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…death penalty. They called for the government to adopt a de jure moratorium on the use f the death penalty and the commuting of all death sentences.Watch the intervention here. …

…the injustices of the death penalty and pressing Parliamentarians for change. Being one of the few countries around the world to still retain the use of the death penalty in…

…African Coalition Against the Death Penalty) – to discuss the death penalty in Africa. The speakers began by presenting recent developments related to the death penalty in their countries. For…

…Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and may in consequence apply the death penalty in time of war…

…Against the Death Penalty has been committed to promoting the concept of abolition of the death penalty in China, providing legal aid to those facing the death penalty, organizing death…

…Criminal Justice Reform), “The Challenging Path to Abolishing the Death Penalty” in Indonesia (KontraS),  “Drug Executions: The Politically Costless Victims of the Death Penalty in Iran” (Iran Human Rights),  “Annual…

…death penalty to fight terrorism. Commissioner of the International Commission against the Death Penalty, Tsakhia Elbegdorj outlined the 3 lessons in his experience of abolishing the death penalty in Mongolia…

…Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide – Cornell Law School, CrimeInfo – a member organization of Anti Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN), Death Penalty Action, Death Penalty Alternatives for…

…the death penalty On the occasion of this 56th session, several members of the World Coalition against the Death Penalty presented oral statements on the death penalty.  During the adoption…

…penalty cases during the High Level panel on the question of the death penalty.  A side event on the death penalty in Saudi Arabia was co-hosted by Reprieve and the…

Every October 10th, the World Coalition against the death penalty and its members celebrates the World Day against the Death penalty. In 2024 and 2025, the abolitionist movement will focus…

10 SENTENCED TO DEATH BECAUSE DELAY OF COMING INTO FORCE LAW THAT ABOLISHES MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING Abolish Death Penalty We, the 44 undersigned organisations, groups and trade…

…the death penalty, especially for non-violent drug crimes. During the discussion of the human rights situation in Myanmar, the need to immediately reinstate the moratorium on the death penalty was…

…crimes.” Michelle Bachelet also welcomed the announcement of measures taken to abolish the death penalty in its entirety in the Central African Republic and to abolish the mandatory death penalty…

…of the death penalty in ongoing efforts. UN ECOSOC AND UNODC’S WORK AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY The UN unequivocally opposes the death penalty and ECOSOC and its subsidiary bodies have…

…since the organization first began campaigning for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty in 1977. Since this landmark moment, countries that use the death penalty have become an increasingly…

…and degrading treatment and urged the Tanzanian authorities to amend the death penalty laws. For World Day Against the Death Penalty 2022, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty has…

…World Coalition Against the Death Penalty presented oral statements on the death penalty.  As the Biennial High-level Panel on the death penalty brought together panelists from various legal and governmental…

…the Death Penalty (Republic of the Congo) Cornell Center on Death Penalty Worldwide (USA/ International) Death Penalty Focus- DPF (USA) Ditshwanelo- The Botswana Centre for Human Rights (Botswana) Droits et…

…Forum underlined how unfair the death penalty is. Following up with the World Day Against the Death Penalty, a side event, organized by the World Coalition, FIACAT and FIDH, discussed…

…ECPM – Together Against the Death Penalty Harm Reduction International MADPET– Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty World Coalition Against the Death Penalty…

The death penalty in the Congolese legislation Whereas the death penalty is enshrined in the legislation, its implementation has been challenged. Through the 2003 de facto moratorium on the death…

…the Asia-Pacific region have abolished the death penalty for all crimes; Fiji has abolished it for ordinary crimes only, 10 are abolitionist in practice and 13 retain the death penalty….

With the theme “Women sentenced death: an invisible reality”, the 19th World Day Against the Death Penalty aimed to highlight the issues faced by women who are sentenced to death,…

…the Niger Coalition Against the Death Penalty. The death penalty on the agenda The opening ceremony marked the tone of the Session with two abolitionist calls. African Court Justice Blaise…

…for the first time since pollsters began asking the question, more Americans believe that the death penalty is applied unfairly than fairly. Unsurprisingly, public opposition to the death penalty is…

…links between the death penalty and gender discrimination. At the 8th World Congress Against the Death Penalty, new angles of thinking between gender and the death penalty were addressed, emphasizing…

…a glimpse of hope to the abolitionists. The death penalty reforms quickly disappointed abolitionists and international observers, however. Whereas the death penalty reforms aimed to amend the mandatory death penalty…

…CIVIL SOCIETY ORAL STATEMENTS ON THE DEATH PENALTY On the occasion of this 53rd session, several members of the World Coalition against the Death Penalty presented oral statements on the…

…progress in this direction and eventually abolish the mandatory death penalty. The death penalty in the Caribbean was the focus of World Day Against the Death Penalty 2013. Mental health…

…the death penalty: the Congress re-introduced the capital punishment in 1993 after the Constitution had abolished it in 1987. In 2006, the death penalty had been anew abolished. However, William…

…and drug trafficking. Apart from the violation of human rights and the inhumane nature of the death penalty, the application of the death penalty is arguably irreversible, and once a…

…Presentation of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, an alliance of more than 160 NGOs, bar associations, local authorities and unions, was…

…death penalty and in continuation of the 2021 World Day Against the Death Penalty dedicated to women facing capital punishment, sentenced to death, executed, pardoned or charged with a capital…

…abolition of the death penalty and freedom of belief. The death penalty was also an issue of concern during the General Debate on Human Rights Situations that Require the Council’s…

…clearly stated that “to implement the policy of gradual abolition of the death penalty and achieve the ultimate goal of death penalty abolition, the Ministry of Justice is planning to…

…against the Death Penalty recently published artwork by people on death row, and Abdorrahman Boroumand Center released a collection of stories from death row, a punishment that “doesn’t end at…

…Supreme Court questioning the constitutionality of the mandatory death penalty for the crimes such as murder, treason and armed robbery. In their petition, both defendants argued that mandatory death penalty…

…the death penalty”. The regional trend against the death penalty is a reality: 17 AU Member States have enacted laws to abolish the death penalty , including four States in…

…the mandatory death penalty is an accepted position for the country. Representatives from countries that have recently abolished the death penalty such as Zambia and Sierra took the floor to…

…the death penalty and that for a seven year period the govern observed a de facto moratorium on the implementation of the death penalty. Our organisations and institutions, listed below,…

During these 2 days, several aspects of the death penalty were addressed in very relevant interventions, among which: the history of the death penalty in Algeria with the interventions of…

…la Paix et la Justice (CPJ), Death Penalty Focus, German Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (GCADP), Greater Caribbean for Life, Hands Off Cain, Japan Innocence & Death Penalty Information…

…is the first time since 1999 that the king has spoken on the death penalty”, said Abderrahim Jamai, co-ordinator of the Moroccan Coalition Against the Death Penalty. MP Kadhija Rouissi,…

The World Coalition and its local member, the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP), have been highlighting the abuses linked to the use of the death penalty as…

…Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty. “The members of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty are our best partners and our supporters.” Story by Elizabeth Zitrin & Jessica…

…nitrogen gas in the United States reiterated its categorical opposition to death penalty everywhere in all circumstances. Australia welcomed Ghana and Malaysia’s progress towards abolishing the death penalty, but expressed…

…will certainly be a pro-death justice.” Finally, Speedy Rice fears “an increase in federal death penalty prosecutions and a push to renew federal executions”: “While the past federal death penalty…

…what they had to say about the death penalty.   The Death Penalty and Terrorism Amnesty International released a report entitled 2016 World Day against the Death Penalty, focusing this…

…in 2011 revealed that 89% of the public were in favour of keeping the death penalty. Moreover, the reluctance of Zimbabweans to impose the death penalty in different cases where…

…issue in the bilateral dialogue between Iran and the countries which are the main promoters of abolition of the death penalty on the international scene. If the death penalty is…

…death penalty is an issue that every state has the right to decide on.” Death penalty high on the UN agenda in 2014 Several side events on the death penalty…

…state report, nothing was reported this year. Silence on the death penalty In its 2014 review and in its 2018 report, China mentioned the death penalty to highlight progress made…

…Zitrin of Death Penalty Focus updated the AGM on the campaign to abolish the death penalty in California. Watch her interview below: The death penalty to enforce terror in Irak…

…orally.  Two resolutions on the death penalty were also passed. One championed by NGOs and the ACHPR’s working group on the death penalty, N°544 ‘Resolution on the Death Penalty and…

…on the death penalty front in China in the near future? I think that more intellectuals will agree with the abolition of the death penalty, and that we will be…

…of Zambia affirmed his commitment to the abolition of the death penalty on May 24 by commuting 30 death sentences and submitting a death penalty abolition bill to Parliament. He…

…the death penalty “Despite the 23 year moratorium, it is difficult to get rid of the death penalty. The non-application of the death penalty is not a problem for the…

…France, recalled, those events support the growing consensus in favour of the universal abolition of the death penalty. To date, 105 States are abolitionist, 7 have abolished the death penalty…

…in which the topic of torture and its link to the death penalty were investigated under the banner, “The Death Penalty: A Road Paved with Torture”. World Day falls under…

…blog post was first published by Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP), 20 November 2023, translated into English by The Death Penalty Project on 14 December and edited…

…the Death Penalty Worldwide (United States), and Hsinyi Lin, Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (Taiwan), focused on the fact-finding methodology to interview the death row population. Another workshop…

…Coalition Against the Death Penalty, and Choukri Latif of the Coalition tunissiene contre la peine de mort (a Tunisian anti-death penalty NGO), to address the committee regarding Tunisia’s failure to…

…a mandatory death sentence. The first bill, namely the Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Bill 2023 (DR 7) abolished the mandatory death penalty for all 12 offences which previously carried…

…rights activists and the death penalty abolition movement. At a Crossroads As Naomi Burke-Shyne, Executive Director of Harm Reduction International opened the HR19 conference, she mentioned the death penalty for…

…Against the Death Penalty are among several non-governmental organizations intervening in the case, in support of the full abolition of the death penalty. The constitutional challenge arises from the case…

…special rapporteur on the death penalty. European Union The main channel of collaboration between the EU and civil society on the death penalty is linked to funding provided by the…

TheDeath Penalty Information Center’s 2020 annual report highlights the continuing trend toward abolition in the US and the resumption of federal executions in a challenging COVID-19 context. The Death Penalty…

…the context of the death penalty. An entire part of the report focuses on socio-economic discriminations which echoes the World Day Against the Death Penalty’s theme: the death penalty and…

…global trend toward the abolition of the death penalty, a recent survey has identified that more than 80% of people support the death penalty in Japan. The Japanese government has continued to…

…Network for the Abolition of the Death Penalty, or heard a talk about the famous Spanish painter Francisco de Goya’s abhorrence of the cruelty of the death penalty, a group…

…Philippines. An educational and advocacy brochure titled “Keep the Death Penalty Abolished in the Philippines” has recently been finalized in 13 languages, including 11 local languages of the Philippines and…

…fair and accurate assessment. The Supreme Court, currently under renovation, is conducting life or death debates in a death penalty case. Photo credit: Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty…

…the death penalty The death penalty appears to enjoy widespread support in Indonesia, both in government ranks and among the general public. Media polls typically show around 75 per cent…

…to the Advancement of Human Rights and the Question of the Death Penalty.” How the judiciary may contribute to the abolition of the death penalty The discussion brought together panelists…

…today by UNODC, once again omits any mention to the application of the death penalty for drug-related offences. Achieving the abolition of the death penalty demands concentrated and combined efforts…

…for a Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty,” called on African Union member states to support the UNGA resolution on a moratorium on the death penalty.  Rising concerns…

…resumption of the death penalty was a way of appeasing large segments of the population who supported the death penalty as it conforms with the traditional tribunal ideology of revenge….

…Death Penalty. A Growing Trend Over the last 10 years, 7 states in the USA have abolished the death penalty, either by the legislature voting for a bill (New Hampshire…

If you are looking for a global picture of the death penalty for drugs If you seek a broad explanation of what the death penalty for drug-related crimes is, the…

…not include language on the death penalty” because of their unequivocal opposition to the death penalty in all circumstances, and because they considered that the death penalty undermined  human dignity…

…all.” At the end of 2018, 106 countries had abolished the death penalty in law for all crimes and 142 countries had abolished the death penalty in law or practice….

…the death penalty has a unique deterrent effect. As recently as March 2019, the UN has reiterated in unequivocal terms that the application of the death penalty for drug-related offences…

…death penalty for alleged child offenders for certain crimes, prosecutors can seek the death penalty against children for crimes such as murder. Abdullah al-Huweiti has been on death row since…

…in line with the World Day Against the Death Penalty’s theme this year, that focused on the impact the death penalty has on women. Resolution 483 is the fifth resolution…

…squad. However, Tobianski was later exonerated posthumously, highlighting the deep flaws of death penalty as an irreversible punishment. In 1954, the Knesset, abolished the death penalty for murder, but has…

…86% of Iranians oppose the practice of public executions Only 21% of Iranians say they would prefer qisas (death penalty as retribution) over another penalty if an immediate family member…

STATEMENT – WORLD COALITION AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty would like to express its sympathy and support to all courageous anti-death penalty activists who…

During the 8th World Congress Against the Death Penalty, in Berlin Germany, the phrase “the death penalty is being used as a political tool” was used frequently – in panels,…

…– International Federation for Human Rights MADPET – Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture Parliamentarians for Global Action Taiwan Alliance Against the Death Penalty World Coalition Against the Death Penalty…

…to campaign for the end of the death penalty. The Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture (MADPET) hopes “that there will be no more death penalty in Malaysia by the…

…in fighting a return to the death penalty. Here are some examples of how they are debunking narratives for reinstatement: Narrative: Sharia law requires the use of the death penalty….