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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…

…death penalty. They called for the government to adopt a de jure moratorium on the use f the death penalty and the commuting of all death sentences.Watch the intervention here. …

…Convention, extracted the content repeated by the interviewees and conducted thematic analysis based on the verbatim transcripts of the interviews. He said that the death penalty is not just an…

…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…

…my brother in the meantime.” The eyewitness told IHR that in the judge’s room there were folders of the cases from floor to the ceiling. He also said that “prisoners…

…penalty case studies, writing investigative reports on the death penalty in China, participating in the World Congress Against the Death Penalty, and becoming a member of the Asian Network Against…

…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…

…the Death Penalty presented 17 oral statements on the death penalty.  During the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, 4 oral statements…

…its press release, the Ministry of Justice claims that, in accordance with the Guidelines Regarding the Execution of Death Penalty Cases, they sent inquiries to the relevant authorities to verify…

…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…

…of the abolitionist cause seems irreversible, abolitionists risk serious setbacks in the years to come. Among two-thirds of the countries in the world that have abolished the death penalty in…

…including against individuals who had participated in protests. The report also reiterated the deeply flawed processes that preceded the imposition of the death penalty, including lack of access to a…

…the death penalty, as well as the growing concern at the irreconcilable conflict between the death penalty and the infliction of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment…

…the UN). The application of the term treaty, in the generic sense, signifies that the parties intend to create rights and obligations enforceable under international law. The Vienna Convention 1969…

…in the Kyoto Declaration at the 14th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice” in April 2019. In their opinion, the JFBA recommended that the outcome document of the…

…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 Death Penalty held a press conference and sit-in in front of Parliament, and in Palestine, a sit-in took place in Ramallah. A report was published by the Cairo Institute…

…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…

…discussed the death penalty in their respective country and underlined the impact of poverty on the death penalty. LEDAP’s representative emphasized how corruption is prevalent in Nigeria. Because they do…

…Criminal Justice Reform), “The Challenging Path to Abolishing the Death Penalty” in Indonesia (KontraS),  “Drug Executions: The Politically Costless Victims of the Death Penalty in Iran” (Iran Human Rights),  “Annual…

…Currently in Malaysia, even after the mandatory death penalty is abolished for drug trafficking, there still remains about 11 other offences that provide for the mandatory death penalty, while about…

…published. This book gathers the texts of thirty-seven Moroccan writers and intellectuals defending the abolition of the death penalty in Morocco and the reproductions of the works presented in the…

…moratorium on the death penalty in the country. During the Interactive Dialogue with the independent expert on the situation of human rights in the Central African Republic, the abolition of…

…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…

…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…

Addressing living conditions on death row In the wake of the World Day against the Death Penalty, living conditions on death row in sub-Saharan Africa was at the heart of…

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…

…sentences have been trending down since their historic highs in the late 1990s. In the past two decades, eleven states have abolished the death penalty, bring the total of non-death…

…The reports on the ICCPR offer an insight into the death penalty situation in Taiwan. In its submission, the government stated that the official position since 2007 was “to gradually…

…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.”…

…welcoming Ghana’s acceptance of all the recommendations to abolish the death penalty and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR (OP2-ICCPR). They also included a poem from the “death…

During these 2 days, several aspects of the death penalty were addressed in very relevant interventions, among which: the history of the death penalty in Algeria with the interventions of…

…develop instruments that reinforce the limits on how the death penalty can be applied in practice. Second, donors must fund comprehensive studies on the implementation of the death penalty in…

…moratorium on executions.  The steps that the Republic of Malawi have recently taken in view of abolition of the death penalty have been commendable. In this regard, we at the…

…the 79 countries that retain the death penalty, only two meet the international standard of limiting it for the most serious crimes. The criminalization of certain offences was also questioned….

…the use of the death penalty throughout the OSCE region on the basis of information provided by the participating states themselves. NGO can submit information to the ODIHR and participate…

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…

…on challenging the widespread misconception that the death penalty enhances safety for individuals and communities. In this context, we will explore in this article why the death penalty is not…

…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…

…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…

…involved indirect intentional homicide. After indirect intentional homicide was integrated into Taiwan’s criminal justice system, and in the spirit of the Covenant, which limits the use of capital punishment to…

…LGBTQIA+ individuals sentenced to death, executed, or whose death sentences have been commuted or pardoned. We recommend that governments in countries that still retain the death penalty: Abolish the death…

…a tortuous practice in and of itself.  The current definition of torture in international law excludes the death penalty According to current international standards, the death penalty is not considered…

…Christians for the Abolition of Torture (FIACAT) to discuss the project for the abolition of the death penalty in Africa, which was set up in 2015 and is nearing its…

…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. …

…of the death penalty! During the debates  During the Interactive Dialogue with the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran on March 18, Chairperson Sara Hossain, denounced the…

…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 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…

…into account in the abolitionist struggle. In Berlin, the Gender Working Group of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, which brings together member organizations with an interest and/or expertise…

…November 2022.  The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, along with the FIACAT (International Federation of ACATs), Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (Uganda), Nigerien Coalition Against the Death Penalty, the…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…Philippines. An educational and advocacy brochure titled “Keep the Death Penalty Abolished in the Philippines” has recently been finalized in 13 languages, including 11 local languages of the Philippines and…

…next Regional Congress against the Death Penalty in Africa in 2018 in preparation for the 7th World Congress against the Death Penalty to be held in Brussels in February 2019….

…kill at all. People in the world, do not let this happen again, thank you.” Asma Jahangir of the International Commission against the Death Penalty discussed the situation in Asia….

…in Bahrain. According to Amnesty International, at the end of 2020, there were 27 such cases in Bahrain[3]; End Bahrain’s opposition to the biennial resolution at the United nations General…

…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…

…It officially became the 24th African state to abolish the death penalty. Other states seem inclined to abolish the death penalty in the coming months. The President of the Republic…

…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…

…in which the topic of torture and its link to the death penalty were investigated under the banner, “The Death Penalty: A Road Paved with Torture”. World Day falls under…

…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…

…against the death penalty, the Network of Parliamentarians against the death penalty in Morocco and the Network of lawyers against the death penalty will be conducted in the coming days….

…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…

…use of the death penalty in Singapore, it is unclear what procedural steps the authorities took in the lead up to the execution warrants being issued in these two cases,…

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…

…their decades of work in that country. Federico Mayor, president of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty, cited the important work of both intergovernmental and civil society organizations, including…

…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….

…death penalty were built and strengthened. “High profile death penalty cases are gradually informing the general public in Taiwan about the dangers of the death penalty,” said Hsinyi Lin, ADPAN…

…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…

…media campaign  #Nodeath*]}*penalty to stop the death penalty. This initiative focuses on the large number of innocent people who wrongfully sentenced to death. The campaign includes the video Innocent Sentenced…

…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…

…and the growing number of law enforcement professionals and criminologists denouncing its inefficiency to combat crime have been instrumental in curbing the use of the death penalty in the US….

…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,…

…row inmates in Pakistan (particularly in the Punjab region) reports weekly deaths in custody due to poor sanitary conditions, including regular deaths of people on death row. Next, specific training…

…to limit the scope of the death penalty, ensure that no juveniles or individuals with any disability are sentenced to death and amend the Anti-Terrorism Act. Indeed, this legal arsenal…

…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…

…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…

…regional institutions, and NGOs gathered in Banjul, also home to the ACHPR Secretariat. The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (World Coalition) participated alongside numerous member organizations, including FIACAT (International…

…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…

…Indonesia, and send the wrong message to drug dealers. Ironically, opponents of the death penalty cite the same facts in arguing for abolition. To retain the death penalty when Indonesia’s…

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…

…(Re-)introducing the death penalty. Reintroduction of capital punishment for drug offences is discussed in the Philippines and included in a bill recently approved in the lower house of Parliament.(14) This…