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…of this draft African Protocol on the abolition of the death penalty and explained the reasons why the States should support it. It is about an African instrument of Human…

Gathered for 3 days in Brussels on the occasion of the 7th World Congress Against the Death Penalty, abolitionists from all over the world shared their experiences to consolidate the…

…summit in Kigali, Rwanda. Throughout the summit, they advocated for the recognition of the reality of women on death row in the fight for women’s rights. They also organized an…

…highlighting trafficking linked to the bodies of the executed and the authorities’ lack of transparency on the death penalty. May 5 update: The Paris Appeals Court confirmed the first ruling,…

…at least 24, the majority (21) for terrorism. As many were the death sentences pronounced during the year. At least 12 of the 24 executions took place under the authority…

On 15 December 2022, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 9th resolution for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty with 125 votes in favor (2 more…

…Singapore is among 35 countries that retain the death penalty for drug offences, Harm Reduction International highlighted.   The recently amended Misuse of Drugs Act stipulated that the accused could…

…abolition of the death penalty in Pakistan? Public opinion is in favour of the death penalty. The argument is religious: this is an area where religious law clashes with state…

…the death penalty Florence Bellivier said: “The government of Bangladesh should join the international trend towards the abolition of the death penalty and immediately commute the death sentences into lesser…

…the ACHPR itself, but also on the advocacy opportunities that civil society has within this human rights body for the abolition of the death penalty. The World Coalition identified the…

…the National Association of Criminal Defence Lawyers, Elizabeth Zitrin, member of the executive board of Death Penalty Focus. The delegation will meet the President of the General Assembly. The General…

…sentenced to death, the families and relatives, as well as the lawyers. There are many ways in which the civil society organisations can support the people sentenced to death and…

…the first revised protocol in June. The day after the OAL adopted the protocol the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office obtained an execution date for Brown. Fortunately for Brown, numerous…

…last year even though their age at the time of the crime had not been properly established and despite the fact that the legislation clearly forbids the death penalty should…

The brutality of the Bahraini government’s response to several weeks of protests earlier this year had drawn criticism from many. Yet the story faded out of the news rather quickly….

On 30 April 2021, the World Coalition published the following article on the abolition of the death penalty in Malawi. Since its publication, the abolitionist status of the country has…

…charges. China made use of the death penalty as a tool in the “Strike Hard” campaign, which the authorities characterized as a response to terrorism and violent crime in the…

…death penalty for certain crimes encouraged other states to adopt similar strategies. Indeed, After Madhya Pradesh introduced legislation that prescribed the death penalty for the rape of minor girls, the…

…Greater Caribbean for Life, in partnership with: Puerto Rican Coalition Against the Death Penalty Alpha Chambers The Catholic Commission for Social Justice World Coalition Against the Death Penalty Community of…

…range of subjects, among them the death penalty.” The government in transition “The current interim government has little power to change the laws in Tunisia,” noted Bensedrine, “but we can…

The 13th annual report on the death penalty by Iran Human Rights (IHR) and ECPM (Together Against the Death Penalty), shows that despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Islamic Republic continued…

…abolishing the death penalty in Africa. Burundi adopted a new penal code in April 2009 which abolished the death penalty from the legislation. Several other countries, notably Mali, are reviewing…

…what death penalty supporters might reject as foreign interference in US affairs. Despite the hesitation about the way to address this issue and the short time available, the discussion yielded…

…at the global level. The death penalty is “remote from humanity” Angola’s Justice Minister Guilhermina Prata said that her country abolished the death penalty in 1992 after it became a…

…death penalty was increasing. Now it is declining by almost every measure,” said Richard Dieter, DPIC’s Executive Director and the author of the report. “The recurrent problems of the death…

…permanent abolition of the death penalty in the Greater Caribbean; – supporting Caribbean abolitionist activists and organizations in the Greater Caribbean Region; and – collaborating with the international abolitionist community….

…of the IDPC expressed her concern regarding the reintroduction of the death penalty in Philippines. On that subject, Leni Robredo, Vice-president of the Philippines gave her opinion in the opening…

…the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty; and lawyers from around 15 countries including Taiwan and China. The traditional Chinese version follows the publication of the English and French editions…

…for an official moratorium to be restored. In a statement, the Commission said: “HRCP welcomes the government’s statement that it would persist with the moratorium on death penalty. The news…

…“Moratorium on the use of the death penalty”, and recognizes “the global trend towards the abolition of the death penalty”. The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty welcomes the increasing…

The Greater Caribbean For Life (GCL) and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (the World Coalition) are part of a joint project, led by The Death Penalty Project and…

…while many of these reduced their use of the death penalty, a small number of countries, including, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, increased executions. The Death Penalty In 2011: Global…

…the fight against the death penalty. Its objective is to obtain the universal abolition of the death penalty. For more information read: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/5476/ Be informed about the situation  by following…

…to meet the four men for the last time before they died. “These executions cast a dark shadow on the country’s human rights record, and blatantly contradict the Justice Minister’s…

…to Pope Benedict XVI to request “the excommunication of the death penalty. We are asking the Pope to definitively speak out against the death penalty”. The convention took place during…

…the global trend towards the abolition of the death penalty. In Asia, the largest retentionist area in the world, a breakthrough occurred. Mongolia and Thailand had previously voted against the…

…of the Council of Europe”, thanks to which “the European continent became the largest area in the world where death penalty is outlawed”. The World Coalition was “expecting official commitments…

…hopes that the complete abolition of the death penalty from the laws of the country is achieved soon. The organisations is ready to share every effort of President Elbegdorj and…

…law. “Given ongoing grave human rights concerns related to drug control in Iran, including the lack of due process, the application of the mandatory death penalty and the high rate…

…highlighted that the death penalty leaves no room for reparation in cases of miscarriages of justice. “There are instances where the death penalty was imposed on an innocent individual instead…

…South Korea which voted in favor of the the resolution for the first time. The Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Guinea, Nauru, the Philippines, and…

…for the repeal of the death penalty in the state. The director of the Illinois Coalition to Abolition the death penalty, Jeremy Schroeder, explains how local abolitionists have been campaigning…

…and the shameful Western complicity.” Amnesty International stated that the executions are “the latest demonstration of Saudi Arabia’s politicized use of the death penalty to silence dissent in the Eastern…

…the review of the Dominican Republic: “Spain welcomes with satisfaction the abolition of the death penalty and hopes that the Dominican Republic will ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the…

…penalty under international human rights law and standards continued to be violated in many countries. We also saw Chad and the US state of Colorado fully abolished the death penalty,…

…World Congress Against the Death Penalty that his country was trying to widen the scope of the death penalty. “The bill against homosexuality, which includes the death penalty and is…

…“the barbaric practice of killing people”. The Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty and the Italian Coalition Against the Death Penalty also expressed shock at the three hangings. Center…

Joint Oral Statement delivered during the United Nations 46th Human Rights Council Biennial high-level panel discussion on the question of the death penalty. The FIACAT, the Advocates for Human Rights,…

…Alliance to End The Death Penalty – TAEDP  The Advocates for Human Rights – TAHR  The Death Penalty Project – DPP  Witness to Innocence – WTI  The newly elected Steering…

…Thailand-based human rights organisation, explained why the death penalty is a form of torture at the 2010 World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Geneva. Watch his interview below  …

…cultural identity. In conclusion, they called for the creation of national and sub-regional coalitions which would favour the emergence of an inter-Arab coalition against the death penalty in the long…

…lobby of fundamentalist Christian churches, support the death penalty. No executions have taken place in the country in the past 10 years, which places it in the de-facto abolitionist category….

…reflective of the same fierce will to overcome that painful experience in order to live again, allow us to grasp the reality of the death penalty from an on-the-ground perspective….

…penalty. Its objective is to obtain the universal abolition of the death penalty. As a human rights network fighting against the death penalty and state-sponsored executions, we are horrified by…

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the president and the prime minister to extend the informal moratorium on execution of death row prisoners after a presidential…

The Death Penalty Project (DPP) is a legal action charity based in London. Our main purpose is to promote and protect the human rights of those facing the death penalty…

Asia is the continent that executes the most people for drug-related crimes. The report, published for the 13th World Day against the Death Penalty, analyzes how the death penalty is…

Extract from the FIACAT press release published on 29 April 2020. To read the press release : http://fiacat.org/en/media-press/press-releases/2874-press-release-abolition-of-the-death-penalty-for-acts-of-terrorism-in-chad According to Salomon Nodjitoloum, President of ACAT Chad: “The abolition of the…

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, in solidarity with its members in the United States, joins the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) of the United…

…resulted in the death sentence. The report also denounces that in mass trials, defendants are regularly sentenced to death on the basis of false accusations of terrorism linked to the…

…10th – marked since 2003 as World Day against the Death Penalty – the European Day against the Death Penalty. The official launch of the European Day will take place…

Among the key findings from the 2017 Global Overview report: At least 33 countries and territories prescribe the death penalty for drug offences in law. At least nine countries still…

…such injustice: “the more people are informed about the death penalty, the more they oppose it”. Roundtable on wednesday february 24Racial, ethnic, and social bias in the death penalty.  …

…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….

…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….

…World Coalition Against the Death Penalty strongly condemns Arabi’s death sentence and calls on the Iranian authorities to rescind it immediately. The President of the World Coalition, Florence Bellivier, stated:…

…have put more people to death within half a year than any other President in a whole term in American history. The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty and its…

The text below is the first one written by the regional coalition’s activists for Africabolition.org, a cross-border publication tool set up by Together Against the Death Penalty and the World…

Kazakhstan ratified the UN treaty aiming at the abolition of the death penalty on 24 March 2022. A year after the Parliament passed the bill authorizing the ratification of the…

…activists and human rights defenders to continue encouraging the country: “The approach of the parliament in Benin is consistent in the sense that by authorizing the ratification, they give a…

…2014, for the first time, Fiji voted in favour of the resolution entitled “Moratorium on the use of the death penalty”. Fiji abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in…

…the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, Dominican Republic ratified the American Protocol for the abolition of the death penalty on 27 January 2012. Angola, Benin, Bolivia, Cambodia and Poland…

As part of its efforts to mainstream a gender lens in the abolitionist movement, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty just released a glossary on gender and the death…

The Puerto Rico Constitution specifically prohibits the death penalty.  Notwithstanding, the US federal authorities in what has been called “the oldest colony of the World” consistently tries to impose such…

…official. “We went against that sentence and against the death penalty as a punishment. Reactions were strongly negative.” Yet the next year, after OMDH included the death penalty among “serious…

…that has become an icon of racial discrimination in the use of the death penalty. Supreme Court decides death sentence is valid The petition comes as the US Supreme Court…

…issues such as discrimination in the administration of the death penalty and ways to establish strategies against capital punishment. The World Congress also makes room for testimonies from the victims…

…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….

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

…of Justice will follow the Privy Council’s lead and restrict the application of the death penalty. The PM’s attempt to reintroduce executions is similar to what occurred in neighbouring Caribbean…

Algerian MP Ali Brahimi (photo) filed a bill aimed at abolishing the death penalty on December 6. The text was sponsored by 20 other lawmakers and states: “The death penalty…

…death penalty and to work to educate the public to bring about the end of its use. By 2009, 139 countries in the world had abolished the death penalty in…

The international day “Cities for Life – Cities Against the Death Penalty” is organised by the Community of Sant’Egidio and supported by the World Coalition and the European Union. It…

A new investigation of the death penalty in North Korea by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH, a World Coalition member) concludes that “the death penalty in the DPRK…

…trafficking. Figures on the application of the death penalty are not made public and most death sentences involve drug-related crimes. The presumption of guilt and the mandatory use of the…

…losing ground in the USA according to the Death Penalty Information Center’s annual report. To know more about the history of the abolitionist movement in Virginia: How Virginia’s Death Penalty…

…form of his justice minister’s lifting the Polish veto on the creation of the European Day Against the Death Penalty. The EU, which imposes the abolition of the death penalty…

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;…

…New York. The text “calls upon all States that still maintain the death penalty … to establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty”. It…

In the framework of this project, the World Coalition wants to support partner civil society organizations in organizing activities for the World Day Against the Death Penalty (10 October).  For…

…cabinet ministers. While World Coalition’s member Think Centre “welcomes the Singapore Government’s move to review the mandatory death penalty”, Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Campaign (SADPC) “gratefully acknowledge that the government has…

…point the finger: “Sixteen countries in Asia apply the death penalty for drug-related offences. As many countries in the region do not make information on the death penalty available, it…

…them with the general prison population.” Founded in 1988, Death Penalty Focus is one of the largest non-profit advocacy organisations in the US dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment….

…revenge, but they are both facing the wall of the death penalty. They are the protagonists  of a sad and hard, yet beautiful film. Diao Yi Nan, who directed Night…

“Considering the death penalty as torture in international law would not be another step, it is the ultimate step to establish that the death penalty is illegal all the time,…