invasion and the fall of Saddam Hussein have reinstated the death penalty and extended its scope since 2004. In this op-ed article, Iraqi Coalition Against the Death Penalty president Nassr Abood calls for alternative sentences and for a strong stance from the international community.
2012
Drug Offenses
Iraq
Iraq
Terrorism
Article(s)
Advocating for the Adoption of the Draft Protocol by the African Union: A Step in the Right Direction for Abolition in Africa
By Florence Venunye Ayivor-Vieira and Hervé Nsambimana, on 15 December 2023
Advocacy in Addis-Ababa On the 10 October 2023, the FIACAT (International Federation of ACATs), and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, represented by Ms. Florence Ayivor-Vieira of ACAT-Ghana and Mr. Hervé Nsabimana of CODHAS (Centre d’observation des Droits de l’Homme et d’Assistance Sociale), Co-Chairpersons of the World Coalition’s working group on the draft protocol […]
2023
Trend Towards Abolition
Article(s)
Organisation of American States considers moratorium
By Tiziana Trotta, on 15 March 2013
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights warns that litigation is insufficient to combat the death penalty.
2013
Argentina
Brazil
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Guatemala
Mexico
Moratorium
Panama
Suriname
Trinidad and Tobago
United States
Article(s)
Benin on track to achieve abolition
on 7 February 2010
Benin’s President Thomas Yayi Boni, one of the World Congress’s guests, has asked the parliament to enshrine the abolition of the death penalty in the constitution. Justice Minister Victor Tokpanou details Benin’s path to abolition.
2010
Benin
Benin
Public Opinion
Article(s)
Web-Editor
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 9 October 2018
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty is recruiting a Web-editor/Editorial Webmaster for its website.
2018
Article(s)
Abolitionist co-operation at all levels kick-started in Geneva
on 24 February 2010
The first plenary session of the World Congress Against the Death Penalty focused on “increasing cooperation between States, NGOs and international organizations and developing common strategies for a death penalty-free world”.
2010
China
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Moratorium
Switzerland
Article(s)
Mass convictions and executions fuel terrorism in Iraq
By Clémentine Etienne, on 27 June 2018
Mass executions in Iraq since 2017 seem to hide behind the scourge of terrorism, the major argument given by the current government. Will May 2018 elections defeat this government policy and the misuse of the country’s anti-terrorism law to sentence to death?
2018
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Public Opinion
Article(s)
The Rights of Children Whose Parents Are Sentenced to Death – The Case of Tunisia
By Lisa Borden, volunteer with The Advocates for Human Rights, on 30 October 2019
I joined Bronwyn Dudley of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, and Choukri Latif of the Coalition tunissiene contre la peine de mort (a Tunisian anti-death penalty NGO), to address the committee regarding Tunisia’s failure to implement the rights of children whose parents have been sentenced to death or were executed.
2019
Juveniles
Tunisia
Article(s)
Saudi Arabia slammed over child executions, discrimination
on 21 February 2009
United Nations agencies, governments and NGOs criticised Saudi Arabia’s death penalty record at the UN’s universal periodic review of human rights.
2009
Juveniles
Saudi Arabia
Article(s)
Ratification of abolition treaties gathers pace in 2012
By Aurelie Placais, on 20 March 2012
The ratification campaign for the international protocols on the death penalty is on a roll with three new ratifications since January.
2012
Angola
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Cambodia
Honduras
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Mongolia
Poland
Article(s)
São Tomé and Príncipe ratifies OP2 and approves total and definitive abolition of the death penalty
By Elise Guillot, on 18 January 2017
On 10 January 2017, São Tomé and Príncipe ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty and became its 84th State party.
2017
Sao Tome and Principe
Article(s)
Suriname and Haiti to lead abolitionist way in the Caribbean
By Thomas Hubert (in San Juan, Puerto Rico), on 27 June 2014
The World Coalition held its 2014 AGM in abolitionist Puerto Rico and highlighted key regional developments in the fight against the death penalty, which remains on the books of many countries in the Greater Caribbean.
2014
Barbados
Haiti
Jamaica
Puerto Rico
Suriname
Suriname
Trinidad and Tobago
Article(s)
Death penalty: UN General Assembly human rights committee renews call for a moratorium on executions
By Amnesty International, on 23 November 2016
Today the overwhelming majority of UN member states once again threw their weight behind a UN General Assembly draft resolution to establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty. 115 of the UN’s 193 member states voted in favour of the proposal, with only 38 voting against it. The draft will now go before the UN General Assembly plenary for final adoption.
2016
Moratorium
Article(s)
Makwanyane Institute Is Launched at Cornell Law School
By Sherrie Negrea, Cornell Law School, on 17 July 2017
Fifteen capital defense lawyers from eight African countries arrived at Cornell Law School on June 12 to begin eight days of training on how best to represent death penalty clients in the first session of the Makwanyane Institute.
2017
Legal Representation
Article(s)
Death penalty: Global abolition closer than ever as record number of countries vote to end executions
By Amnesty International, on 17 December 2018
A record number of States – 121 out of 193 member states – voted in favour of a moratorium on the death penalty at the United Nations General Assembly on December the 17th. A world without the death penalty may become a reality according to Chiara Sangiorgio, Amnesty International’s Death Penalty Expert.
2018
Moratorium
Article(s)
Second Optional Protocol: An irreversible mechanism for abolishing the death penalty” – Denys Robiliard
on 7 September 2020
Denys Robiliard, a lawyer and former president of Amnesty International’s French section, details why the Second Optional protocol to the UN’s ICCPR is an crucial instrument to push the abolition of the death penalty worldwide.
2020
Afghanistan
Article(s)
Debunking narratives for a return of the death penalty
By Venus Aves, on 13 November 2023
Time and time again, abolitionists have been making the case against the death penalty, highlighting how inhumane, inefficient and unfair it is.
2023
Drug Offenses
Maldives
Philippines
Public Opinion
Sri Lanka
Trend Towards Abolition
Turkey
Article(s)
Discussion at the Human Rights Council of human rights violations related to the use of the death penalty
By Jessica Corredor, on 7 March 2017
From Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, to abolitionist and retentionist government representatives and World Coalition members, participants to the Biennial high-level discussion on death penalty exchanged views in order to address human rights violations related to the use of the death penalty, in particular with respect to the prohibition of torture.
2017
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Article(s)
Petition against the Death Penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 October 2011
139 nations have already abolished the death penalty. In December 2012, the United Nations’ General Assembly will vote on a resolution calling for a worldwide halt to its use. We, the undersigned, in recognition of the five million people who signed the moratorium petition that was handed to the United Nations’ General Assembly in […]
2011
Article(s)
International Conference Against the Death Penalty: abolistionists are united and determined
By Lorène du Crest, on 18 July 2017
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty celebrated its 15th anniversary with an International Conference and its General Assembly on 22-24 June in Washington DC.
2017
Article(s)
UN General Assembly Committee adopts draft moratorium resolution
By Maria Donatelli, on 20 November 2012
A majority of the world’s nations have approved a text calling for a global moratorium on executions, with stronger support than in a previous vote two years ago.
2012
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Botswana
Central African Republic
Croatia
Cuba
Egypt
India
Indonesia
Japan
Malaysia
Maldives
Mauritania
Moratorium
Morocco
Niger
Oman
Singapore
South Sudan
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Tunisia
Viet Nam
Article(s)
The death penalty in the DRC: an illusory means of combating impunity in the face of human rights implementation
By Mr Olivier LUNGWE FATAKI of Pax Christi Uvira, absl, on 30 August 2024
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the States which has retained the death penalty in its legal arsenal, although applies a de facto moratorium on executions since 2003.
2024
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Article(s)
End the death penalty for drug-related offences
on 26 June 2009
June 26 is a world day of action against drugs. Several international NGOs have joined their voices to condemn the use of capital punishment against drug users and traffickers.
2009
China
Drug Offenses
Indonesia
Viet Nam
Article(s)
Reinforcing the Link Between Torture and the Death Penalty: 21st World Day Against the Death Penalty
By Venus Aves, on 17 November 2023
“There is no way in today’s world to apply the death penalty in a legal way, in a way that does not violate international law.” This was the bold and unequivocal assertion of former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan Méndez in an online discussion with UN experts and exonerees organized by the World Coalition […]
2023
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Article(s)
World Coalition welcomes the success of its 15th General Assembly
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2017
More than 50 member organisations of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty gathered for three days on 22-24 June 2017 in Washington DC for the General Assembly of the World Coalition.
2017
Article(s)
World Coalition elects new Steering Committee and Executive Board for two years
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 September 2021
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty held its first 100% virtual General Assembly on 18 June 2021 to elect its new Steering Committee.
2021
Juveniles
Article(s)
UN resolution: the abolitionist front grows stronger again
on 22 December 2010
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty welcomes the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of a third resolution calling for a universal moratorium on the use of the death penalty.
2010
Moratorium
Article(s)
Death penalty and the “war on drugs” discussed during the 60th U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs annual meeting.
By Lorène du Crest, on 31 March 2017
In March 2017, the 60th Commission on Narcotic Drugs annual meeting in Vienna took place. During this meeting, governments have been encouraged to “promote proportionate national sentencing policies for drug-related offences”. The death penalty was addressed during several side events.
2017
Drug Offenses
Public Opinion
Article(s)
Death penalty and mental illness: “Double Tragedies”
on 7 July 2009
Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights and the National Alliance on Mental Illness slam the use of capital punishment against mentally ill people in the United States.
2009
Mental Illness
Murder Victims' Families
United States
Article(s)
Liberia urged not to resume executions
on 9 April 2010
The World Coalition has been active in Liberia and internationally to bring the West African country back into the abolitionist community.
2010
Liberia
Liberia
Article(s)
Human Rights Council tackles death penalty
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 29 March 2013
The UN body in charge of defending and promoting human rights has devoted a large part of its 22nd session to discussing capital punishment and its abolition, and vowed to continue at its next meetings.
2013
Algeria
Belgium
Benin
Costa Rica
Egypt
France
Moldova
Mongolia
Rwanda
Switzerland
United States
Article(s)
Abolitionists slam Liberia’s death penalty at African human rights review
By Rescue Alternatives Liberia (RAL), on 23 May 2014
World Coalition members RAL, FIACAT and FIDH took part in this month’s 55th Session of the African Commission of Human and People’s Rights in Luanda, Angola, which included the periodic review of the situation in Liberia.
2014
Liberia
Article(s)
“Unknown Assailants: A Threat to Human Rights”
By Legal Human Rights Centre, on 4 May 2018
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 violations in Tanzania. This report, while it deals with human rights violation in Tanzania concerning civil and politial rights, freedom of violence, freedom of expression, also presents the death penalty as an issue in the coutnry and called the President for its abolition.
2018
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
United Republic of Tanzania
Article(s)
Belarus ends more than one year without execution
By Daria Gribanova, on 14 April 2014
Despite an execution this month, Amnesty International’s latest annual report on the death penalty shows Belarus did not kill any prisoner last year, meaning Europe and Central Asia was execution-free for the first time since 2009. This achievement bolsters local abolitionists – despite the risks they face in their activism.
2014
Belarus
Belarus
Moratorium
Article(s)
“Look at us with a merciful eye”
By Human Rights Watch, on 5 March 2013
Human Rights Watch is launching a 30-page report on juvenile offenders awaiting execution on Yemen’s death row.
2013
Juveniles
Yemen
Yemen
Article(s)
The unprecedent shift in attitudes towards abolition in the US
By World coalition against the death penaly, on 22 March 2024
The Death Penalty Information Center’s 2023 report highlights a rising trend towards abolition in the US, evidenced by a decrease in states conducting executions and heightened backing for individuals asserting innocence. In 2023, the United States witnessed 24 executions, 21 death sentences, and three exonerations, reflecting this evolving trend.
2024
Trend Towards Abolition
United States
Article(s)
World Coalition calls on Canada to keep up its efforts against the death penalty
on 10 March 2009
The World Coalition has sent a letter to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, asking him to “protect its nationals sentenced to death abroad, whether it is in a democratic country or not”.
2009
Canada
Canada
Clemency
United States
Article(s)
Malawi – five years after abolishing the mandatory death penalty
By Emile Carreau, on 19 September 2012
In 2007 abolitionists celebrated when the High Court of Malawi abolished the mandatory death penalty. In what become known as the Kafanteyeni ruling the mandatory death penalty was deemed by the bench as unconstitutional as it amounts to an arbitrary deprivation of life, denies an accused the right to a fair trial and the right to be free from inhuman and degrading treatment.
2012
Malawi
Article(s)
Africa takes a good look at the death penalty
on 5 August 2008
A working group of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights is preparing a report on capital punishment on the continent.
2008
Eswatini
Moratorium
Article(s)
The Sunny Center
By Jessica Corredor, on 30 July 2018
“Extraordinary things can happen to ordinary people and still be OK »The Sunny Center is a place like no other place in the world. Perched on the top of a hill, it is surrounded by lakes and hills that multiply as far as the eye can see. The landscape is breath-taking. But the landscape is nothing compared to the founders of the Sunny Center. Sunny Jacobs, 72, and Peter Pringle, soon 80, began welcoming innocent people into their homes in 2011.
2018
Death Row Conditions
Innocence
Ireland
Article(s)
Arab abolitionists organise to act together
on 8 August 2007
Abolitionists in the Arab World have been generating increased mobilisation and improved co-ordination, with the assistance of Penal Reform International, a member of the World Coalition.
2007
Algeria
Egypt
Jordan
Lebanon
Moratorium
Morocco
State of Palestine
Tunisia
Yemen
Article(s)
Singapore breaks three-year moratorium on executions
on 21 July 2014
On 18 July 2014, Singapore executed two death row prisoners, Tang Hai Liang, 36, and Foong Chee Peng, 48, bringing to an end a three-year official moratorium established by the government in 2011 as part of the review process of the mandatory death penalty.
2014
Moratorium
Singapore
Article(s)
European Union tightens rules on export of death drug
By Emile Carreau, on 20 January 2012
On 20 December 2011 the European Commission added sodium thiopental to the list of goods that are subject to tight export controls to ensure they do not find their way into overseas death chambers.
2012
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Denmark
United States
Article(s)
Congo’s Presidential Election Strengthens the Controversial New Constitution that Abolished Capital Punishment
By Delphine Lourtau and Marion Gauer, on 20 April 2016
On March 20, 2016, a tense presidential election in the Republic of the Congo resulted in the re-election of President Denis Sassou Nguesso, who has been in power for a total of 32 years. One of the election’s least discussed outcomes is its solidification of the new constitution that President Sassou introduced last year and that provides for abolition of the death penalty.
2016
Congo
Article(s)
Capital punishment abolished in Suriname
By Parliamentarians for Global Action, on 6 March 2015
The Parliament of Suriname (photo) has abolished the death penalty in law, setting an example for the Greater Caribbean – a major front line in the global fight against capital punishment. World Coalition member organisation Parliamentarians for Global Action provided crucial support for abolition in Suriname.
2015
Suriname
Suriname
Article(s)
Death sentences and executions in 2015
By Amnesty International, on 10 April 2016
This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2015. As in previous years, information is collected from a variety of sources, including: official figures; information from individuals sentenced to death and their families and representatives; reporting by other civil society organizations; and media reports. Amnesty International reports only on executions, death sentences and other aspects of the use of the death penalty, such as commutations and exonerations, where there is reasonable confirmation.
2016
Article(s)
Activists oppose the death penalty across Asia
on 30 October 2008
Although European activists were slow to take action on World Day Against the Death Penalty, their Asian counterparts showed their strength, especially in the World Coalition’s target countries.
2008
India
Japan
Mongolia
Pakistan
Public Opinion
Republic of Korea
Taiwan
Article(s)
Japan executions slammed
on 30 July 2009
The Japanese authorities hanged three death row inmates on July 28, attracting criticism throughout Asia and beyond.
2009
Japan
Article(s)
US executions drop below 40 in 2013
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 20 December 2013
According to the Death Penalty Information Center’s annual report, the number of death sentences in the United States has remained near record lows, a new State repealed capital punishment and public support for the death penalty fell to a 40-year low.
2013
Public Opinion
United States
Article(s)
The Law Commission of India (Almost) calls for Abolition
By Elisa Belotti, on 15 September 2015
The Law Commission of India published in August 2015 a Report on death penalty in which it recommends India to move towards the abolition of death penalty, with an exception for terrorism related crimes.
2015
India
Article(s)
A new decline in the use of the death penalty in the US in 2016
By Elise Guillot, on 17 January 2017
With 30 death sentences pronounced and 20 executions carried out, the use of the death penalty in the USA saw a new record decline in 2016, as reported in the Death Penalty Information Center’s year-end report. Nevertheless, the abolitionists are worried that 2017 may not be so successful.
2017
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Public Opinion
United States
Article(s)
The Death Penalty for Drug Offences, A Global Overview 2017
By Harm Reduction International, on 26 March 2018
This report identifies 33 countries and territories that retain the death penalty for drug offences, including nine in which the sentence is mandatory. Hundreds of people continue to be executed for non-violent drug offences every year by a small minority of States committed to aggressively pursuing extremely harsh penalties for drug crimes, in clear violation of international law.
2018
Drug Offenses
Article(s)
Saudi Arabia’s false promise on the use of the death penalty
By European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights, on 6 February 2019
With 149 executions in 2018, one of the highest rates since the 1990’s, the Saudi Kingdom seems to be locking itself into a violent authoritarian drift
2019
Saudi Arabia
Article(s)
First symposium on the abolition of the death penalty in Niger
By Nigerien Coalition against the Death Penalty, on 17 October 2018
October 10 2018, Niamey, National Human Rights Commission CNDH NIGER. The Nigerien Coalition against the Death Penalty and the Nigerien abolitionist movement in Niger (SYNAFEN, NGO REPRODEVH NIGER, ACAT NIGER) organized the First National Symposium on the Contribution to the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Niger, following the theme “DIGNITY FOR ALL” and entitled: “Living Conditions of those under Life Imprisonment in Niger’s prisons and pleading in favour of Niger’s vote on the draft Additional Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Africa…”, under the sponsorship of the President of the CNDH NIGER Professor KALID IKIRI.
2018
Death Row Conditions
Article(s)
A challenge to the abolitionist movement
By Sandra Babcock, on 16 December 2011
Over the last few decades, we have made great strides toward the universal abolition of the death penalty. Nevertheless, despite the progress we have made, the death penalty remains entrenched in a significant number of states. And even in those nations that have refrained from carrying out executions in a sort of de facto moratorium, […]
2011
Intellectual Disability
Malawi
Mental Illness
Mexico
Moratorium
United States
Article(s)
World Congress Against the Death Penalty
By Thomas Hubert & Tiziana Trotta, on 12 June 2013
The World Congress is taking place in Madrid between 12-15 June 2013. During three days, it unites members of international civil society, politicians, and legal experts to elaborate abolitionist strategies for the years to come at the national, regional, and international levels, and to send out a clear message to the world: that universal abolition is essential for a world where progress and justice must prevail.
2013
Spain
Article(s)
California Democratic Party endorses abolition of the death penalty
on 12 May 2010
One of the two main political parties in the largest US State has taken a formal stance against capital punishment – with help from local abolitionist organisations.
2010
Public Opinion
United States
Article(s)
World Day campaign launched!
on 13 August 2007
The countdown to the fifth World Day Against the Death Penalty on October 10 has begun. It will focus on the proposed resolution against capital punishment to be discussed in the UN this autumn.
2007
Moratorium
Article(s)
Progressive abolition of the death penalty and alternative sanctions
By PRI - FHRI, on 15 February 2013
World Coalition member organisations PRI and FHRI launch a small grants programme for local NGOs on the abolition of the death penalty and humane alternative sanctions in nine countries.
2013
Article(s)
Experts analyse the relationship between poverty and the death penalty
By Dr. Lina M. Torres Rivera, on 18 June 2018
The International Studies Programme Overseas Relations Assembly and the Institute for Human Rights Research and Promotion (INIPRODEH) organised a forum: The Death Penalty and Poverty on the 89th anniversary of abolition of the death penalty in Puerto Rico. Eminent figures from the abolitionist movement and academia reviewed and analysed research into this issue.
2018
Puerto Rico
Article(s)
Regarding the execution in Japan of seven people
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 July 2018
STATEMENT – WORLD COALITION AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty would like to express its sympathy and support to all courageous anti-death penalty activists who have fought bravely to try to prevent the executions of seven people in Japan on the same day, on 6 July. The World Coalition calls […]
2018
Japan
Article(s)
To escape the death penalty: be rich and kill a foreigner
on 24 February 2010
The racial origin of the victim and the social class of the criminal are key factors of discrimination.
2010
Bahrain
Fair Trial
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
Article(s)
Notes on the Supreme Court Trial in the Chen Fu-hsiang Case: Life or Death Debates in the Style of ChatGPT
By Lin Tzu-Wei (Legal Director of the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty), on 14 July 2023
Article first published in april on TAEDP’s website Return of life or death debates Following the previous oral arguments on death penalty cases at the Supreme Court in 2021, another life or death debate took place in April this year. This time, I had the opportunity to attend the oral arguments of the “Chen Fu-hsiang […]
2023
Taiwan
Article(s)
Youths must stand up against the death penalty!
on 17 September 2007
The Federation of Liberal Students (FEL), a Belgian political organisation, has just joined the World Coalition. FEL president Arnaud Van Praet explains his organisation’s mobilisation against capital punishment.
2007
Belgium
Article(s)
Calendar of events for World Day
By WCADP, on 10 September 2013
On 10 October 2013, the World Day Against the Death Penalty is focusing on the death penalty in the Greater Caribbean. Browse the schedule and the map to prepare and promote the events planned around the world on the big day.
2013
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Article(s)
From Italian prisons to Texas death row
on 27 March 2008
A conference held near Naples, Italy last month helped around 200 attendees, most of them secondary school students, understand the death penalty situation in the US and relate it to prison issues in their own country.
2008
Death Row Conditions
Italy
United States
Article(s)
Hands Off Cain holds moratorium conference in Gabon
on 11 December 2007
The Italian-based abolitionist group organised the event in Libreville on December 10, Human Rights Day 2007, with the government of Gabon and financial backing from the Dutch government.
2007
Burundi
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Gabon
Gabon
Mali
Moratorium
Article(s)
1,700-mile “Walk4Life” across the US
on 13 March 2008
American hip-hop artist Andre Latallade, also known as Capital-“X”, will walk 1,700 miles from New Jersey to Texas from March 31 to campaign against the death penalty.
2008
Drug Offenses
United States
Article(s)
Justice ministers meet on the eve of Cities Against the Death Penalty
By Elizabeth Zitrin (World Coalition vice-president), in Rome, on 1 December 2013
More than 20 ministers of justice met in Rome for the annual conference on the abolition of the death penalty organised by the Community of Sant’Egidio and heard harrowing testimonies from courageous activists.
2013
Afghanistan
Belarus
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Italy
Philippines
Senegal
Switzerland
United States
Article(s)
Global outrage at Iranian juvenile execution
on 6 May 2009
Human rights organisations and governments worldwide have slammed the Iranian authorities for the illegal execution of Delara Darabi, a young woman convicted of a murder committed when she was 17.
2009
Innocence
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Juveniles
Article(s)
Algerian MPs want to abolish the death penalty
on 9 December 2008
A group of Algerian parliamentarians has filed a bill aimed at abolishing capital punishment. The World Coalition supports their campaign to have the proposed legislation passed.
2008
Algeria
Moratorium
Article(s)
Open letter to the China National People’s Congress
on 26 February 2008
The World Coalition and ADPAN are publicising an open letter to the China National People’s Congress demanding concrete steps towards the abolition of the death penalty in China.
2008
China
Fair Trial
Moratorium
Article(s)
Africa moving towards regional abolition treaty
on 5 October 2009
The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights organised its first regional conference on the death penalty in Africa in late September.
2009
Moratorium
Rwanda
Article(s)
Research Assistant
By Death Penalty Worldwide, Cornell Law School and World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 February 2016
Death Penalty Worldwide of Cornell University Law School and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty invite applications for a five-month internship placement in Paris from March to July 2016.
2016
Article(s)
Internship opportunity at Centre on the Death Penalty, NLU Delhi
By NLU Delhi, on 1 April 2016
The Centre on the Death Penalty is keen to develop a robust and rewarding internship programme that will provide meaningful exposure to the complexities and nuances, in particular, of the administration of the death penalty and the criminal justice system in India more generally, therefore the centre introduces internship program where they accept interns on rolling basis.
2016
India
Article(s)
Bahrain: Joint appeal for commutation and moratorium
By Salam for Democracy and Human Rights, on 13 January 2022
Joint Appeal was published on World Day Against the Death Penlaty on 10 October 2021 and sent to the Bahraini Embassy in France, UK and Switzerland.
2022
Bahrain
Clemency
Moratorium
Article(s)
Country-by-country death penalty data now available
By Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law, on 19 April 2011
A new statistic and legal database designed by Northwestern University in partnership with the World Coalition offers a unique view of the use of capital punishment in more than 90 states.
2011
Article(s)
800 cities light up for life
on 17 November 2008
On November 30, monuments in nearly 800 cities across the globe will light up to celebrate “Cities for Life – Cities Against the Death Penalty”.
2008
Italy
Public Opinion
Article(s)
Gabon quietly joins the abolitionist camp
on 4 March 2011
The West African nation outlawed the death penalty in February 2010 and then kept the secret for over a year.
2011
Gabon
Gabon
Moratorium
Article(s)
Cities for Life 2016: Let’s stay vigilant
By Emmanuel Trépied, on 19 December 2016
On 30 November, the International Day of “Cities for Life” was celebrated around the world. An opportunity to raise awareness among the civil society on the universal abolition.
2016
Public Opinion
Article(s)
“It’s in Africa that we find the strongest dynamics towards abolition”
By Clémentine Etienne, on 24 April 2018
The third regional Congress against the death penalty was held in Côte d’Ivoire, in Abidjan, in 2018 from April 9 to 10th. This is a natural choice when one can know that Africa is named “next abolitionist continent” and that civil society recognized it as such.
2018
Article(s)
Four World Coalition members among NCADP award winners
on 3 February 2008
Each year, the US National Coalition Against the Death Penalty honours those individuals and organisations that have made outstanding contributions to the struggle against the death penalty. This year’s award winners included a number of World Coalition members.
2008
United States
Article(s)
Armenia and Angola Commit to Irreversible Abolition
By Aurelie Placais, on 4 October 2019
Following the United Nations Treaty Event in New York, two more states have committed to irreversible abolition of the death penalty by signing and ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (OP2-ICCPR). The Protocol was highlighted by the United Nations […]
2019
Angola
Armenia
Article(s)
National conference gives Lebanese abolitionist movement a boost
By Thomas Hubert, on 14 February 2014
Several hundred activists, experts and political leaders met in Beirut at the end of January to push the abolitionist cause with the Lebanese authorities and organise their movement at the national level.
2014
Lebanon
Moratorium
Article(s)
Fear of mass executions in Iraq
on 4 January 2010
Information obtained by the World Coalition suggests that the Iraqi authorities have been planning the mass execution of nearly 1,000 people. In a column offered to international newspapers, the World Coalition denounces that barbaric plan.
2010
Clemency
Iraq
Iraq
Women
Article(s)
Web-Editor
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 17 October 2016
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty is recruiting a Web-editor for its website.
2016
Article(s)
A World Without the Death Penalty – IX Congress of the Ministers of Justice
By Federica Merenda, on 29 February 2016
On 22 February 2016, the representatives of more than twenty countries gathered in Rome for the 9th International Congress of the Ministers of Justice « A World without the death penalty », organized by the Community of Sant’Egidio and hosted by the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Burundi, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Congo, El Salvador, Guinea Conakry, Cȏte d’Ivoire, Mali, Mongolia, Rwanda, Somalia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Timor-Leste, Togo, Uganda, Viet Nam, Zimbabwe are the countries who joined Italy in the last edition of this annual conference.
2016
Article(s)
Madagascar’s MPs abolish the death penalty
on 10 December 2014
The National Assembly of Madagascar adopted a bill that abolishes the death penalty on 10 December, World Human Rights Day.
2014
Madagascar
Madagascar
Article(s)
Flurry of educational events on World Day Against the Death Penalty
on 6 November 2009
An abolitionist wave of marches, cultural happenings, petition signings and educational events swept across the world for the 7th World Day on October 10.
2009
Australia
Clemency
Democratic Republic of the Congo
India
Indonesia
Innocence
Public Opinion
Taiwan
United States
Article(s)
Moroccan Coalition tackles death penalty for terrorism
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 13 March 2015
The Moroccan Coalition against the Death Penalty held its AGM in Rabat on 27 and 28 February. An unprecedented debate around the death penalty related to terrorism took place during the event.
2015
Morocco
Terrorism
Article(s)
Abolition in Africa- 77th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
By Yasin Sentumbwe Munagomba and Bronwyn Dudley, on 12 January 2024
The ACHPR (African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights) 77th Public Ordinary Session was held in Arusha, Tanzania from 20 October – 9 November 2023.
2024
Gender
Trend Towards Abolition
Uganda
United Republic of Tanzania
Article(s)
7th Congress – The new challenges of the abolitionist movement
By Louis Linel, on 5 March 2019
The actors involved in the universal abolition of the death penalty outlined the new challenges ahead in the fight for the right to life.
2019
Public Opinion
Article(s)
Discussing the Death Penalty for Drug Crimes at the Human Rights Council
By Elisa Bellotti, on 30 September 2015
The Advocates for Human Rights and Together against the Death Penalty (ECPM), in partnership with other members of the World Coalition, organized a Round Table on the issue of the death penalty for drug-related crimes. The event took place during the 30th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, on September 28, 2015.
2015
Drug Offenses
Article(s)
Greater Caribbean for Life responds to the call for the resumption of the death penalty in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
By Greater Caribbean for Life and Emmanuel Trépied, on 21 July 2017
Emotions are running high in Trinidad and Tobago because of “runaway crime,” and once again the country finds itself in the throes of looking for ways in which to resume hanging. The Greater Caribbean for Life (GCL) urges Trinidad and Tobago’s government to focus on human development and crime prevention rather than expend time and energy in seeking to resume hanging.
2017
Trinidad and Tobago
Article(s)
NGO Forum & The ACHPR: A broad overview of African prisons amidst tensions
By Jessica Corredor, on 16 November 2018
The NGO Forum, preceding the ACHPR session, was held from 20 to 23 October 2018, with “The Fight against Corruption” as its main topic.
2018
Death Row Conditions
Legal Representation
Article(s)
Shedding light on judicial blunders can help achieve abolition
By Tiziana Trotta, on 14 June 2013
Several organizations are condemning executions of innocent people because of wrongful convictions.
2013
Innocence
Spain
Taiwan
Tunisia
United States
Article(s)
World Coalition AGM among largest abolitionist events in the Arab world
on 6 June 2011
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty has announced its June annual general assembly at a press conference in Rabat, Morocco.
2011
Morocco
Article(s)
California’s moratorium holds
on 11 October 2010
A few days out from the World Day Against the Death Penalty, California has decided not to resume executions. A shortage of one of the drugs used for lethal injections gives death row inmates and abolitionists more time to continue the legal battle.
2010
Clemency
Mental Illness
Moratorium
United States