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…again.” The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP) has launched the “Shouting from the rooftops” campaign. Its aim is to inform the public that the existence of capital…

…lack of legal representation for defendants in death penalty cases at their final trial, and concerns that the death penalty is being applied for more than the most serious crimes….

…Why Malaysia must abolish the death penalty”. By the end of 2019, a new legislation to remove mandatory death penalty for 11 offences is expected to be tabled in the…

…Arab country, a public debate was held on the theme of terrorism and the death penalty. According to Together against the death penalty (ECPM), a partner in the event, the…

…no mandate to address the death penalty”, said Egyptian delegate Amr Roshdy Hassan. He called for a vote on the death penalty section of the report. “Such reports are usually…

…its members The Advocates for Human Rights and the Iraqi Coalition Against the Death Penalty. The Advocates have now filed the document in preparation for Iraq’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR)…

…the occasion of the round table dedicated to NHRIs at the 8th World Congress Against the Death Penalty, ‘How to Work with NHRIs for the Abolition of the Death Penalty’…

…why the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty will do everything it can to raise awareness among Iraq’s civil society of the absurdity of using the death penalty intensively. The…

…the first State to abolish the death penalty in law since 1965. What is more, the decision by the Supreme Court to examine the constitutionality of lethal injection last October…

…all will increase the use of the death penalty as their only and most efficient weapon to confront the unrest. The international community and especially Iran’s European dialogue partners must…

…of the criminal code. The current review of the criminal code aims to further broaden the scope of application of the death penalty, in direct contravention to stated Kazakhstan policy…

…interviewees came from the deprived Siliana region, which explains the title used for the Tunisian edition of the publication: “The Siliana syndrome: why the death penalty should be abolished in…

…the Hong Kong Legislative Council, stressed that Hong Kong has abolished the death penalty in 1993 and that the crime rate has been decreasing in the past ten years. “Changes…

…The ACHPR first mentioned the death penalty in a 1999 resolution, calling on all African states to : “a) limit the imposition of the death penalty only to the most…

…the severity of the death penalty in Iran and the United States during the Advocates for Human Rights’ January 22 training on death penalty advocacy for the Universal Periodic Review…

…region who wish to find more sustainable, long-term solutions to crime and violence to lift their voices against the inhumanity of the death penalty. Let us encourage governments in the…

…ACLU, Death Penalty Focus and California Crime Victims for Alternatives to the Death Penalty provided critical support to the party activists leading the effort,” said Natasha Minsker, Death Penalty Policy…

The Italian NGO, Hands Off Cain, travelled to Kinshasa between June 11-14 to raise awareness about the abolition of the death penalty among the Democratic Republic of Congo’s politicians and…

The event was organised in Pozzuoli by the Angeli Flegri association with support from other organisations including the Italian Coalition Against the Death Penalty, the Texas Coalition to Abolish the…

…ranking official with the country’s counter-narcotics agency opposed the elimination of the death penalty for drug traffickers, noting that any changes in the law would have to be made by…

…ministry and World Coalition member organisation ECPM, abolitionists explained the roles of different actors in the global fight to eradicate the death penalty: lawyers, diplomats, associations… and the youths themselves….

…improve Parliamentarians’ contributions towards abolition and to educate on the lack of deterrent effect of mandatory death penalty. The Mandatory Death Penalty in Malaysia The roundtable discussed the Malaysian legal…

…population about the dangers of death penalty,” Mpagi said. “The Journey has sparked the fight against the death penalty in Uganda. I saw prominent religious leaders changing their stand on…

…an international law custom was being established: one that considers that the application of the death penalty amounts to an act of torture in all circumstances. The death penalty is…

…“The question of death penalty did not evolve much since the revolution” – and the abolitionism clearly displayed in the message sent to the attendees by the Tunisian President Moncef…

…Producing a documentary film accompanying the conference and web design for the Nigerien Coalition against the Death Penalty; 3. Financing the activity program of the Nigerien coalition and institutional support….

As of 21 June 2019, 106 countries worldwide have abolished the death penalty for all crimes, 8 other countries have abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes and 28 countries…

…a delegation of the International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICDP) visited Seoul to meet with the President of the National Human Rights Commission in Korea (NHRC) Lee Sung-ho, the…

…the community about the death penalty and in providing legal representation to condemned prisoners. The chairman of the Puerto Rico Bar Association’s Commission on the Death Penalty, Juan Matos, said…

From leading newspaper Asahi Shimbun to national television NHK, the range of media in attendance at the launch of the report The Death Penalty in Japan on 11 March in…

…There were street demonstrations in support of the families of victims, but also against the death penalty. The coalition counted then 60 organizations, parties and movements. It resulted in amending…

Final declaration by the participants in the 5th World Congress against the Death Penalty Resolution by the Core Group of countries supporting the World Congress against the Death Penalty Call…

…no one has been executed. Presently there is a moratorium placed on the death penalty but there is a need for the urgent repeal of death penalty in the country.”…

…concentrated its action since its creation two years ago: drug offences subject to the death penalty, transparency on the use of the death penalty, unfair trials, the fate of sentenced…

…fighting towards abolition of the death penalty locally and globally”, Warburton said. A new tool to fight the death penalty “Parliamentarians and the abolition of the death penalty – a…

…abolition of the death penalty in Africa; – the ratification of the second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; – the adoption of the resolution…

…over 5,000 prisoners. San Quentin has one of the largest death rows in the world. The ongoing debate over the future of the death penalty in the state has brought…

…criminal codes, so they can join the community of abolitionist states;  Highlighting the actions and the continued support of the European Union in the fight against the death penalty;  We…

…of the death penalty in Africa; – the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; – the adoption of the resolution calling…

…inhumanity of the death penalty – the theme of the 2011 World Day against the death penalty. The general public will also have the chance to attend four different training…

The representatives of the seven NGOs who met in Tunis on 14 June have announced the creation of the Tunisian National Coalition Against the Death Penalty. “The coalition will work…

…the end of the legislature, in 2012. The World Coalition played an active role when the last proposal to abolish the death penalty in South Korea was issued for the…

…of DRC, who explained the government’s position towards abolition of the death penalty: recalling the atrocities committed across the country, he declared the DRC would not overturn the de facto…

For the 21st World Day Against the Death Penalty dedicated to the reflection on the relationship between the use of the death penalty and torture or other cruel, inhuman, and…

…abolition of the death penalty. The conference will be an excellent opportunity to discuss the death penalty and poverty, the theme of the 15th World Day Against the Death Penalty….

…a small state like The Gambia when larger states such as the United States still maintain the death penalty. The ACHPR’s working group on the death penalty presented a resolution…

…Rights The Advocates for Human Rights The German Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (GCADP) The Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU) Tunisian Coalition to End the Death Penalty Tunisian…

…Overall, the outcomes of the forum were very positive. The highlight of the event culminated in the emergence of a draft bill to abolish the death penalty, that will soon…

…put forward a motion on the abolition of the death penalty, and other organisations were welcome to amend it. The text adopted by the International federation “recalls vigorously its long-lasting,…

…ECPM board member, “The international community considers that Morocco has abolished the death penalty in practice; it is a country that deserves abolition”. Each of the speakers then justified abolition…

…serious investigations and frank discussions on the death penalty. It emphasizes the need for proper information on the risks and shortcomings of the death penalty, including on the irrational fears…

…the difficulties in Indonesia was the lack of knowledge of the population around the death penalty”. There is simply not enough public debate going on. The role of the media…

…showed that there is a “real dialogue on the death penalty” at the ECOWAS Court. “The aim is to establish a moratorium first before challenging the death penalty as illegal”…

Kenya is one of a few target countries for the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty’s “Gender and the Death Penalty” campaign; a campaign that is being conducted in collaboration…

…the one hand, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (part of the Preamble to the Lebanese Constitution) enshrines the “the inherent dignity of all members of the human family,” the…

…repeatedly promised to do in the past years. The Constitutional Court recommended abolition or a moratorium in 2004, legislative reforms have reduced the scope of the death penalty and the…

…international law and reducing the application of the death penalty. In particular, possibly as the result of the focus of World Day Against the Death Penalty 2014 on the death…

…the UPR process. For example, they organise one-hour meetings between NGOs and UN Member states to share their knowledge about the situation of the death penalty in the countries to…

…Asia, Malaysia repealed the mandatory death penalty for all offences and reduced the scope of this punishment; Pakistan abolished the death penalty for drug related offences; and the authorities of…

…death. We, the Iraqi, Arab and World Coalitions Against the Death Penalty oppose the death penalty under all circumstances and any form. We disagree with such legislation and we demand…

A process initiated in 2009 in Togo Togolese MPs abolished the death penalty unanimously on 23 June 2009; the death penalty was then removed from the criminal laws of the…

…the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said: “About 140 of the 192 States Members of the United Nations are believed to have abolished the death penalty or…

…been providing free legal representation for the petitioners. They have received support from the Death Penalty Project, a British NGO that offers legal help to people facing the death penalty…

…Assembly of the United Nations. Call the Bars of the retentionist countries: -To promote the reduction of the scope of the death penalty in their criminal Code; -To ensure compliance…

…fanciful. Although it also strongly discourages the death penalty and encourages other means of resolution, the Koran does sanction the practice in certain cases. This has been the backbone of…

…of the death penalty. Mohamed Habib Marsit, who chairs the Tunisian Coalition Against the Death Penalty, is not surprised: “We had no illusions regarding the balance of forces,” he told…

…by abolitionist organizations from around the world in the entrance hall, the quiet corridors of the conference centre were humming with discussions between activists and announcements for the numerous thematic…

…of the OAS. The UN Protocol and the regional Protocols are key mechanisms that share the same objective: strengthen and entrench the abolition of the death penalty in the world….

…This means that the American administration ordered more executions in the past month than in the 1988-2003 period that followed the restoration of the federal death penalty in 1988, after…

…of the World Coalition is to strengthen the international dimension of the fight against the death penalty. Its ultimate objective is to obtain the universal abolition of the death penalty….

…exhume the bodies in order to identify the victims and return them to their families for a decent funeral. Finally, recognition of these crimes is fundamental to the recovery of…

…bit later. Then they go to the goats’ shed to feed, let them out and milk them if necessary. They will milk the goat just enough to bring her relief….

…by inviting other Arab countries to join and challenge the use of the death penalty in the region; • to establish an Arab observatory for the death penalty under the…

…of the “scandalous” mandatory death penalty The GCL network is also seeking “to encourage Trinidad and Tobago, and Barbados to remove the mandatory death penalty” as they are the only…

On September 6, 2024, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, in partnership with The Advocates for Human Rights, the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, the International Network…

The international trend away from the death penalty was cited by Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy following the historic vote in the state’s legislature to end the use of capital…

The conference was held by the Rwandan government with Hands off Cain in collaboration with the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty under the aegis of the African and European…

…the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty. At least 189 people have been executed since the start of the year. Abolitionists the world over have risen up against this acceleration…

The fight of the members of the World Coalition for the abolition in law of the death penalty in Tanzania In Tanzania, the fight for abolition is enhanced by the…

…which have radicalized a lot of actors which we find again as armed actors on the battlefield.” The death penalty subject to the electoral schedule Elections in the country have…

…grows to the age of 18 and then execute him/her.” As the world prepares to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the World…

…the government that the country’s constitution had banned the death penalty. “The undersigned organisations urge the Democratic Republic of the Congo to clarify its position regarding the death penalty and…

…Dr. Ruth Wijdenbosch, who had already announced the swift abolition of the death penalty in June 2014 during the Annual Assemby of the World Coalition against the death penalty in…

…Belarusians aware of the current death penalty situation The level of awareness on the current status of affairs regarding the execution of death sentences is quite high, at 32.8%. Some…

…is the danger of the death penalty”, Liu said. “The lawyers face a lot of difficulties and their impact in death penalty cases is limited in general. But with their…

…continent. One of the bigger events is the ‘Regional Conference on the Abolition and/or Moratorium on the Execution of the Death Penalty’ organised by the Government of Rwanda with Hands…

…on the death penalty underlining that “the use of the death penalty is declining, but not fast enough” and that the fight against the death penalty must go on as…

…for the abolition of the death penalty. It also suggested that while recognising that Australia consistently makes recommendations on the death penalty as part of the review of the UN…

…the physical conditions on death row in India exacerbate the prisoners’ emotional distress (also know as death row phenomenon). According to the Death Penalty Worldwide database, the conditions on death…

…on death row, the struggle to secure a fair trial in eight of these countries.  “Only a small number of countries in Asia are still using the death penalty but…

…years on Pennsylvania’s death row. Parallel with California According to the Death Penalty Information Center’s 2014 Year End Report, the country saw the lowest number of death sentences handed down…

…evolving standards and values that indicate that the death penalty has no place in civilised society.” While two-thirds of the world’s states have already abolished the death penalty in law…

…voted for the death penalty, change their position”, noted Cushing in reference to the two Republicans that voted for the repeal bill. As the bill was not defeated in the…

…Congolese judge did not retain the death penalty but applied the statute of the International Criminal Court. Julien Cigolo said that Congolese lawmakers should specifically remove the death penalty from…

…the web site! The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty would like to thank all the participants again for their involvement in the 5th World Day Against the Death Penalty….

…13 May 2002. The aim of the World Coalition is to strengthen the international dimension of the fight against the death penalty. Its ultimate objective is to obtain the universal…

…dynamics, to move collectively towards the common good. This would contribute to furthering the death penalty issue within the United Nations arenas, when focusing on the role of business on…

…the world’s countries had abolished the death penalty in law or practice. 112 countries, a majority of the world’s states, had abolished the death penalty in law for all crimes and 144 countries…

…country in good stead to abolish the death penalty. Countries like Malawi that have made the transition to democracy increasingly see abolition of the death penalty as a necessary step…