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A delegation from the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty participated in the annual session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to highlight the often-overlooked realities faced by women in contact with the criminal justice system, including those facing the death penalty.

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty is publishing two new guides designed to help abolitionists and their allies incorporate a gender-responsive approach into their advocacy efforts. 

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (World Coalition) actively advocated during the 91st session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), held in Geneva from 16 June to 4 July 2025, to denounce gender-based discrimination in the application of the death penalty in Afghanistan and Thailand.

The United Nations Human Rights Council convened its 60th regular session from 8 September to 8 October 2025. If you missed it, here is what happened regarding the abolition of the death penalty!

Within the framework of the latest public session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), held in Banjul (The Gambia) in October 2025, the Tunisian Republic presented its first periodic report to the ACHPR since 2006. Tunisian abolitionist civil society had also submitted an alternative report and was present to put forward […]

It was an early opportunity to mark World Day Against the Death Penalty, which The Advocates for Human Rights (The Advocates) and other members of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (World Coalition) observe annually on 10 October. On 7 October 2025, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on the “question of […]

The public session of the ACHPR’s 85th Ordinary Session (African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights) was held in Banjul, The Gambia from 21 to 30 October 2025.

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (WCADP), in partnership with members and allies who have worked on preventing the return of the death penalty, has published a new how-to guide for civil society organizations (CSOs) on how to react in the face of a risk of a return to the death penalty.

From April 27 to 30, 2025, the Harm Reduction International (HRI) conference in Bogotá brought together several hundred activists, researchers and human rights defenders committed to drug policies based on health, rights and justice.

On February 25, 2025, the biennial high-level panel on the death penalty was held at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, under the theme “Contribution of the Judiciary to the Advancement of Human Rights and the Question of the Death Penalty.”