Article(s)
World Coalition AGM among largest abolitionist events in the Arab world
on 6 June 2011
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty has announced its June annual general assembly at a press conference in Rabat, Morocco.
2011
Morocco
Article(s)
Former death row warden turns frontline abolitionist
on 6 June 2011
Jeanne Woodford, who used to oversee excutions in California, has become the executive director of the prominent anti-capital punishment organisation Death Penalty Focus.
Death Row Conditions
Public Opinion
United States
Article(s)
Pressure mounts on Lundbeck to halt supply of execution drugs
on 27 May 2011
Thanks to a campaign by Coalition Member Reprieve and others, Danish chemicals company Lundbeck is feeling the heat from all sides for selling execution drugs to US prisons.
2011
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Denmark
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)
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)
African human rights body targets death penalty
on 16 May 2011
The abolition of the capital punishment figured prominently at the 49th session of the African Commission of Human and People’s Rights.
Algeria
Botswana
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Equatorial Guinea
Mauritania
Public Opinion
Somalia
Sudan
Document(s)
Prison Conditions in Jamaica
on 19 April 2011
2011
NGO report
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85 More details Download [ pdf - 396 Ko ] In criminal justice matters, Jamaica has been rightly praised for its de-facto abolitionist
stance on the death penalty: nobody has been executed on the island since 1988.
However, the alternative to death is imprisonment. For many years, NGOs, the UN
Human Rights Committee, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and
various independent and internal reports have expressed serious concern about the
conditions in which Jamaica detains its prisoners.
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- Countries list Jamaica
- Themes list Death Row Conditions
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Article(s)
Country-by-country death penalty data now available
By Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law, on 19 April 2011
A new statistic and legal database designed by Northwestern University in partnership with the World Coalition offers a unique view of the use of capital punishment in more than 90 states.
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27 Article(s)
Pressured Indian firm stops exporting lethal drugs
on 8 April 2011
The decision of Kayem to stop supplying the US with execution drugs may well have been influenced by a campaign organized by World Coalition member Reprieve.
2011
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
India
United States
Article(s)
Will Arab revolutions bring new hope for abolition?
on 4 April 2011
The winds of change have brought fresh air to the abolitionist cause in countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa, with new faces in power reigniting a stalled debate.
2011
Algeria
Egypt
Lebanon
Mauritania
Moratorium
Morocco
Public Opinion
Syrian Arab Republic
Terrorism
Tunisia
Yemen
