INDEX
Article(s)
Outrage as Iran’s execution figures explode
on 12 February 2011
Iran hanged 121 people in six weeks between 20 December 2010 and 31 January 2011, many of them after unfair trails and for crimes that did not result in a person’s death.
2011
Drug Offenses
Fair Trial
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Juveniles
Moratorium
Article(s)
UN resolution: the abolitionist front grows stronger again
on 22 December 2010
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty welcomes the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of a third resolution calling for a universal moratorium on the use of the death penalty.
2010
Moratorium
Article(s)
United Nations headed for new moratorium resolution
on 15 November 2010
A proposed United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for a global suspension of executions has gained the support of two more countries pending a plenary vote next month.
2010
Bhutan
Kiribati
Maldives
Mongolia
Moratorium
Togo
Article(s)
British sodium thiopental finds its way into Arizonian death chamber
on 2 November 2010
A shortage in one of the component of lethal injections has led to the drug being imported from Britain in violation of European law to carry out an execution in Arizona.
2010
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
United Kingdom
Article(s)
World Coalition takes part in UN death penalty report launch
on 30 May 2010
The World Coalition held a side event to accompany the presentation of the 8th Quinquennial Report of the UN Secretary General on capital punishment in Vienna on May 19.
2010
Death Row Conditions
Innocence
Juveniles
Legal Representation
Article(s)
International pressure on Iraq to stop executions
on 18 February 2010
Several UN member states taking part in Iraq’s UN human rights review have asked Bagdad to restore a moratorium on the use of the death penalty and to move towards abolition.
2010
France
Iraq
Iraq
Italy
Terrorism
United Kingdom
Article(s)
Belarus moratorium a condition for closer ties with Europe
on 23 June 2009
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has decided not to restore Belarus’s special guest status until the country establishes a moratorium on the death penalty.
2009
Belarus
Belarus
Moratorium
Article(s)
Is the death penalty a cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment under international law?
on 20 March 2009
Special Rapporteur Manfred Nowak raised the issue at the UN’s Human Rights Council, triggering a debate in which World Coalition member organisations had their say.
2009
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Article(s)
Saudi Arabia slammed over child executions, discrimination
on 21 February 2009
United Nations agencies, governments and NGOs criticised Saudi Arabia’s death penalty record at the UN’s universal periodic review of human rights.
2009
Juveniles
Saudi Arabia
Article(s)
Nations of the world to vote on fresh moratorium resolution
on 8 November 2008
As the 63rd session of the UN General Assembly gets under way in New York, the spotlight is once again put on a text calling for a global moratorium on executions.
2008
Moratorium