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Abolition of the death penalty at the United Nations Human Rights Council 55th session
on 13 September 2024
The United Nations Human Rights Council met for its 55th Regular Session from February 26 to April 5, 2024. If you missed it, here is what happened regarding the abolition of the death penalty!
Trend Towards Abolition
Document(s)
Issues Impacting LGBTQ+ Prisoners
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 3 September 2024
2024
NGO report
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35 Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Fair Trial
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85 More details See the document LGBTQ+ people, especially people of color and low income, experience high levels of policing and criminalization, leading to an overrepresentation of these individuals in the incarcerated population. A 2017 study from researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, suggests that LGBTQ+ people are three times as likely to be incarcerated than the general population. Once incarcerated, LGBTQ+ people are often subjected to violence from correctional staff and fellow prisoners, as well denied medical care and access to mental health services.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment / Fair Trial
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Abolition of the death penalty at the United Nations Human Rights Council 54th session
on 30 August 2024
The United Nations Human Rights Council met for its 54th Regular Session from September 11 to October 13, 2023. If you missed it, here is what happened regarding the abolition of the death penalty!
2024
Trend Towards Abolition
Article(s)
Abolition of the death penalty at the United Nations Human Rights Council 56th session
on 30 August 2024
The United Nations Human Rights Council met for its 56th Regular Session from June 18 to July 12, 2024. If you missed it, here is what happened regarding the abolition of the death penalty!
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The death penalty in the DRC: an illusory means of combating impunity in the face of human rights implementation
By Mr Olivier LUNGWE FATAKI of Pax Christi Uvira, absl, on 30 August 2024
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the States which has retained the death penalty in its legal arsenal, although applies a de facto moratorium on executions since 2003.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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In support and solidarity with “No Death Penalty Tuesdays” abolitionist movement in Iran
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 28 August 2024
Every six hours, one person was executed in Iranian prisons in the first 20 days of August. Execution numbers have been rising every year since 2021, with at least 834 people executed in 2023, and 395 executions recorded by Iran Human Rights as of 26th August 2024.
2024
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Singapore: Authorities must end executions and stop targeting anti-death penalty activists to curb criticism
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 28 August 2024
We, the undersigned seven organizations, are gravely concerned by developments in Singapore since the beginning of August 2024, which has seen the authorities carry out two executions in violation of international safeguards on the death penalty, as well as limiting the right to freedom of expression of the Transformative Justice Collective, a non-governmental organization who […]
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Document(s)
INSECURITY REVEALED: Voices Against the Death Penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 6 August 2024
2024
Campaigning
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55 fr More details Download [ pdf - 1313 Ko ] - Document type Campaigning / World Coalition
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- Available languages L'INSÉCURITÉ RÉVÉLÉE : Voix contre la peine de mort
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China: Judicial guidelines to curtail activism for Taiwan a further blow for human rights protections
By Amnesty International, Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, Capital Punishment Justice Project, the Rights Practice and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 August 2024
Taken from the declaration posted on Amnesty International’s web page found here. “Amnesty International and four other organizations are alarmed by the recent publication by the Chinese authorities of new judicial guidelines providing directives to prosecute and harshly punish, including by the death penalty, those advocating and acting for Taiwan’s independence. The guidance effectively encourages […]
2024
China
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