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Together with AfVT, the World Coalition has developed this two-page note explaining why some victims of terrorism are against the death penalty.

• Document type Multimedia content
• Themes list Murder Victims' Families, Terrorism,
• Available languages Témoignages de victimes du terrorisme

Detailed information on the death penalty and terrorism.

• Document type Multimedia content
• Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Terrorism,
• Available languages Fiche détaillée sur la peine de mort et le terrorisme

The participants to the 6th World Congress against the death penalty have handed over their final declaration, calling again for the universal abolition of the death penalty.

• Document type Multimedia content
• Available languages Déclaration finale 6ème Congrès mondial contre la peine de mort

Some Human Rights and civil society groups wrote to the member states of the Human Rights Council to get them to support the resolution to renew the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran at the 31st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

• Document type Multimedia content
• Countries list Iran (Islamic Republic of)
• Themes list International law, Most Serious Crimes, Country/Regional profiles,

Joint statement calling on the government to immediately commute all death sentences; to investigate all allegations of torture made by persons sentenced to death, and to dismiss any and all convictions made on the basis of confessions obtained under conditions of torture; to re-impose a moratorium on the death penalty with a view towards abolishing the practice.

• Document type Multimedia content
• Countries list Bahrain
• Themes list Country/Regional profiles,

Joint Statement signed by Amnesty International, Anti Death Penalty Asia Network, Harm Reduction International, International Drug Policy Consortium, Penal Reform International and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty to highlight to Member States of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs and the preparatory Board of the 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs the continued use by some countries of the death penalty for drug-related offences despite clear restrictions set out in international law.

• Document type Multimedia content
• Themes list Drug Offences,

Missouri has had a surge in executions since 2008. The following data shows just how arbitrary and discriminatory Missouri’s death penalty system is. Such disparities in race, geography, and gender, are causes for concern that this system is broken and applied capriciously.

• Document type Multimedia content
• Countries list United States
• Themes list Discrimination, Country/Regional profiles,

• Document type Multimedia content
• Countries list United States
• Themes list Country/Regional profiles,

Annexes of the 2014 World Day Report

• Document type Multimedia content
• Themes list Mental Illness, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
• Available languages Annexes au Rapport Journée Mondiale 2014

This report presents the theme of 2014 World Day, facts on the death penalty and all the actions and media coverage for the 12th World Day on the progress made and challenges ahead.

• Document type Multimedia content
• Themes list Mental Illness, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
• Available languages Rapport Journée Mondiale 2014