INDEX
Article(s)
Calendar of events for World Day 2015
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 15 September 2015
Browse the schedule and the map to prepare and promote the events planned around the world on the big day.
2015
Drug Offenses
Article(s)
Links between death penalty and mental health exposed from Japan to Nigeria
By Thomas Hubert, on 15 October 2014
The 12th World Day Against the Death Penalty was marked by hundreds of actions on all continents, in the media and online.
2014
Japan
Mental Illness
Article(s)
Dialogue should make death penalty “a sentence of the past” – foreign ministers
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 9 October 2014
Twelve governments from countries with and without capital punishment release a joint declaration calling for a world that “respects human dignity” on World Day Against the Death Penalty.
2014
Argentina
Australia
Benin
Burkina Faso
Haiti
Intellectual Disability
Mental Illness
Mexico
Mongolia
Norway
Philippines
Switzerland
Turkey
United Kingdom
Article(s)
Death penalty systems disregard mental health – experts
By Thomas Hubert, on 25 September 2014
Despite international and national standards banning the use of capital punishment against mental ill or intellectually disabled people, health professionals familiar with death row say it is full of prisoners who should instead be receiving treatment.
2014
Intellectual Disability
Mental Illness
United States
Article(s)
ECPM takes social media campaign to the fair ground
By Bronwyn Dudley, on 16 September 2014
World Coalition member organisation Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM) was at September’s Fête de l’Humanité in Paris to spread awareness of the 12th World Day Against the Death Penalty on October 10.
2014
France
Intellectual Disability
Mental Illness
Article(s)
Calendar of events for World Day 2014
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 19 August 2014
On 10 October 2014, the 12th World Day Against the Death Penalty is drawing attention to people with mental health problems who are at risk of a death sentence or execution. Browse the schedule and the map to prepare and promote the events planned around the world on the big day.
2014
Intellectual Disability
Mental Illness
Article(s)
Indian ruling highlights importance of next World Day
By Emile Carreau, on 3 February 2014
On 21 January, India’s Supreme Court formally banned the execution of mentally ill prisoners and in doing so highlighted why this year’s World Day against the Death Penalty, which is dedicated to issues of mental health, is so important.
2014
India
Intellectual Disability
Mental Illness
Article(s)
Calendar of events for World Day
By WCADP, on 10 September 2013
On 10 October 2013, the World Day Against the Death Penalty is focusing on the death penalty in the Greater Caribbean. Browse the schedule and the map to prepare and promote the events planned around the world on the big day.
2013
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Article(s)
The death penalty and the situation in Africa debated in Kinshasa
on 17 October 2011
A debate led by members of the World Coalition in the Democratic Republic of Congo discussed international law, local sensitivities and abolition.
2011
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Fair Trial
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World Day Buzz In Africa
By Emile Carreau, on 6 October 2011
Conferences, round tables, talks, tours, meetings with politicians, debates, press conferences, sit-ins, cultural evenings, marches and speeches are among the many events that will take place in Africa for this 9th World Day Against the Death Penalty.
2011
Benin
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Moratorium
Murder Victims' Families
Public Opinion
Rwanda