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Abolitionist advocacy at the 89th CEDAW Session
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 2 December 2024
The 89th session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) took place in Geneva, Switzerland, from 7 to 25 October 2024.
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Gender
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Women
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Collective reflection to support women and LGBTQIA+ people facing the death penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 2 December 2024
The Gender and the Death Penalty seminar organized by the World Coalition in Philadelphia in September 2024 enabled to explore new abolitionist strategies. The event brought together organizations from 11 countries for stimulating exchanges.
Gender
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Call for a ceasefire and the right to life in Gaza
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 29 September 2024
The World Coalition is an alliance of more than 160 NGOs, bar associations, local authorities and unions. It aims to strengthen the international dimension of the fight against the death penalty. Its objective is to obtain the universal abolition of the death penalty. As a human rights network fighting against the death penalty and state-sponsored […]
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State of Palestine
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Access to justice and discrimination: the World Coalition organizes a briefing for the UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 26 September 2024
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Gender
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Key Outcomes from the 79th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
By Isabella Ataides, on 26 September 2024
From 14 May to 3 June 2024, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) held its 79th Ordinary Session in a hybrid format. Members of the Commission and staff of its Secretariat physically attended the Session in Banjul, Gambia; all other participants attended the Session online via Zoom.
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Trend Towards Abolition
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NGOs voice fears for dozens of Egyptian prisoners, and hundreds of others, facing execution for drugs-related offenses in Saudi Arabia
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 13 September 2024
We, the undersigned organisations, are gravely fearful for the lives of hundreds of prisoners threatened with imminent execution in Saudi Arabia on drugs-related charges, including 33 Egyptians on a single wing of Tabuk Prison.
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Drug Offenses
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Saudi Arabia
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Abolition of the death penalty at the United Nations Human Rights Council 55th session
on 13 September 2024
The United Nations Human Rights Council met for its 55th Regular Session from February 26 to April 5, 2024. If you missed it, here is what happened regarding the abolition of the death penalty!
Trend Towards Abolition
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Abolition of the death penalty at the United Nations Human Rights Council 54th session
on 30 August 2024
The United Nations Human Rights Council met for its 54th Regular Session from September 11 to October 13, 2023. If you missed it, here is what happened regarding the abolition of the death penalty!
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Trend Towards Abolition
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Abolition of the death penalty at the United Nations Human Rights Council 56th session
on 30 August 2024
The United Nations Human Rights Council met for its 56th Regular Session from June 18 to July 12, 2024. If you missed it, here is what happened regarding the abolition of the death penalty!
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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.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
