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…the World Coalition, several abolitionist figures expressed the opposition to the death penalty publicly. In India, lawmaker Ravikumar wrote an article that was widely published in the press and on…

…who disagree with the use of the death penalty in the case of their loved ones. They are looking for individuals or organisations who could refer them to families fitting…

The World Coalition expressed “its grave concerns as to the use of the death penalty in the UAE” in a letter sent to Emirati Justice Minister Dr Hadef bin Jua’an…

…of supporting the ratification process of the draft Protocol, at the level of the African Union, as well as its entry into force. Commissioner Maya Sahli Fadel introduced the text…

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,…

…The monitoring is carried out in partnership with the Head of the Somali Prison Administration, Gen. Bashir. According to the research, in 2017 there has been an increase in executions,…

…provide enough information to receive the certificate, as illustrated in the case of Bill Agbozo, a Ghanaian man executed to death in 2018. Second, when the accused have borderline intelligence…

…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…

Produced in the context of the second phase of the project on “Contributing to the abolition of the death penalty in sub-Saharan Africa”, this guide provides information not only on…

…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…

…Coalition member the Bahrain Center for Human Rights. Working in cooperation with Amnesty International and other organizations, the Bahrain Center has succeeded in bringing global attention to the case of…

…Supreme Court deemed the death penalty unconstitutional and in violation of the right to life. This verdict will result in all statutes that prescribe the death penalty being amended. The…

…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…

…months away from the June presidential elections in Iran. In previous years, Iranian authorities have intensified the use of the death penalty in the months leading up to the elections,…

…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…

…in diplomatic circles, to maintain the death penalty on the UN’s and international leaders’ agenda when dealing with the US. In individual cases, legal intervention can take the form of…

…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…

…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…

…on 19 December 2013 by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC). One of the reasons for fewer executions in 2013 was States’ inability to obtain lethal injection drugs. Executions declined…

…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….

…China Against the Death Penalty. Watch Teng Biao explain how the manual is going to help attorneys in China: In a statement welcoming the publication of the Chinese version, Prof…

…informal moratorium that has been tried in the country in the last few years. For an abnormally high number of offences that carry the death penalty remain on the statute…

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…

…“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…

…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…

…at these so-called ‘executions according to law’,” TAEDP said in a statement. The organisation pointed to irregularities in the executions, including the demand by at least condemned man to have…

…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…

…second time.  Increasing support The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty welcomes the increasing support for the resolution (+3) and congratulates the 109 governments that voted in favour. The World…

…in 1992, then suspended in 1997 in the absence of progress in the areas of democracy, human rights and the rule of law. The PACE’s political affairs committee had recommended…

…day against the death penalty – Cities for Life, organized by the Community Sant’Egidio November 30, 2010. In order to involve civil society in the abolitionist commitment, the Community delegation…

…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…

…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…

…place in several countries, including Iran, Thailand and Malaysia. At the international level, political support for the abolition of the death penalty for drug offences is also gaining considerable momentum….

…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…

…flying in the face of “international calls for the abolition of the death penalty”. In India, Lawyers for Human rights International “condemns the execution” and calls on Japan to end…

…consensus on the methodology to study the deterrent effect because too many other factors can influence the results. The death penalty often distracts from needed systemic reforms in crime prevention,…

…Practices for Abolition of the Death Penalty, 45 member organizations of the World Coalition met in person in Kenya and 20 others joined online to participate in the meetings. The…

…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….

…people who also suffered from the injustice of the capital punishment. Then, Suzan Kigula, another former death row inmate in Uganda, explained how she worked hard while in prison in…

…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…

…pressing reasons for HRCP’s longstanding opposition to the death penalty in Pakistan have changed in any way since the government decided to put in place an informal moratorium on executions…

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…

…deplorable conditions and kept in a secret location away from other prisoners. In recent years there has been a resurgence of the death penalty in the context of the fight…

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…

…been executed. Finally, the report reveals that despite this increase in death sentences in Egypt, in violation of the rules of international law in this field, the European Union, several…

…the death penalty at the United Nation’s next General Assembly. The EU will need to join with partners from other continents to present the resolution as a truly international initiative….

…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….

…such as ‘insulting the Prophet’. Reversal of these death sentences must be the highest priority of the international community’s dialogue with Iran”. The Revolutionary Guards arrested Soheil Arabi in November…

…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…

…towards abolition of the death penalty.” Ratification will bring relief to the 14 people currently on death row in Benin. The last execution in Benin occurred in 1987 by firing…

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;…

…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…

…are next on the list. They all made international pledges to ratify those Protocols for the abolition in the near future. With the beginning of the 2nd Cycle of the…

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…

…in the 1980s to defend political prisoners in Morocco. She was inspired by the movements at work to help political prisoners in South-American dictatorships at the time. She then became…

…Although the president of the United States cannot intervene in the case of a state death row inmate, Mumia’s supporters believe that Obama should use his influence in a case…

…of the cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment that is the death penalty. In a pre-Congress session, the participants to a screening of the film Manners of dying Tuesday evening got…

…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…

…Belize, Dean Oliver Barrow, introduced the legislation in the hope of preventing defense lawyers from successfully appealing death sentences on the basis of them being inhuman and degrading – which…

…for the 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty, the World Coalition and its partners would like to grant targeted financial support to local civil society organizations in the Philippines…

…on the use of the death penalty in 2007 and 2008. However, Algerian courts have passed death sentences on three occasions in recent months. Click here to download the Algerian…

…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…

…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…