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Article(s)
American death penalty area shrank further in 2012
By Thomas Hubert, on 20 December 2012
Only nine US states carried out executions this year, the lowest number in 20 years, according to a new report released by the independent organisation Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC).
2012
United States
Article(s)
A significant step towards universal abolition
on 15 November 2007
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty welcomes the vote by the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly of a resolution calling for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty worldwide.
2007
Moratorium
Article(s)
Sri Lanka: the death sentences of 60 prisoners commuted
By Elise Guillot, on 17 February 2017
Good news from Sri Lanka: by decision of the President, the death sentences of 60 prisoners have been commuted.
2017
Sri Lanka
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
Article(s)
Malian opinion leaders meet to discuss death penalty abolition
on 6 October 2014
World Coalition member organisation FIACAT and its affiliate in Mali, ACAT Mali organised a seminar to raise awareness on the abolition of the death penalty in Mali in Bamako on 29 and 30 September 2014.
2014
Mali
Mali
Public Opinion
Article(s)
Protest Against Executions Ordered by Minister of Justice Yoshihisa Furukawa
By Center for Prisoner Rights and Japan Innocence and Death Penalty Information Center, on 23 December 2021
On 21 December 2021, Japan’s new governement executed three men after two years with no execution during which Japan hosted the Olympics and the United Nations Congress on Criminal Justice.
2021
Japan
Legal Representation
Moratorium
Article(s)
ADPAN welcomes Mongolia’s decision abolish death penalty in law
By ADPAN, on 18 December 2015
Mongolia abolished the death penalty for all crimes in law on 3 December 2015 by adopting a new Criminal Code without any reference to capital punishment. Mongolia had already taken a strong commitment in 2012 by ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, and it was one of the World Coalition’s target countries for the follow-up of the ratification campaign. The new Criminal Code will come into effect in September 2016
2015
Article(s)
Uzbekistan becomes the 70th state party to the UN’s Second Optional Protocol
on 17 December 2008
The former Soviet republic has confirmed its accession to the only international treaty abolishing the death penalty in an irreversible manner.
2008
Clemency
Uzbekistan
Article(s)
Call for joint action to stop drug-related executions in Iran
on 3 May 2024
April 10, 2024 Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) and 83 Iranian and international organisations and groups have called for joint action to stop drug-related executions, urging UNODC to make “any cooperation with the Islamic Republic contingent on a complete halt on drug-related executions”. They have announced the start of a mass international campaign in this regard.
2024
Drug Offenses
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Member(s)
Communità di Sant’Egidio
on 30 April 2020
Sant’Egidio is a Christian community born in 1968, right after the second Vatican Council. An initiative of Andrea Riccardi, it was born in a secondary school in the centre of Rome. With the years, it has become a network of communities in more than 70 countries of the world. The Community pays attention to the […]
2020
Italy
Article(s)
The World Coalition welcomes the moratorium on executions in California
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 14 March 2019
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty welcomes the moratorium on executions announced by the Governor of the US State of California, Gavin Newsom. California has 737 prisoners on death row, about 25% of all US death row prisoners, and the largest death row in the Western Hemisphere. Fewer than 30% of nations still use […]
2019
Moratorium
United States
Article(s)
Opportunity to end US lethal injections
on 15 November 2007
Executions are currently on hold in the US pending a Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of lethal injections. This is an opportunity for action from abolitionists, especially among the medical professions.
2007
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Moratorium
United States
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)
In Cameroon, the abolitionist network grows
By Nestor Toko and Jessica Corredor, on 28 October 2016
For the first time in Cameroon, the Cameroonian organization Droits et Paix, in partnership with the French association Ensemble contre la peine de mort, held a conference and training on the death penalty in Yaounde.
2016
Cameroon
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)
Abolition in New Mexico hailed around the world
on 19 March 2009
New Mexico’s governor Bill Richardson signed the repeal of the death penalty in to law on March 18, 2009, attracting praise from the global abolitionist community.
2009
United States
Article(s)
US Supreme Court revives “failed” death penalty
on 17 April 2008
The World Coalition condemns the April 16th decision of the United States Supreme Court upholding the lethal injection as a humane method of executing a human being.
2008
Moratorium
United States
Article(s)
9th Resolution for a moratorium on the death penalty: the trend is growing
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 20 December 2022
On 15 December 2022, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 9th resolution for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty with 125 votes in favor (2 more than in 2020), 37 votes against, 22 abstentions and 9 absent.
2022
Moratorium
Trend Towards Abolition
Article(s)
Taiwan visit raises hopes of local abolitionists
on 9 July 2008
A recent visit to Taiwan by a joint World Coalition-ADPAN delegation left the impression that the Asian island was on course to “join a global trend towards abolition of the death penalty”, as was reported in the local media.
2008
Public Opinion
Taiwan
Taiwan
Article(s)
Saudi Arabia: why are foreigners losing their heads?
on 26 March 2008
Rizana Nafeek, a Sri Lankan servant sentenced to death by a Saudi court, is facing decapitation. ACAT-France and ECPM have joined forces to defend poor immigrants at risk of capital punishment in Saudi Arabia.
2008
Fair Trial
Juveniles
Legal Representation
Saudi Arabia
Women
Article(s)
After abolition: what alternative to the death penalty?
By Thomas Hubert, on 15 June 2013
Ending the death penalty means finding replacement sanctions to punish former capital crimes – while taking into accounts human rights standards.
2013
Public Opinion
Article(s)
FIDH report on Vietnam: an update on death penalty statistics
on 19 September 2010
The FIDH and the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights released a new report, From Visions to Facts: Human Rights in Vietnam under its Chairmanship of ASEAN, on 16 August 2010.
2010
Drug Offenses
Moratorium
Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Document(s)
Right Here, Right Now Life Stories from America’s Death Row
By Lynden Harris, on 10 August 2021
2021
Book
Death Row Conditions
United States
More details See the document
Upon receiving his execution date, one of the thousands of men living on death row in the United States had an epiphany: “All there ever is, is this moment. You, me, all of us, right here, right now, this minute, that’s love.”
Right Here, Right Now collects the powerful, first-person stories of dozens of men on death rows across the country. From childhood experiences living with poverty, hunger, and violence to mental illness and police misconduct to coming to terms with their executions, these men outline their struggle to maintain their connection to society and sustain the humanity that incarceration and its daily insults attempt to extinguish.
By offering their hopes, dreams, aspirations, fears, failures, and wounds, the men challenge us to reconsider whether our current justice system offers actual justice or simply perpetuates the social injustices that obscure our shared humanity.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Row Conditions
Member(s)
LBH Masyarakat (Community Legal Aid Institute)
on 5 May 2021
LBH Masyarakat (Community Legal Aid Institute) is a collective of individuals who believe that every human has potential to actively participate in legal aid, to uphold justice, and to contribute to the protection of human rights. LBH Masyarakat believes in equality, non-discrimination, and acknowledgement of inherent human dignity. LBH Masyarakat defends the right of every […]
2021
Indonesia
Article(s)
4,000 death sentences commuted in Kenya
on 6 August 2009
Kenya’s president has commuted all death sentences in the country in the wake of legal challenges brought by local and international activists.
2009
Clemency
Kenya
Kenya
Article(s)
Advocating for the recognition of women sentenced to death in the fight for women’s rights
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 15 August 2023
From July 16 to 20, a World Coalition delegation comprising Connie Numbi of Foundation for Human Rights Initiative Uganda, Dr Anna Henga of Legal Human Right Center Tanzania, Damaris Kemunto of the Kenyan Section of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ Kenya), and Méline Szwarcberg, Women and Gender Project Manager at the World Coalition, attended […]
2023
Gender
Women
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
Document(s)
Iraq – Committee Against Torture – Death Penalty – March 2022
on 18 March 2022
2022
NGO report
World Coalition
Iraq
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This report provides an update to the coauthors’ report at the List of issues stage and responds to the State party’s responses to the Committee’s questions in the List of issues that touch on the death penalty.
- Document type NGO report / World Coalition
- Countries list Iraq
Document(s)
Advisory on the Increased Vulnerabilty of Women Migrant Workers on Death Row
By Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines, on 3 December 2021
2021
Government body report
Drug Offenses
Legal Representation
Philippines
Women
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The Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines issues this advisory to bring the Philippines’ attention to the heightened vulnerabilities of women Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs).
- Document type Government body report
- Countries list Philippines
- Themes list Drug Offenses / Legal Representation / Women
- Available languages Avis sur la vulnérabilité accrue des travailleuses migrantes dans le couloir de la mort
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)
Bad press for China after Briton’s execution
on 10 January 2010
Bitter criticism has been targeting China since the execution of British national Akmal Shaikh in the Chinese province of Xinjiang on December 29 after he was found guilty of transporting drugs.
2010
China
Mental Illness
United Kingdom
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
Document(s)
International Law and the Death Penalty Guide
By The Death Penalty Project, on 1 November 2022
2022
NGO report
More details See the document
The use of capital punishment has been an issue addressed by international human rights law since the earliest days of the United Nations. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the General Assembly in 1948, and an instrument widely recognised as the gold standard for human rights, affirms the right to life and the prohibition of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. The Death Penalty Project produced this resource on international law and the death penalty.
- Document type NGO report
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)
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)
Mental illness and the death penalty: a painful intersection
on 28 May 2008
Two leading American grassroots organisations have come together to raise awareness about the execution of mentally ill defendants.
2008
Mental Illness
Murder Victims' Families
United States
Article(s)
Nations of the world to vote on fresh moratorium resolution
on 8 November 2008
As the 63rd session of the UN General Assembly gets under way in New York, the spotlight is once again put on a text calling for a global moratorium on executions.
2008
Moratorium
Article(s)
The ACHPR Moves Online, along with Advocacy to End Capital Punishment
By Bronwyn Dudley, on 30 July 2020
Adapting to the restrictions that the COVID-19 pandemic has placed on physical gatherings, the NGO Forum and following 66th ACHPR Session (African Commission on Human and People’s Rights) were held via Zoom videoconference on 9-10 July and 13 July – 07 August, 2020, respectively.
2020
Article(s)
Abolitionist community appalled at Bangladeshi court ruling
By Emile Carreau, on 8 November 2013
A Bangladeshi court has sentenced 152 people to death and 161 others to life in prison on 5 November for a mutiny in Dhaka in 2009 (photo). High profile abolitionists have berated the decision.
2013
Bangladesh
Death Row Conditions
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
Document(s)
Women and the Death Penalty in Iran
By Iran Human Rights, on 8 October 2021
2021
NGO report
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Women
More details See the document
In observation of the 2021 World Day Against the Death Penalty dedicated to women, Iran Human Rights is providing a report on the women executed in Iran over the last 12 years (2010-2021). The executions in this period are by no means representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s complete history of executing women; the number of female political prisoners executed in the 1980s must be acknowledged due to their sheer volume and abhorrent nature. But even today, there is ample evidence of their cruel and inhuman treatment of female prisoners, which will be highlighted in this report.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- Themes list Women
Article(s)
Death Penalty and Terrorism
By Hand Off Cain, on 15 June 2018
Hands off Cain held a series of meetings, one year after the launch of the project “Containing the death penalty in time of war on terrorism in Somalia, Tunisia and Egypt”, in Nairobi, Kenya, to assess the work done in Somalia.
2018
Somalia
Terrorism
Article(s)
The new Tunisia and the death penalty
on 16 May 2011
The revolution in Tunisia and the resulting changes in the political landscape may offer unprecedented new opportunities for abolitionist organizations
2011
Public Opinion
Tunisia
Article(s)
UAE use of death penalty raises “grave concerns”
on 7 May 2010
In a letter to the United Arab Emirates’ justice minister, the World Coalition denounced the growing number of death sentences handed down in the country, especially after unfair trials or against juvenile offenders.
2010
Fair Trial
Juveniles
United Arab Emirates
Article(s)
Taiwan executions spark outrage
By Thomas Hubert, on 19 April 2013
The authorities of Taiwan have executed six prisoners, days after President Ma met World Coalition representatives and promised to “reduce the use” of the death penalty.
2013
Taiwan
Taiwan
Article(s)
“Living with the death penalty” at the World Congress
By Marion Gauer, on 1 July 2016
In addition to the academic debates and workshops, the organizers of the Congress had also prepared a nice surprise, on June 22nd, with the main event of their cultural program, soberly entitled “Living with the death penalty”. This event was hosted by Will Francome, a director involved in anti-death penalty work, and represented the opportunity to let these direct “witnesses” of the capital punishment speak about what brought them to be sentenced to death, their experiences on death row, and mostly the journey of their reintegration upon their release from death row. It also allowed relatives of current or former death row inmates to testify of their own fight, in favor of their family member as well as all the other individuals who had to go through this.
2016
Fair Trial
Article(s)
Caribbean Conference – The Death Penalty in the Context of Public Security: Neither Right, Nor Effective
By Greater Caribbean For Life, on 9 September 2013
To celebrate the 11th World Day Against the Death Penalty dedicated to the Greater Caribbean, a regional conference is organised by local civil society in Trinidad and Tobago on October, 1st.
2013
Public Opinion
Article(s)
The Arab civil society calls for a moratorium on capital punishment
on 6 June 2008
Between 12-14 May, representatives from Arab civil society organisations gathered in Alexandria, Egypt at the invitation of the Swedish Institute to discuss the implementation of the UN moratorium on the use of the death penalty in the Arab world.
2008
Egypt
Moratorium
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)
Article(s)
World Coalition members hail abolition in Maryland
By Thomas Hubert, on 15 March 2013
The House of Delegates has passed a bill replacing the death penalty with life in prison without parole. The governor of the US state has been supporting the bill and promised to sign it into law.
2013
Indonesia
United States
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
Document(s)
Capital Punishment, 2019 – Statistical Tables
By U.S. Department of Justice Tracy L. Snell, on 10 August 2021
2021
Government body report
Death Row Conditions
Drug Offenses
United States
More details See the document
This report presents statistics on persons who were under sentence of death or were executed in 2019
- Document type Government body report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Row Conditions / Drug Offenses
Article(s)
All roads lead to Rome for world abolitionists
on 9 June 2009
Representatives from the World Coalition’s 88 member organizations will hold their AGM in Italy on June 13 to prepare future campaigns and listen to the testimony of a former death row inmate.
2009
Italy
Article(s)
The World Coalition Has Published a New Guide on Working with the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights
By Bronwyn Dudley, on 26 March 2020
The World Coalition has developed and published a training manual, in partnership with its member the International Federation of Christians Against Torture (FIACAT), on working with the African Union’s human rights organ, the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR). This how-to guide was created specifically for civil society to help encourage successful interaction with the ACHPR, a growing and influential human rights mechanism on the continent.
2020
Article(s)
International support for abolition is continuing to grow – foreign ministers
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 9 October 2015
The Declaration signed by 18 Foreign Ministers from different world regions, including several that are still on a path towards abolition of the death penalty, brings one common message: International support for abolition is continuing to grow, driven by an increasing awareness of the death penalty’s inherent risks and shortcomings.
2015
Argentina
Australia
Benin
Brazil
Burkina Faso
Costa Rica
Fiji
Haiti
Latvia
Madagascar
Mexico
Mongolia
Norway
Philippines
Poland
Spain
Switzerland
Turkey
Article(s)
Death Penalty in India in 2017
By National Law University, Delhi, center of the death penalty, on 26 March 2018
A report describing the use of the death penalty in India in 2017 in comparison with 2016 was recently released by the National Law University’s Death Penalty Research Project (based in New Delhi).
2018
India
Article(s)
The World Coalition elects its new governing bodies until June 2021
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 12 September 2019
The 2019 General Assembly saw the Elections of a new Steering Committee for two years, which in turn elected a new Executive Board until June 2021.
2019
Member(s)
Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM)
on 30 April 2020
Since 2000, Together against the Death Penalty (Ensemble contre la peine de mort – ECPM) acts to fight against the death penalty around the world. The association promotes the universal abolition through the creation and dissemination of publications and teaching tools, as part of public campaigns and lobbies governments at both national and international levels. […]
2020
France
Article(s)
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 World Coalition Against the Death Penalty express its solidarity with the families and relatives of people who are sentenced to death in Iran and with the civil society organizations supporting them.
2022
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Article(s)
Mobilisation gathers pace in Tunisia
on 7 April 2008
The Tunisian Coalition Against the Death Penalty has launched a campaign combining support for an abolition bill and reaction to the sentencing of a man sentenced for terrorism.
2008
Fair Trial
Moratorium
Tunisia
Article(s)
UN Protocol campaign harnesses diplomatic power
on 4 November 2009
The World Coalition launched its action programme in favour of the UN Protocol to abolish the death penalty on 21 October in Geneva.
2009
Brazil
El Salvador
Latvia
Spain
Article(s)
NGOs join forces to tackle capital punishment at Iran’s rights review
By Thomas Hubert, on 30 October 2014
Several World Coalition members are among organisations co-ordinating their efforts to help the international community put pressure on Iran over its use of the death penalty.
2014
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Article(s)
Tuscany against the death penalty
on 1 December 2007
The Italian province celebrated the anniversary of the first law to ever abolish the death penalty on November 28.
2007
Italy
Moratorium
Article(s)
Small progress against the execution of minors
By Tiziana Trotta, on 14 June 2013
These are merely the very first steps down the road, but Iran, Sudan and Yemen, the only countries to apply the death penalty on juvelines along with Saudi Arabia, have just made some small progress on the issue.
2013
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Juveniles
Sudan
Yemen
Article(s)
Singapore Executes People Sentenced to Death for Non-violent Crimes and Threatens their Lawyers
By Dinda Royhan, on 19 September 2019
On 13 July 2019, Think Centre reported that 32 executions have occurred in Singapore since it ended its moratorium on the death penalty in 2014. At the same time, lawyers defending capital cases have reported receiving threats from the government. As of the date of writing, Singapore is among 24 world states that have not ratified the ICCPR and its protocols.
2019
Drug Offenses
Legal Representation
Singapore
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)
Iranian World Coalition member receives Martin Ennals award
on 23 May 2009
A group of prestigious human rights organisations have chosen to honour Emad Baghi, the founder of the Association for the Right to Live.
2009
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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)
Call for Moratorium on Executions Gains Record-High Support at Committee Vote
By Amnesty International & Comunità di Sant'Egidio, on 16 November 2018
Today the international community offered unprecedented support to a UN call to halt executions when the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly considered a draft resolution on a moratorium on the use of the death penalty.
2018
Moratorium
Document(s)
FACTS AND FIGURES LGBTQIA+ People and the Death Penalty – 21st World Day Against the Death Penalty
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 15 August 2023
2023
World Coalition
Gender
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- Document type World Coalition
- Themes list Gender
- Available languages Faits et chiffres Les personnes LGBTQIA+ et la peine de mort - 21e journée mondiale contre la peine de mort
Article(s)
Death sentences and executions 2014
By Amnesty International, on 1 April 2015
This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2014. 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.
2015
Article(s)
Suspension of Pakistan executions not enough – ADPAN
By Thomas Hubert, on 22 August 2013
The Anti Death Penalty Asia Network calls for the restoration of a formal moratorium after the government postponed a wave of executions under pressure from international abolitionists.
2013
Moratorium
Pakistan
Pakistan
Article(s)
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 carrying out executions as in the previous years, and remains the only country to have executed juvenile offenders in 2020.
2021
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Article(s)
World Coalition hands 5 million signatures over to the UN
on 1 November 2007
The President of UN General Assembly is to receive 5 million signatures calling for a moratorium on executions collected worldwide by the Community of Sant’Egidio and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty.
2007
Albania
Angola
Brazil
Croatia
Gabon
Mexico
Moratorium
New Zealand
Philippines
Portugal
Article(s)
120 UN Member States Support the Moratorium at Committee Vote
By Louis Linel, on 18 November 2020
On 17 November, the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly has adopted a draft resolution calling upon UN Member States to observe a moratorium on executions.
2020
Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Djibouti
Eswatini
Guinea
Lebanon
Mexico
Moratorium
Nauru
Philippines
Republic of Korea
Sierra Leone
Switzerland
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)
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 are part of a joint project, led by The Death Penalty Project and funded by the European Union, which aims to create a platform for death penalty reform in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, leading to eventual abolition
2020
Barbados
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)
World Coalition member in Bahrain fights for the lives of protestors
on 25 May 2011
Nabeel Rajab, President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, keeps up the fight for two protestors condemned to death despite attempts at intimidation.
2011
Bahrain
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
Article(s)
Abolition in the US: what role for overseas activists?
on 3 February 2008
As part of its 2008 annual conference, the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP) organised a brainstorming session to explore the question: “How can the international community support us in our efforts to abolish the death penalty in the US?”
2008
Clemency
Public Opinion
United States
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)
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 changed. This article has been updated below. —————————-
2022
Malawi
Article(s)
Beating the death penalty in Illinois
on 22 January 2011
In a video interview at the NCADP conference in Chicago, leading Illinois abolitionist Jeremy Schroeder explains how grassroots activism and political lobbying combined to get the abolition bill passed.
2011
United States
Member(s)
RADHOMA
on 30 April 2020
The network of human rights organisations and activists for the abolition of the death penalty (RADHOMA) is an abolitionist NGO of the DRC. 1. Fundation and headquarters Created on 10 October 2005 by member associations, the organization is a member of the Congolese Coalition Against the Death Penalty and of the World Coalition Against the Death […]
2020
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Article(s)
Corpses of doubtful origin banned from Paris exhibition
on 24 April 2009
Two French organisations have won a court case against an exhibition presenting human bodies likely to be those of executed Chinese citizens.
2009
China
Fair Trial
France
France
Article(s)
Editorial: Amnesty International releases annual report
By Amnesty International, on 27 May 2021
On 21 April, we published our annual report on the global use of the death penalty, which shows that in 2020 the world got one step closer to freeing itself from this cruel punishment.
2021
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Death Row Conditions
Public Opinion
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)
Interview: Pakistan on its way to a moratorium?
on 25 July 2008
Pakistan’s new government has called on all death sentences in the country to be commuted to life imprisonment. Pakistani lawyer and human rights defender Kamran Arif believes a moratorium is at hand.
2008
Clemency
Moratorium
Pakistan
Pakistan
Member(s)
Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP)
on 30 April 2020
The Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP) is a coalition of local abolitionist NGOs and research institutes, which promotes the reform of Taiwan’s penal system in addition to advocating the abolition of the death penalty. It was launched in September 2003, by the Taiwan Association for Human Rights (TAHR), the Judicial Reform Foundation […]
2020
Taiwan
Article(s)
Increased use of the death penalty in Egypt since 2013
By Abdoul Razak Ahmadou Youssoufou, on 13 June 2019
Since the fall of the Morsi regime in 2013, the use of the death penalty has increased considerably in Egypt with a death sentence rate estimated at 2443 people between 2013 and 2018 according to Reprieve.
2019
Egypt
Article(s)
Two countries asked to ratify the UN Protocol on abolition
on 9 December 2009
As part of the campaign in favour of the treaty on the abolition of the death penalty, Chile and Spain encouraged the Dominican Republic and the Ivory Coast to ratify the text.
2009
Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire
Dominican Republic
Article(s)
Legal Officer – The Death Penalty Project
By The Death Penalty Project, on 23 January 2018
The Death Penalty Project recruits a Legal Officer.
2018
United Kingdom
Article(s)
Pakistan moratorium renewal welcomed
By Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, on 8 October 2013
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), a World Coalition member organisation, has welcomed the federal government’s announcement on continuing the moratorium on capital punishment and has called for a thorough review of the death penalty regime in the country.
2013
Moratorium
Pakistan
Pakistan
Article(s)
African Great Lakes Coalition gets stronger
on 6 November 2009
The group, which brings together more than 30 member organisations from four countries, established itself as a formal body and launched its website on World Day Against the Death Penalty.
2009
Burundi
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Juveniles
Rwanda
Uganda
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)
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 penalty. The first of its kind, this publication presents and defines terms relevant to gender-sensitive abolitionist work that recognize the various forms of gender-based discrimination […]
2023
Gender
Article(s)
Abolition of the death penalty for terrorism in Chad
By FIACAT, on 30 April 2020
On 28 April 2020, the Chadian National Assembly unanimously voted to abolish the death penalty for crimes of terrorism.
2020
Chad
Article(s)
Greater Caribbean for Life – Project Manager
By Greater Caribbean for Life, on 7 June 2018
The Greater Caribbean for Life (GCL) is currently seeking to appoint a part-time Project Manager, to assist with the management, administration, and implementation of a project seeking to restrict and reform the use of the death penalty in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean States.
2018
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