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…death in the country. Philippines’ civil society led by FLAG Task Force, used the opportunity to bring awareness of death penalty to senators and members of House of Representatives in…

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;…

…to abstention. The Philippines moved from a positive vote to abstention while the Maldives regrettably moved from abstention to a negative vote.  A smaller but very active group of hard…

Reinstating the death penalty would violate Philippine’s international legal obligations, in particular, the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which the country has ratified….

…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…

…punishment in Asia. A second part consists of “National Profiles” on the death penalty in Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and China. A final section draws lessons from the…

…Assembly will consider a draft resolution calling for a global moratorium on executions. Angola, Albania, Brazil, Croatia, Gabon, Mexico, the Philippines, Portugal (for the EU) and New Zealand are presenting…

…panellists from other abolitionist countries, including Rwanda and the Philippines. Carmen Hertz, director of human rights at the Chilean ministry of foreign affairs, announced that her country would soon repeal…

…UN was founded in 1945 only eight of the then 51 UN Member States had abolished the death penalty. Today, 103 Member States have abolished the death penalty for all…

…countries around the world have already abolished the death penalty in law or in practice, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty works to ensure that this treaty becomes the…

…years, four Asia-Pacific countries abolished the death penalty for all crimes; Bhutan and Samoa in 2004, the Philippines in 2006 and the Cook Islands in 2007. Many retentionist countries have…

…attended the meeting. These include representatives of organisations and individual members from Australia, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand….

Bhutan, Nepal, Cambodia and the Philippines are the four Asian countries which have abolished the death penalty in domestic law, with Mongolia in the process of following suit after it…

…Duly Brutus (Haiti), José Antonio Meade Kuribreña (Mexico), Luvsanvandan Bold (Mongolia), Børge Brende (Norway), Albert F. del Rosario (Philippines), Didier Burkhalter (Switzerland), Mevlüt Çavusoglu (Turkey), Philip Hammond (United Kingdom) Illustration:…

…or use capital punishment, it also takes a firm stance in advocating that the death penalty should in fine be abolished everywhere. 2015 marks the 4th edition of this Joint…

…Philippines have abolished capital punishment, even if this latter, which abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 2006, is considering reinstating it as part of its war on drugs….

…Malaysia and Singapore have continued to execute people in 2015. The situation is particularly worrisome in Indonesia, where death penalty is widely enforced for drug-related offenses, and in the Philippines,…