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Article(s)
Director (Research)
By Project 39A, on 14 June 2018
The National Law University, Delhi (“University”) is seeking to engage on a contractual basis, one Director (Research) for Project 39A.
2018
India
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Article(s)
China rejects all UN recommendations on death penalty use
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 24 March 2014
“China’s position is to retain the death penalty, but strictly and prudently limit its application according to law,” said the world’s top executioner after it rejected all 20 UPR recommendations to curb capital punishment.
2014
China
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Article(s)
3rd Regional Congress Against the Death Penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 13 March 2018
The African Congress will be held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on 9-10 April 2018. Over 300 participants are expected.
2018
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Article(s)
Strong mobilization in Sub-Saharan Africa on World Day
By Thalia Gerzso, on 19 October 2017
On October 10, 2017, all the abolitionists all around the world joined their forces to celebrate the 15th World Day Against the Death Penalty. The mobilization was particularly strong in Sub-Saharan Africa where many events were organized. Thus, the pugnacity of African abolitionists put the abolition of the death penalty at the heart of every discussion.
2017
Public Opinion
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Article(s)
Democratic Republic of the Congo: the abolitionists organize workshops for journalists
By Thalia Gerzso, on 25 September 2017
Concerned by the population’s view on the death penalty, the Human Rights Defenders and Abolitionist Advocates in Democratic Republic of the Congo Network [Réseau des associations de défense des droits de l’homme et militants abolitionnistes de la peine de mort en République Démocratique du Congo (RADHOMA)] organized several training courses for journalists in the past few months.
2017
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Public Opinion
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Article(s)
New study shows Taiwan death penalty violates human rights standards
By The Death Penalty Project, on 8 June 2014
Collaboration between World Coalition member organisations The Death Penalty Project and Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty follows acceleration of executions in the country.
2014
Taiwan
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Article(s)
Abolitionist Challenges for 2013 in Puerto Rico
By Puerto Rican Coalition against the Death Penalty, on 7 March 2013
This annual report covers the situation of death penalty cases involving Puerto Ricans who face death penalty proceedings in the federal jurisdiction, as well as in those states of the US where such punishment is strictly upheld, and one case of petition for extradition.
2013
United States
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Article(s)
Lawyers’ manual published in traditional Chinese
By Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty, on 30 November 2013
On the occasion of Cities for Life Day on November 30, the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP) and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty are proud to announce the online publication of the Chinese version of Representing Individuals Facing the Death Penalty: A Best Practices Manual. This publication is intended for lawyers who defend people facing the death penalty around the world.
2013
China
Legal Representation
Taiwan
Taiwan
Article(s)
Nie Shubin: a victim of the arbitrary in China
on 21 January 2008
In the lead up to the Beijing Olympics, the French coalition Collectif Chine JO 2008 highlights cases of human rights abuse in China on a weekly basis. This week, they focus on Nie Shubin, who was executed by mistake in 1995.
2008
China
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Women
Article(s)
While we wait for the Supreme Court
on 17 January 2008
After the Supreme Court held a hearing much awaited by the abolitionist community on January 7th, we all need to reassess our strategy for abolition in America, writes Sandrine Ageorges.
2008
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Public Opinion
United States
Article(s)
New Jersey sets an example for US states
on 8 January 2008
The abolition of the death penalty in New Jersey on December 17 could pave the way for other US states. Death Penalty Focus’s Speedy Rice explains how some of them may make the move.
2008
Public Opinion
United States
Article(s)
EU diplomats team up with US activists to co-ordinate efforts against the death penalty
on 18 December 2008
The French presidency of the European Union organised a meeting between EU diplomats and US abolitionists in November to strengthen a discreet but long-standing partnership.
2008
Innocence
Public Opinion
United States
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Article(s)
The Flaws of Deterrence Theory for Capital Punishment
By Fiacat, on 23 February 2021
Joint Oral Statement delivered during the United Nations 46th Human Rights Council Biennial high-level panel discussion on the question of the death penalty.
2021
Public Opinion
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Article(s)
Widespread and systematic violations of human rights in Iran
By Impact Iran, on 12 March 2021
Joint letter sent to Member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council on 12 March 2021
2021
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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Article(s)
68th Ordinary Session African Commission on Human & Peoples’ Rights- Anti-Death Penalty Advocacy Continues
By Bronwyn Dudley, on 11 June 2021
The ACHPR (the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights) met virtually for its 68th Ordinary Session from 14 April – 4 May 2021.
2021
Terrorism
Women
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Article(s)
PRESS RELEASE – Indignation after 30 death sentences in Kinshasa
By Michel Kalemba, Suzanne Mangomba, Xavière Prugnard and Bertin Leblanc, on 4 August 2021
Kinshasa, Paris, May 27, 2021 Our organizations denounce the recent death sentences handed down by the High Court of Gombe, in the center of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, following violence against the forces of order.
2021
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Fair Trial
Legal Representation
Moratorium
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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
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Article(s)
“Frightening” increase of executions in Iran
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 20 June 2024
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) reports that at least 243 people, including 10 women, have been executed in 2024, as of 15 June. In 2023, the number of people executed has increased from 582 to 834. At least 471 people were executed for drug-related offenses. This represent a 84% increase compared to 2022 (256).
2024
Drug Offenses
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Article(s)
World Forum an opportunity to gather abolitionists
on 4 July 2008
As the World Coalition held its general meeting in Nantes at the end of June, discussions focussed on the involvement of corporations and local authorities.
2008
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
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Article(s)
Ivory Coast invited to ratify the UN Protocol on the death penalty
By Guillaume Colin (FIACAT), on 27 November 2013
World Coalition member organization FIACAT has taken part in a follow up mission to the Ivory Coast after the African human rights body issued the country with recommendations including ratifying the treaty that copperfastens abolition.
2013
Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire
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Article(s)
Belize PM aims to amend constitution to resume executions
on 9 June 2011
The Government of the small Caribbean nation has recently introduced a Constitution Amendment Bill, which seeks to make it clear that the death penalty is not unconstitutional.
2011
Belize
Belize
Legal Representation
Trinidad and Tobago
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Article(s)
Children of people sentenced to death attract the UN’s attention
By Léa Macarez, on 19 September 2013
The UN Human Rights Council brought together representatives from civil society, States and the UN itself to discuss the rights of children whose parents are sentenced to death or executed.
2013
Juveniles
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Article(s)
Pakistani authorities urged to renew moratorium
By Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, on 8 July 2013
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, a World Coalition member, has called on the government formed following recent elections to suspend executions. A previous moratorium order has expired and many prisoners are at risk of being hanged.While the 2008 moratorium was introduced under the rule of the Pakistan People Party, whose former leader Benazir Bhutto was a well-known abolitionist, it expired shortly after Nawaz Sharif of the Pakistan Muslim League became Prime minister.
Pakistan had already broken the moratorium when it executed a soldier in November 2012.
2013
Moratorium
Pakistan
Pakistan
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Article(s)
Texas maintains distance from abolitionist trend after 500th execution
By Léa Macarez, on 4 July 2013
52 year-old black woman Kimberly McCarthy was executed on 26 June and became the 500th prisoner put to death since Texas restored the death penalty in 1982.
2013
United States
Women
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Article(s)
Linking the death penalty and torture to achieve abolition
By Thomas Hubert, on 20 June 2013
Recognising the process from sentencing to execution as a form of torture would ensure progress towards abolition in international law as well as in the US.
2013
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
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Article(s)
EU regrets difficulties in dialogue with Belarus
By Tiziana Trotta, on 16 June 2013
European Union officials and Belarusian activists denounce Minsk’s lack of political will to tackle the death penalty.
2013
Belarus
Belarus
Public Opinion
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Article(s)
Call for world lawyers to unite against the death penalty
By Thomas Hubert, on 15 June 2013
The Paris Bar Association (a World Coalition member) and its Beirut counterpart have called on lawyers worldwide to increase efforts to defend those facing the death penalty and to push for its abolition.
2013
Legal Representation
Moratorium
Spain
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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)
Trinidad and Tobago narrowly avoids resumption of executions
on 8 March 2011
A bill which aimed to facilitate executions in the Caribbean nation was defeated in Parliament on February 28.
2011
Public Opinion
Trinidad and Tobago
Article(s)
E Book review: a guidebook to the death penalty in Asia
on 10 March 2009
A new, authoritative study sheds a new light on capital punishment across Asia and may help abolitionists enhance their strategies.
2009
China
Japan
Philippines
Republic of Korea
Taiwan
Viet Nam
Article(s)
Community of Sant’Egidio meets the president of Mongolia
on 7 October 2010
A delegation of the Community of Sant’Egidio has been invited from 6 to 11 September in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, and received by the President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdor.
2010
Mongolia
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)
After the debates, the victims’ emotions
on 28 February 2010
A large crowd gathered at Geneva’s Bâtiment des Forces Motrices Thursday evening to listen to the poignant stories of thirteen victims allied by their commitment to abolition.
2010
Article(s)
Final Declaration 4th World Congress Against the Death Penalty
on 26 February 2010
The participants to the World Congress Against the Death Penalty have handed over their final declaration to the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay.
2010
Moratorium
Article(s)
Pardons and commutations in Nigeria
on 29 August 2009
Shortly after Kenya commuted thousands of death sentences, the Nigerian state of Lagos took similar steps and moved closer to abolition.
2009
Clemency
Nigeria
Nigeria
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)
Burundi abolishes the death penalty
on 29 April 2009
Burundi’s new penal code, which abolishes the death penalty, was signed into law on April 22. ACAT-Burundi chairman Merius Rusumo recounts the campaign’s success.
2009
Burundi
Burundi
Article(s)
Is the death penalty a cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment under international law?
on 20 March 2009
Special Rapporteur Manfred Nowak raised the issue at the UN’s Human Rights Council, triggering a debate in which World Coalition member organisations had their say.
2009
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
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Article(s)
World Coalition members share knowledge on UN advocacy
By Asil Abuassba (The Advocates for Human Rights), on 19 February 2015
Asil Abuassba, a Palestinian intern with World Coalition member organisation The Advocates for Human Rights, attended a training session to help global activists submit reports on the death penalty situation in their countries to UN bodies.
2015
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Death Row Conditions
Fair Trial
Innocence
Intellectual Disability
Juveniles
Mental Illness
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Article(s)
Closing ceremony of the project « My pencil for abolition » at the French Ministry of foreign affairs
By Marion Gauer, on 27 May 2016
On May 23rd, 2016, the closing ceremony of the project “My pencil for abolition” took place at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This project was organized by the team of “Educating and Raising Awareness on Abolition” in the association Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM): it consisted in involving a few middle and high school’s classes, from Lorraine, Belfort and the Parisian region, in the elaboration of articles and cartoons in order to create a magazine committed to the abolition of the death penalty, known as the Abolition Mag.
2016
Public Opinion
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Article(s)
ADPAN network strengthens abolitionists across Asia
By Aurélie Plaçais (in Taipei, Taiwan), on 9 December 2014
The Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, a coalition hosted by Amnesty International in London since 2006, has become an independent organisation registered in Malaysia and held its first AGM in Taipei, Taiwan on 4-5 December.
2014
China
Japan
Malaysia
Mongolia
Public Opinion
Republic of Korea
Taiwan
Taiwan
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Article(s)
ECPM takes social media campaign to the fair ground
By Bronwyn Dudley, on 16 September 2014
World Coalition member organisation Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM) was at September’s Fête de l’Humanité in Paris to spread awareness of the 12th World Day Against the Death Penalty on October 10.
2014
France
Intellectual Disability
Mental Illness
Article(s)
Hank Skinner’s execution stayed amid international action
on 25 March 2010
The American death row inmate heard the news less than one hour before he was scheduled to die. From Huntsville to Paris, activists demand that new evidence be examined.
2010
Innocence
United States
Article(s)
Activists from Burundi, Rwanda and DR Congo join forces
on 3 December 2008
The Great Lakes Regional Coalition Against the Death Penalty held its first meeting on November 17 in Kinshasa. Its lobbying efforts have accelerated Burundi’s legislative process.
2008
Burundi
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Moratorium
Rwanda
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Article(s)
With 969 executions, 2015 turns out to be the deadliest year in Iran since 1990
By Marion Gauer, on 4 April 2016
This 8th annual report (released by Iran Human Rights and Ensemble contre la peine de mort) deals with the number of executions, the trend compared to previous years, the charges, the geographic distribution, as well as the monthly breakdown of the executions in Iran in 2015. These two organizations have been collaborating since 2011, in order to provide annual assessment and analysis of the death penalty trends in Iran. The 2015 report is the result of hard work from IHR members and supporters who took part in the documenting, analyzing and writing of its content.
2016
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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Article(s)
Connecticut increases momentum for abolition
By Elizabeth Zitrin, on 13 April 2012
Lawmakers in the US State of Connecticut have abolished capital punishment and the State’s governor has said that he would sign the bill into law. Elizabeth Zitrin of the US NGO Death Penalty Focus chairs the World Coalition’s working group on the United States. She writes on the significance of this news for the wider abolitionist movement.
2012
Murder Victims' Families
United States
Article(s)
Moving towards an inter-Arab coalition against the death penalty
on 1 May 2007
As of today, no country in North Africa and the Middle-East has yet abolished the death penalty. However, there are positive signs that the region is now ready to debate the issue – as can be seen from the profusion of discussions and exchanges that took place during the 3 rd World Congress against the Death Penalty.
2007
Public Opinion
Women
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
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Article(s)
China’s “efforts to gradually reduce the application of the death penalty”
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 30 October 2014
Following a decision by the Communist Party’s Central Committee in November 2013 to “gradually reduce the number of crimes punishable by death”, a draft amendment to China’s criminal law was submitted for initial review to the country’s National People’s Congress this week.
2014
China
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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