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…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…

…Protocol the only international instrument on the death penalty? Currently there are four international treaties which provide for the abolition of the death penalty. The Second Optional Protocol is the…

…facing the death penalty. The Council also requested that the Secretary-General dedicate the 2025 supplement to his quinquennial report on death penalty to the consequences arising at different stages of…

…discussion of the death penalty dehumanizes them. Saul reminded that these studies are creating new discourses, changing the atmosphere of social dialogue, and dismantling public stereotypes. Finally, Saul shared that he…

…their children (…). » [11]The motion taken by the NBC is available at the following link: https://www.cnb.avocat.fr/sites/default/files/cnb-mo2019-02-09_ldh-caei_peine_de_mort_sedillotfinal-p.pdf [12]The text of the joint resolution of the Paris Bar and the International…

…the Declaration). In conformity with this commitment, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty was created in Rome, Italy, on 13 May 2002. The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty…

…The present report shows that the process of reviewing the cases of those sentenced to death for drug offenses has resulted in the commuting of many death sentences. Although these…

…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…

…the death penalty in the OIC States. The report aims to show the different legislative and institutional stages of the abolition of the death penalty in these States and to…

…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…

…and restraint of government power. The Ministry of Justice, as the competent authority for the death penalty, on the one hand knows that there is a problem with the law…

…on the human rights violations associated with the use of the death penalty, in particular with respect to the theory that the use of the death penalty has a deterrent…

…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…

…the international community and the Iranian civil society are the main driving forces behind any reforms towards restricting the use of the death penalty in Iran. The few times we…

…universal abolition of the death penalty. Goals: The aim of the World Coalition is to strengthen the international dimension of the fight against the death penalty. Its ultimate goal is…

…Resolutions adopted While there was no specific resolution on the death penalty at this session, some of them were linked to the death penalty: Extension of the mandate of the…

…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…

…declaration to define the territorial application of the Protocol: “Until the full re-establishment of the territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova , the provisions of the Convention shall be…

…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…

…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 adoption process.  Advocating for the adoption of the death penalty by the African Union is a step in the right direction. Photograph Copyright: World Coalition Against the Death Penalty…

…include the abolition of the death penalty. According to Ms. Kayitesi, Commissioner and President of the Working group on the death penalty of the ACHPR, political leaders have the last…

…the UK, The Justice Institute Guyana and the Center for Small States organized a conference on “Challenging the Death Penalty in the Commonwealth Caribbean”. GCL’s chair made a presentation at this…

…de facto Law Minister, during the Parliamentary session on 2/11/2016 clarified that Malaysia was not just looking at the mandatory death penalty, but all death penalty.( “(The Sun Daily, 3/11/2016)…

…Hon. Dr. Pindi Hazara Chana, who pledged that the government would work against the death penalty. The NETWORK for the Abolition of the Death Penalty and Cruel Punishment (REPECAP) led…

…their position against the death penalty and their commitment to its abolition. The Working Group on the Death Penalty and Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions in Africa of the African…

…life or death debate took place in April this year. This time, I had the opportunity to attend the oral arguments of the “Chen Fu-hsiang death penalty case” at the…

…the death penalty in the country was welcomed. The annual report of the Secretary General on the question of the death penalty was also presented. This report commends the efforts…

…place in the international arena as an ally in the war on terrorism. The resumption of the death penalty was feared in the past amid worries that the international aid…

…Corredor (World Coalition Against the Death Penalty). Moderation was provided by Mabassa Fall, FIDH representative to the African Union. The speakers presented the situation regarding the death penalty in their…

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…

…of the law on the abolition of the death penalty.  The death penalty was also mentioned during the presentation of the Secretary-General’s report on the situation of human rights in…

…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…

…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…

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…

…death penalty in Washington State in 2014” and that the “rationale for that decision was affirmed by the) Supreme Court decision in 2018, when they invalidated the death penalty statute.”…

…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…

…core of the discussions What stands out of the different interventions is the desire to link the issue of the death penalty to the rule of law. The participants referred…

Over the last few decades, we have made great strides toward the universal abolition of the death penalty. Nevertheless, despite the progress we have made, the death penalty remains entrenched…

…that at the writing of this letter, Malawi’s death row remains empty. The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty and 67 other co-signing organizations are impressed to note that 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…

…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…

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…

…practice? Is there any chance the death penalty will be abolished via legislation? Unfortunately, this is unlikely at the moment, but this path is unavoidable in the long term. I…

20th World Day against the Death Penalty On this 20th anniversary of the World Day Against the Death Penalty dedicated to the link between torture and the use of the…

…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…

…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…

…the various panels that were proposed, regional issues emerged, and the relevance of the speaker’s comments was highly appreciated. One of the most successful roundtables was on the death penalty…

…the Government’s intention to abolish the death penalty, to transform the de facto moratorium into abolition of the death penalty, and to ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR. …

…ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR aiming at the abolition of the death penalty and by commuting all death sentences. They also highlighted the need to combat prison…

…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…

…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…

…the ACHPR. Change in Participation- Prioritizing the Session over the NGO Forum Unlike previous advocacy work within the sphere of the ACHPR, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty did…

The 19th World Day Against the Death Penalty highlighted the intersectional discrimination that women face in the judicial process leading to the death penalty, making visible one facet of the…

…and inhumane nature of the use of the death penalty. Finally, the work of civil society organizations is needed at all levels to ensure that these issues are systematically taken…

…at the NGO Forum.  A second resolution was passed laying the foundation for the ACHPR’s working group on the death penalty to update their 2011 study that reviewed the state…

…on the Death Penalty, click here.  By: Lisa Borden, a volunteer with The Advocates for Human Rights, currently based in Geneva, Switzerland. Link to the original article in English: https://theadvocatespost.org/2019/10/09/the-rights-of-children-whose-parents-are-sentenced-to-death-the-case-of-tunisia/…

…May, during the 60th ordinary session of the ACHPR, the Working Group on the death penalty and extrajudicial execution organized a panel on the death penalty. In its intervention, 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…

…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…

…addressed during the high-level event on the death penalty at the 34th session of the Human Rights Council.  The abolition of death penalty is a matter of principle, not a…

…death penalty as well as secret executions. Towards the abolition of the death penalty in Malaysia Malaysia being the host country of the conference, the abolition of the death penalty…

…of the death penalty but allows states parties to retain the death penalty in time of war if they make a reservation to that effect at the time of ratifying…

…first one was dedicated to the death penalty and poverty, the theme of the next World Day Against the Death Penalty, in which intervened Shreya Rastogi, Center on the Death…

…year for the abolitionist community, there are still a few concerning points to mention. Worrying developments in the countries that apply the death penalty the most The death penalty continues…

…periodic report was studied along with Senegal –abolished the death penalty in December 2022.  Additionally, Honorable Idrissa Sow announced that the 2011 study on the death penalty in Africa would…

…education combined with creativity. The Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN, Malaysia) focused their events mainly on the youth and gave them the chance to express themselves, such as through poetry…

…staff of its Secretariat physically attended the Session in Banjul, Gambia; all other participants attended the Session online via Zoom. The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (World Coalition) followed…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…meet this threshold.  In both cases, the death penalty was imposed as the mandatory sentence, which meant that the judge could not consider the particular circumstances of the offence or…

Discussing Death Penalty Abolition in Egypt On 25th April, the day after the opening ceremony of the 64th Ordinary Session of the ACHPR, a panel on the death penalty was…

…rules on the legality of the mandatory death penalty. In 2010, the Court of Appeal at Mombasa held that the mandatory death penalty violated the right to life and the…

…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…

…or retentionist. These are the categories identified by Amnesty International and used by many anti-death penalty organizations, including the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty and the Maldivian Democracy Network….

…opening plenary session, which presented the meeting’s theme: Death penalty at a crossroads – USA abolition in the context of global strategy. Farrell set the stage for the weekend with…

…the African Union, noting that most moratoria on the death penalty are in Africa. He speculated that Africa might become the second death penalty-free continent, after Europe. Senegal’s Minister of…

…continent that impose the death penalty for terrorism. He also observed that “there is no convincing evidence” that the executions reduce the number of such crimes globally. Instead: “More people,…

…not at the instigation of a public entity. The general rule is therefore that the only behaviour attributed to a State at international level is that of its government organisations…

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, and ACAT-France, ACAT-Germany (and their partner organization Federal Association of Vietnamese Refugees in the Federal Republic of Germany), Amnesty International, Anti-Death Penalty Asia…

…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….

…part of the government of the Philippines to reintroduce the death penalty, who, under the leadership of President Duterte, has called for a return to the death penalty since his…

…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,…

Chosen as the theme of the World Day against the Death Penalty on 10 October 2018, living conditions on death row are subjected to general standards in line with those…

…advocacy videos, the newspaper Dawn published the story of three families victims of the death penalty. Through storytelling, JPP wished to demonstrate how unfair and inadequate the death penalty is….

…persons with intellectual disabilities, in the case of these nine prisoners, their disability was not even brought to the attention of the courts. The report also speaks about the pains…

…A publication of the FIDH, Going backwards: the death penalty in Southeast Asia, has revealed, despite the secrecy surrounding the use of the death penalty in the region, that Indonesia,…

…the collapse of the Justice and Development Party (PJD), an islamo-conservative formation that has been in power for 10 years. The Moroccan Coalition Against the Death Penalty hope that the…

…the death penalty was a CEDAW issue and concluded by questioning the Malaysian government’s plans to abolish the death penalty, thus reaffirming their commitment to abolishing the death penalty. In…

…testified in the Constitutional Court that they had decided to retain the death penalty for the same offences to which it currently applies. One key change that the drafters did…

The 9th World Day Against the Death Penalty was celebrated at the UN Palais des Nations in Geneva at a debate on international jurisprudence as regards the death penalty and…

…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…

…in line with the actual domestic situation of the death penalty. As its name suggests, the resolution does not call upon States to formally abolish the death penalty, but rather…