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7th World Congress LIVE on Twitter!
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 26 February 2019
Follow the 7th World Congress Against the Death Penalty taking place in Brussels from 26 February to 1st March 2019 on Twitter: #7congressECPM
2019
Public Opinion

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“Living with the death penalty” at the World Congress
By Marion Gauer, on 1 July 2016
In addition to the academic debates and workshops, the organizers of the Congress had also prepared a nice surprise, on June 22nd, with the main event of their cultural program, soberly entitled “Living with the death penalty”. This event was hosted by Will Francome, a director involved in anti-death penalty work, and represented the opportunity to let these direct “witnesses” of the capital punishment speak about what brought them to be sentenced to death, their experiences on death row, and mostly the journey of their reintegration upon their release from death row. It also allowed relatives of current or former death row inmates to testify of their own fight, in favor of their family member as well as all the other individuals who had to go through this.
2016
Fair Trial

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Roundtable on terrorism at the 6th World Congress against the death penalty
By Marion Gauer, on 28 June 2016
From 21th to 23rd of June, the 6th World Congress against the death penalty took place in Oslo. These three days constituted an opportunity to gather the civil society, the political actors and lawyers worldwide, in order to discuss strategies aiming at abolishing the death penalty around the world. Among the noteworthy debates which were organized during this congress, the roundtable that was dedicated to terrorism (being also the theme of the next World Day against the death penalty, organized by the World Coalition) raised significant issues related to the use of the death penalty while countering terrorism.
2016
Norway
Terrorism

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Event on the UNGA resolution for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty at the World Congress
By Federica Merenda, on 27 June 2016
In the context of the 6th World Congress Against the Death Penalty, the World Coalition together with Hands Off Cain and Amnesty International co-hosted a side event focusing on the 6th UNGA resolution for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, whose adoption will be decided in New York in December this year.
2016
Moratorium

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Tackling resistance to abolition in Africa
By Thomas Hubert, on 22 June 2013
While Africa has been the fastest region in abolishing capital punishment in recent years, lawyers from Uganda and Nigeria say they are facing increasing from the authorities to use the death penalty.
2013
Innocence
Nigeria
Terrorism
Uganda

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Chinese lawyers hailed as “heroes for justice”
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 22 June 2013
The role of lawyers in the fight against the death penalty has been discussed from different angles throughout the 5th World Congress, but the testimony of Chinese lawyers caught most people’s attention.
China
Fair Trial
Legal Representation

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Asian progress paves the way for new strategies
By Thomas Hubert, on 20 June 2013
Although most executions continue to take place in Asia, their number is going down – and abolitionists are coming up with new ideas to bring about abolition.
2013
India
Japan
Malaysia
Mongolia
Moratorium
Singapore

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Linking the death penalty and torture to achieve abolition
By Thomas Hubert, on 20 June 2013
Recognising the process from sentencing to execution as a form of torture would ensure progress towards abolition in international law as well as in the US.
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

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EU regrets difficulties in dialogue with Belarus
By Tiziana Trotta, on 16 June 2013
European Union officials and Belarusian activists denounce Minsk’s lack of political will to tackle the death penalty.
2013
Belarus
Belarus
Public Opinion

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After abolition: what alternative to the death penalty?
By Thomas Hubert, on 15 June 2013
Ending the death penalty means finding replacement sanctions to punish former capital crimes – while taking into accounts human rights standards.
2013
Public Opinion