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Abolitionist community appalled at Bangladeshi court ruling

By Emile Carreau, on 8 November 2013

the death penalty Florence Bellivier said: “The government of Bangladesh should join the international trend towards the abolition of the death penalty and immediately commute the death sentences into lesser…

2013

Bangladesh

Death Row Conditions 

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Overcoming the isolation of the people sentenced to death and their relatives

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 September 2018

…sentenced to death, the families and relatives, as well as the lawyers. There are many ways in which the civil society organisations can support the people sentenced to death and…

2018

Death Row Conditions 

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Singapore Executes People Sentenced to Death for Non-violent Crimes and Threatens their Lawyers

By Dinda Royhan, on 19 September 2019

…Singapore is among 35 countries that retain the death penalty for drug offences, Harm Reduction International highlighted.   The recently amended Misuse of Drugs Act stipulated that the accused could…

2019

Drug Offenses

Legal Representation

Singapore

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Malawi Supreme Court Reverses Abolition Decision

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 18 August 2022

On 30 April 2021, the World Coalition published the following article on the abolition of the death penalty in Malawi. Since its publication, the abolitionist status of the country has…

2022

Malawi

ANNUAL REPORT ON THE DEATH PENALTY IN IRAN 2020

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At least 267 People Executed in Iran in 2020 Despite COVID-19 Pandemic

By Iran Human Rights and Ensemble Contre La Peine de Mort (ECPM), on 5 May 2021

The 13th annual report on the death penalty by Iran Human Rights (IHR) and ECPM (Together Against the Death Penalty), shows that despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Islamic Republic continued…

2021

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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The new Tunisia and the death penalty

on 16 May 2011

…range of subjects, among them the death penalty.” The government in transition “The current interim government has little power to change the laws in Tunisia,” noted Bensedrine, “but we can…

2011

Public Opinion 

Tunisia

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Caribbean Conference – The Death Penalty in the Context of Public Security: Neither Right, Nor Effective

By Greater Caribbean For Life, on 9 September 2013

…Greater Caribbean for Life, in partnership with: Puerto Rican Coalition Against the Death Penalty Alpha Chambers The Catholic Commission for Social Justice World Coalition Against the Death Penalty Community of…

2013

Public Opinion 

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Death Penalty in India in 2017

By National Law University, Delhi, center of the death penalty, on 26 March 2018

death penalty for certain crimes encouraged other states to adopt similar strategies. Indeed, After Madhya Pradesh introduced legislation that prescribed the death penalty for the rape of minor girls, the

2018

India

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Death sentences and executions 2014

By Amnesty International, on 1 April 2015

…charges. China made use of the death penalty as a tool in the “Strike Hard” campaign, which the authorities characterized as a response to terrorism and violent crime in the

2015

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Capital punishment now part of Togo’s history

on 24 June 2009

…abolishing the death penalty in Africa. Burundi adopted a new penal code in April 2009 which abolished the death penalty from the legislation. Several other countries, notably Mali, are reviewing…

2009

Togo

Togo

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Abolition in the US: what role for overseas activists?

on 3 February 2008

…what death penalty supporters might reject as foreign interference in US affairs. Despite the hesitation about the way to address this issue and the short time available, the discussion yielded…

2008

Clemency

Public Opinion 

United States

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30 countries gather in Rome to oppose capital punishment

on 21 May 2010

…at the global level. The death penalty is “remote from humanity” Angola’s Justice Minister Guilhermina Prata said that her country abolished the death penalty in 1992 after it became a…

2010

Italy

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Community of Sant’Egidio meets the president of Mongolia

on 7 October 2010

…hopes that the complete abolition of the death penalty from the laws of the country is achieved soon. The organisations is ready to share every effort of President Elbegdorj and…

2010

Mongolia

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Drug-busting aid to Iran must be frozen

By Thomas Hubert, on 27 November 2012

…law. “Given ongoing grave human rights concerns related to drug control in Iran, including the lack of due process, the application of the mandatory death penalty and the high rate…

2012

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Drug Offenses

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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Tuscany against the death penalty

on 1 December 2007

…to Pope Benedict XVI to request “the excommunication of the death penalty. We are asking the Pope to definitively speak out against the death penalty”. The convention took place during…

2007

Italy

Moratorium

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UN resolution: the abolitionist front grows stronger again

on 22 December 2010

the global trend towards the abolition of the death penalty. In Asia, the largest retentionist area in the world, a breakthrough occurred. Mongolia and Thailand had previously voted against the

2010

Moratorium

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Belarus moratorium a condition for closer ties with Europe

on 23 June 2009

…of the Council of Europe”, thanks to which “the European continent became the largest area in the world where death penalty is outlawed”. The World Coalition was “expecting official commitments…

2009

Belarus

Belarus

Moratorium

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Call for actions on World Day in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean States

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 July 2020

The Greater Caribbean For Life (GCL) and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (the World Coalition) are part of a joint project, led by The Death Penalty Project and…

2020

Barbados

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One more step towards universal abolition

on 20 November 2008

…“Moratorium on the use of the death penalty”, and recognizes “the global trend towards the abolition of the death penalty”. The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty welcomes the increasing…

2008

Moratorium

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Taiwan breaks five-year moratorium on executions

on 6 May 2010

…to meet the four men for the last time before they died. “These executions cast a dark shadow on the country’s human rights record, and blatantly contradict the Justice Minister’s…

2010

Moratorium

Taiwan

Taiwan

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Lawyers’ manual published in traditional Chinese

By Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty, on 30 November 2013

the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty; and lawyers from around 15 countries including Taiwan and China. The traditional Chinese version follows the publication of the English and French editions…

2013

China

Legal Representation

Taiwan

Taiwan

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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

…of the IDPC expressed her concern regarding the reintroduction of the death penalty in Philippines. On that subject, Leni Robredo, Vice-president of the Philippines gave her opinion in the opening…

2017

Drug Offenses

Public Opinion 

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Pakistan moratorium renewal welcomed

By Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, on 8 October 2013

…for an official moratorium to be restored. In a statement, the Commission said: “HRCP welcomes the government’s statement that it would persist with the moratorium on death penalty. The news…

2013

Moratorium

Pakistan

Pakistan

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Statement of international solidarity with the families of people sentenced to death in Iran

By The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 15 September 2022

the fight against the death penalty. Its objective is to obtain the universal abolition of the death penalty. For more information read: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/5476/ Be informed about the situation  by following…

2022

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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Greater Caribbean for Life – Project Manager

By Greater Caribbean for Life, on 7 June 2018

…permanent abolition of the death penalty in the Greater Caribbean; – supporting Caribbean abolitionist activists and organizations in the Greater Caribbean Region; and – collaborating with the international abolitionist community….

2018

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Alarming levels of executions in few countries – Amnesty

on 27 March 2012

…while many of these reduced their use of the death penalty, a small number of countries, including, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, increased executions. The Death Penalty In 2011: Global…

2012

Bahrain

Belarus

China

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Iraq

Moratorium

Nigeria

Saudi Arabia

Sierra Leone

South Sudan

Tunisia

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US executions drop below 40 in 2013

By Death Penalty Information Center, on 20 December 2013

death penalty was increasing. Now it is declining by almost every measure,” said Richard Dieter, DPIC’s Executive Director and the author of the report. “The recurrent problems of the death

2013

Public Opinion 

United States

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Mongolian president calls for abolition

on 18 January 2010

…highlighted that the death penalty leaves no room for reparation in cases of miscarriages of justice. “There are instances where the death penalty was imposed on an innocent individual instead…

2010

Clemency

Mongolia

Moratorium

United Nations

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120 UN Member States Support the Moratorium at Committee Vote

By Louis Linel, on 18 November 2020

…South Korea which voted in favor of the the resolution for the first time. The Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Guinea, Nauru, the Philippines, and…

2020

Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Djibouti

Eswatini

Guinea

Lebanon

Mexico

Moratorium

Nauru

Philippines

Republic of Korea

Sierra Leone

Switzerland

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Two countries asked to ratify the UN Protocol on abolition

on 9 December 2009

the review of the Dominican Republic: “Spain welcomes with satisfaction the abolition of the death penalty and hopes that the Dominican Republic will ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the

2009

Côte d'Ivoire

Côte d'Ivoire

Dominican Republic

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Saudi Arabian Mass execution of 81 men

By Anissa Aguedal, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 4 April 2022

…and the shameful Western complicity.” Amnesty International stated that the executions are “the latest demonstration of Saudi Arabia’s politicized use of the death penalty to silence dissent in the Eastern…

2022

Moratorium

Public Opinion 

Saudi Arabia

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Beating the death penalty in Illinois

on 22 January 2011

…for the repeal of the death penalty in the state. The director of the Illinois Coalition to Abolition the death penalty, Jeremy Schroeder, explains how local abolitionists have been campaigning…

2011

United States

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL REPORT

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Editorial: Amnesty International releases annual report

By Amnesty International, on 27 May 2021

penalty under international human rights law and standards continued to be violated in many countries. We also saw Chad and the US state of Colorado fully abolished the death penalty,…

2021

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Death Row Conditions 

Public Opinion 

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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

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 executions, we are horrified by…

2024

State of Palestine

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Pakistani authorities urged to renew moratorium

By Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, on 8 July 2013

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the president and the prime minister to extend the informal moratorium on execution of death row prisoners after a presidential…

2013

Moratorium

Pakistan

Pakistan

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Helping South Korea on its progress towards abolition

on 22 October 2008

…lobby of fundamentalist Christian churches, support the death penalty. No executions have taken place in the country in the past 10 years, which places it in the de-facto abolitionist category….

2008

Moratorium

Public Opinion 

Republic of Korea

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Moving towards an inter-Arab coalition against the death penalty

on 1 May 2007

…cultural identity. In conclusion, they called for the creation of national and sub-regional coalitions which would favour the emergence of an inter-Arab coalition against the death penalty in the long…

2007

Public Opinion 

Women

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Abolitionist co-operation at all levels kick-started in Geneva

on 24 February 2010

…Thailand-based human rights organisation, explained why the death penalty is a form of torture at the 2010 World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Geneva. Watch his interview below  …

2010

China

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Moratorium

Switzerland

World Coalition held first General Assembly in East Africa

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World Coalition held first General Assembly in East Africa

By World Coalition against the death penalty, on 7 July 2023

…Alliance to End The Death Penalty – TAEDP  The Advocates for Human Rights – TAHR  The Death Penalty Project – DPP  Witness to Innocence – WTI  The newly elected Steering…

2023

Trend Towards Abolition

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Japan executions slammed

on 30 July 2009

“the barbaric practice of killing people”. The Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty and the Italian Coalition Against the Death Penalty also expressed shock at the three hangings. Center…

2009

Japan

World Coalition Against the Death Penalty

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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. The FIACAT, the Advocates for Human Rights,…

2021

Public Opinion 

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“Living with the death penalty” at the World Congress

By Marion Gauer, on 1 July 2016

…reflective of the same fierce will to overcome that painful experience in order to live again, allow us to grasp the reality of the death penalty from an on-the-ground perspective….

2016

Fair Trial

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Tackling resistance to abolition in Africa

By Thomas Hubert, on 22 June 2013

…World Congress Against the Death Penalty that his country was trying to widen the scope of the death penalty. “The bill against homosexuality, which includes the death penalty and is…

2013

Innocence

Nigeria

Terrorism

Uganda

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Benin votes overwhelmingly to join abolitionist ranks

By Emile Carreau, on 5 September 2011

…activists and human rights defenders to continue encouraging the country: “The approach of the parliament in Benin is consistent in the sense that by authorizing the ratification, they give a…

2011

Benin

Benin

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Kazakhstan Ratifies the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR

By Aurélie Plaçais, on 1 April 2022

Kazakhstan ratified the UN treaty aiming at the abolition of the death penalty on 24 March 2022. A year after the Parliament passed the bill authorizing the ratification of the

2022

Kazakhstan

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African Great Lakes Coalition gets stronger

on 6 November 2009

The text below is the first one written by the regional coalition’s activists for Africabolition.org, a cross-border publication tool set up by Together Against the Death Penalty and the World…

2009

Burundi

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Juveniles

Rwanda

Uganda

US White House

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Calling for an End to the Federal Executions of the Outgoing Trump Administration

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

…have put more people to death within half a year than any other President in a whole term in American history. The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty and its…

2020

Moratorium

Public Opinion 

United States

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Program and Admin Assistant (Trainee)

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 9 October 2018

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

2018

Article(s)

Program and Admin Assistant (Trainee)

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 31 March 2020

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

2020

Article(s)

Europe to lead the abolitionist way

on 29 June 2007

…10th – marked since 2003 as World Day against the Death Penaltythe European Day against the Death Penalty. The official launch of the European Day will take place…

2007

Moratorium

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The Death Penalty for Drug Offences, A Global Overview 2017

By Harm Reduction International, on 26 March 2018

Among the key findings from the 2017 Global Overview report: At least 33 countries and territories prescribe the death penalty for drug offences in law. At least nine countries still…

2018

Drug Offenses

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To escape the death penalty: be rich and kill a foreigner

on 24 February 2010

…such injustice: “the more people are informed about the death penalty, the more they oppose it”. Roundtable on wednesday february 24Racial, ethnic, and social bias in the death penalty.  …

2010

Bahrain

Fair Trial

Pakistan

Saudi Arabia

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World Coalition supports international calls for American moratorium

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 6 May 2014

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, in solidarity with its members in the United States, joins the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) of the United…

2014

Moratorium

United States

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Iranian death sentence for Facebook postings violates international law

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 28 November 2014

…World Coalition Against the Death Penalty strongly condemns Arabi’s death sentence and calls on the Iranian authorities to rescind it immediately. The President of the World Coalition, Florence Bellivier, stated:…

2014

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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Abolition of the death penalty for terrorism in Chad

By FIACAT, on 30 April 2020

Extract from the FIACAT press release published on 29 April 2020. To read the press release : http://fiacat.org/en/media-press/press-releases/2874-press-release-abolition-of-the-death-penalty-for-acts-of-terrorism-in-chad According to Salomon Nodjitoloum, President of ACAT Chad: “The abolition of the

2020

Chad

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Increased use of the death penalty in Egypt since 2013

By Abdoul Razak Ahmadou Youssoufou, on 13 June 2019

…resulted in the death sentence. The report also denounces that in mass trials, defendants are regularly sentenced to death on the basis of false accusations of terrorism linked to the

2019

Egypt

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Imposing the death penalty has not reduced drug crimes in Asia -New Report

By FIDH & World Coalition, on 10 October 2015

Asia is the continent that executes the most people for drug-related crimes. The report, published for the 13th World Day against the Death Penalty, analyzes how the death penalty is…

2015

Afghanistan

Bangladesh

China

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Drug Offenses

India

Indonesia

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Japan

Lao People's Democratic Republic

Malaysia

Maldives

Myanmar

Pakistan

Republic of Korea

Singapore

Sri Lanka

Taiwan

Thailand

Viet Nam

Article(s)

Legal Officer – The Death Penalty Project

By The Death Penalty Project, on 23 January 2018

The Death Penalty Project (DPP) is a legal action charity based in London. Our main purpose is to promote and protect the human rights of those facing the death penalty

2018

United Kingdom

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Ratification of abolition treaties gathers pace in 2012

By Aurelie Placais, on 20 March 2012

the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, Dominican Republic ratified the American Protocol for the abolition of the death penalty on 27 January 2012. Angola, Benin, Bolivia, Cambodia and Poland…

2012

Angola

Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

Cambodia

Honduras

Kyrgyzstan

Latvia

Mongolia

Poland

Article(s)

Fiji abolishes death penalty for all crimes through amendment to military law

By Auréie Plaçais, on 23 February 2015

…2014, for the first time, Fiji voted in favour of the resolution entitled “Moratorium on the use of the death penalty”. Fiji abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in…

2015

Fiji

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Belize PM aims to amend constitution to resume executions

on 9 June 2011

…of Justice will follow the Privy Council’s lead and restrict the application of the death penalty. The PM’s attempt to reintroduce executions is similar to what occurred in neighbouring Caribbean…

2011

Belize

Belize

Legal Representation

Trinidad and Tobago

Article(s)

Website Redesign and Development

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 15 January 2020

the 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…

2020

Article(s)

Program and Admin Assistant

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 5 January 2017

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

2017

Article(s)

Geneva 2010: the world’s largest abolitionist meeting is underway

on 24 February 2010

…issues such as discrimination in the administration of the death penalty and ways to establish strategies against capital punishment. The World Congress also makes room for testimonies from the victims…

2010

Switzerland

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Uniting activists’ forces is Amina Bouayach’s obsession

on 25 February 2010

…official. “We went against that sentence and against the death penalty as a punishment. Reactions were strongly negative.” Yet the next year, after OMDH included the death penalty among “serious…

2010

Morocco

Article(s)

Jury Rejects Federal Death Penalty in Puerto Rico

By Kevin Miguel Rivera-Medina, President of the Puerto Rico Bar Association Committee on Death Penalty, on 2 October 2012

The Puerto Rico Constitution specifically prohibits the death penalty.  Notwithstanding, the US federal authorities in what has been called “the oldest colony of the World” consistently tries to impose such…

2012

United States

Article(s)

Mumia’s supporters fight back after legal setback and turn to Obama

on 29 January 2010

…that has become an icon of racial discrimination in the use of the death penalty. Supreme Court decides death sentence is valid The petition comes as the US Supreme Court…

2010

Innocence

United States

Gender and Death Penalty Glossary

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World Coalition launches glossary on gender and the death penalty

By World coalition against the deaht penalty, on 15 August 2023

As part of its efforts to mainstream a gender lens in the abolitionist movement, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty just released a glossary on gender and the death

2023

Gender

Article(s)

800 cities light up for life

on 17 November 2008

The international day “Cities for Life – Cities Against the Death Penalty” is organised by the Community of Sant’Egidio and supported by the World Coalition and the European Union. It…

2008

Italy

Public Opinion 

Article(s)

Strong support for US abolitionists on World Day

on 11 October 2010

death penalty and to work to educate the public to bring about the end of its use. By 2009, 139 countries in the world had abolished the death penalty in…

2010

Juveniles

Mental Illness

Public Opinion 

United States

Article(s)

Algerian MPs want to abolish the death penalty

on 9 December 2008

Algerian MP Ali Brahimi (photo) filed a bill aimed at abolishing the death penalty on December 6. The text was sponsored by 20 other lawmakers and states: “The death penalty

2008

Algeria

Moratorium

Article(s)

Call for actions on World Day in Sub-Saharan Africa 2

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 17 June 2020

In the framework of this project, the World Coalition wants to support partner civil society organizations in organizing activities for the World Day Against the Death Penalty (10 October).  For…

2020

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cameroon

Congo

Côte d'Ivoire

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Ghana

Guinea

Kenya

Liberia

Mauritania

Niger

Senegal

Sierra Leone

Togo

United Republic of Tanzania

Article(s)

United Nations headed for new moratorium resolution

on 15 November 2010

…New York. The text “calls upon all States that still maintain the death penalty … to establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty”. It…

2010

Bhutan

Kiribati

Maldives

Mongolia

Moratorium

Togo

Article(s)

EU establishes European Day Against the Death Penalty

on 12 December 2007

…form of his justice minister’s lifting the Polish veto on the creation of the European Day Against the Death Penalty. The EU, which imposes the abolition of the death penalty

2007

Virginia USA

Article(s)

The Commonwealth of Virginia Abolishes the Death Penalty

By Louis Linel, on 25 March 2021

…losing ground in the USA according to the Death Penalty Information Center’s annual report. To know more about the history of the abolitionist movement in Virginia: How Virginia’s Death Penalty

2021

United States

Article(s)

Singapore arrests writer over death penalty book

on 20 July 2010

…trafficking. Figures on the application of the death penalty are not made public and most death sentences involve drug-related crimes. The presumption of guilt and the mandatory use of the

2010

Drug Offenses

Singapore

Article(s)

Death penalty still used to make examples in North Korea

By Thomas Hubert, on 19 May 2013

A new investigation of the death penalty in North Korea by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH, a World Coalition member) concludes that “the death penalty in the DPRK…

2013

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Article(s)

The Death Penalty in Human Rights Watch “World Report 2020”

By Majdoulin Sendadi, on 6 February 2020

The report assesses the situation of the death penalty in several countries: Angola; Belarus; Bahrain; Egypt; India; Iran; Iraq; Japan; Libya; Malaysia; Mauritania; Pakistan; Papua New Guinea; the Philippines; Qatar;…

2020

Article(s)

Singaporean and Malaysian activists welcome changes in their country

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 16 July 2012

…cabinet ministers. While World Coalition’s member Think Centre “welcomes the Singapore Government’s move to review the mandatory death penalty”, Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Campaign (SADPC) “gratefully acknowledge that the government has…

2012

Drug Offenses

Malaysia

Singapore

Article(s)

Iran ignores nearly 100,000 signatures against child executions

on 23 November 2009

…by the World Coalition since World Day against the Death Penalty was held on October 10, 2009, the embassy of Iran rejected requests for a visit. The embassy of Saudi…

2009

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Juveniles

Sudan

Article(s)

After the debates, the victims’ emotions

on 28 February 2010

…including that given by the courageous Kids Against the Death Penalty, inspired evident admiration among the listeners, as proved by the thunderous applause with which their intervention was met. The

2010

Article(s)

UN receives five million signatures in favour of a moratorium on executions

on 8 November 2007

…Criminal Defence Lawyers, Helen Prejean, leading American advocate of the abolition of the death penalty and the woman behind the movie Dead Man Walking, Marie Verzulli, from Murder Victims’ Families…

2007

Moratorium

Article(s)

WANTED: Program and Admin Assistant

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 19 August 2016

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

2016

World Coalition Against the Death Penalyt

Article(s)

Côte d’Ivoire Accedes to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR

By World coalition against the death penalty, on 8 July 2024

Côte d’Ivoire has acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, which is the UN treaty aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, on 3 May 2024. This…

2024

Côte d'Ivoire

Iran annual report 2022

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Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran: Alarming Increase in Executions

By World coalition agains the death penalty, on 18 September 2023

…growing protests in Iran, which has seen massive popular demonstrations since the death of Mahsa Amini on September 16 at the hands of the Iranian morality police. The protests have…

2023

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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Iran: more than 800 people executed in 2015, 500 for drugs

By Iran Human Rights, on 13 October 2015

…Day against the Death penalty, Iran Human Rights once again calls on the UNODC and countries who are funding UNODC projects in Iran to make their cooperation in the area…

2015

Drug Offenses

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Article(s)

Protecting vulnerable groups from the death penalty

on 24 February 2010

the death penalty for juveniles and prevented by the Iranian authorities from leaving the country.  Ameir Mohamed Suliman comes from Sudan and works for the African Center for Justice and…

2010

Drug Offenses

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Juveniles

Mental Illness

Switzerland

Women

Article(s)

Pushing for abolition in the Middle East and in North Africa

on 28 February 2010

…number of activists against the death penalty is rising every day, but he adds that “activists need solidarity”. He emphasizes the fact that the struggle against the death penalty accompanies…

2010

Algeria

Fair Trial

Jordan

Moratorium

Poland

Turkey

Article(s)

Campaigning through forgiving

on 24 February 2010

…knew they were serious. After they arrested me, they told me they had a tape in which I confessed to the murder.”I fact, his ex-wife turned him in. The tape…

2010

Murder Victims' Families

Public Opinion 

Switzerland

United States

Article(s)

Opinion leaders meet to discuss death penalty abolition in Niger

on 13 March 2015

…Human Rights Commission) to strengthen their ability to advocate for the abolition of the death penalty. The participants attended a number of talks on the death penalty in Islam, Christianity…

2015

Niger

Niger

World Coalition Against the Death Penalty

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Death Penalty Information Center’s Annual Summary

By Dunia Schaffa, on 27 February 2023

…direction; however, the abolition of the death penalty is the end goal which aligns with the public’s opinion as the support for capital punishment decreased, according to the Gallup Crime…

2023

United States

Article(s)

Filming in the darkness of China’s death row

on 17 September 2008

…revenge, but they are both facing the wall of the death penalty. They are the protagonists  of a sad and hard, yet beautiful film. Diao Yi Nan, who directed Night…

2008

China

Death Row Conditions 

Article(s)

Linking the death penalty and torture to achieve abolition

By Thomas Hubert, on 20 June 2013

“Considering the death penalty as torture in international law would not be another step, it is the ultimate step to establish that the death penalty is illegal all the time,…

2013

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Article(s)

Former death row warden turns frontline abolitionist

on 6 June 2011

them with the general prison population.” Founded in 1988, Death Penalty Focus is one of the largest non-profit advocacy organisations in the US dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment….

2011

Death Row Conditions 

Public Opinion 

United States

Article(s)

End the death penalty for drug-related offences

on 26 June 2009

…point the finger: “Sixteen countries in Asia apply the death penalty for drug-related offences. As many countries in the region do not make information on the death penalty available, it…

2009

China

Drug Offenses

Indonesia

Viet Nam

Article(s)

Call for actions on World Day in the Maldives and Turkey

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 17 June 2020

…for the 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty, the World Coalition and its partners would like to grant targeted financial support to local civil society organizations in the Maldives…

2020

Maldives

Turkey

Article(s)

Call for actions on World Day in the Philippines

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 July 2020

…for the 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty, the World Coalition and its partners would like to grant targeted financial support to local civil society organizations in the Philippines…

2020

Philippines

Article(s)

Activists and diplomats slam political executions in Iran

on 1 February 2010

The Iranian authorities have been the target of a constant flow of criticism after the January 28 execution of Arash Rahmanipour (right) and Reza Ali-Zamani (below), two of the 11…

2010

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Fair Trial

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Article(s)

The World Coalition plays a pivotal role at the 3rd World Congress Against the Death Penalty

on 1 May 2007

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty played an active role in the preparation of the Congress organised by ECPM (Together against the Death Penalty), both in developing the Congress’s…

2007

France

Article(s)

200 executions in Texas under Rick Perry

on 8 June 2009

…of death sentences halved in five years Texas is thus the US state with the largest number of executions, although the number of death sentences has gone down by 50%…

2009

Clemency

Innocence

Mental Illness

United States