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What Strategies Towards the Abolition of the Death Penalty in West Africa? : Report of the Symposium in Dakar
By FIACAT, on 1 January 2012
2012
NGO report
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The regional seminar on the abolition of the death penalty in West Africa took place inDakar (Senegal) from 12-14 November 2012. This workshop brought together nineteenACAT members affiliated to FIACAT. It was therefore possible for each of the nine West Afri-can ACATs1to be represented by two participants (with the exception of Senegal, whichwas represented by three members).Participants at the workshop attended lectures and had the opportunity to developnational action plans for achieving abolition in their countries. According to feedbackreceived at the end of the seminar, attendees found the practical nature of the lectures,and the opportunity to network with other ACATs and learn from the experiences of otherparticipants, particularly beneficial.This document is a collection of all of the lectures from the Dakar seminar, as well asinternational and African texts relating to the death penalty. It is intended as a practicaltool to assist us as we progress towards abolition in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Member organizations, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
The Death Penalty in North Korea: In the machinery of a totalitarian State
By International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) / Speedy Rice, on 1 January 2012
NGO report
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The death penalty is a violation of the right to life; however, its use in the DPRK has, overthe years, been particularly extensive and substantially different from other countries. Thisis partly due to the DPRK’s totalitarian system, characterized by widespread and systematichuman rights violations that aim at maintaining social order and political control.While the government of the Republic of Korea (also known as South Korea) has retained thedeath penalty, it is considered to be abolitionist in practice, having carried out no executionssince December 1997. By contrast, the DPRK has consistently used the death penalty, and hasnever allowed any organization to investigate the matter. Nevertheless, information derivedfrom witness observations and the few existing reliable reports, reveal thousands of executionssince the 1950s, with the largest numbers in the 1990s and the 2000s. Since 2010, dozens ofpeoplehavebeenexecuted.TheDPRK’sintensesecrecyjustifiestheconclusionthattheselargenumbersarelowerthantheactualfiguresinreality.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages La peine de mort en Corée du Nord : dans les rouages d’un État totalitaire
Document(s)
China Against the Death Penalty Report 2012
By China Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2012
NGO report
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The original report in Chinese was in three parts. Part I, translated here, outlines the legal system and its application in relation to the death penalty. Part II introduces the use of the death penalty review system following the Supreme People’s Court’s resumption of its power to review death sentences on January 1st, 2007. Part II also analyses the influence of the death penalty review system on the new criminal procedure law that will come into effect in 2013. Part III introduces a number of death penalty cases.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages 中国死刑观察报告
Document(s)
Children of parents sentenced to death
By Helen F. Kearney / Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2012
NGO report
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This paper will raise awareness of some of the issues facing the child. It will consider and elaborate on each of these issues in as much detail as the current literature permits.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Murder Victims' Families, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Life after death: What replaces the death penalty?
By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2012
NGO report
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Report from PRI that analyzes how there has been a global trend towards the universal abolition of the death penalty and a restriction in the scope and use of capital punishment over the last fifty years.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
Document(s)
The State of Criminal Justice 2012
By American Bar Association / Ronald Tabak, on 1 January 2012
NGO report
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The American Bar Association recently published The State of Criminal Justice 2012, an annual report that examines major issues, trends and significant changes in America’s criminal justice system.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
State-sponsored Homophobia: A world survey of laws criminalising same-sex sexual acts between consenting adults
By Lucas Paoli Itaborahy / International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA), on 1 January 2012
NGO report
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This annual report is characterized by contrasts – some victories to celebrate against a background of hateful laws still in force and hate crimes around the world.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Minorities, Capital offences, Homosexuality,
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Partners in Crime: International Funding for Drug Control and Gross Violations of Human Rights
By Harm Reduction International, on 1 January 2012
NGO report
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In providing specific examples of financial and material support provided by UN and international donors for drug control efforts, and human rights concerns raised by such support, the report compels readers to think critically about government efforts to meet their ‘shared responsibility’ to address drug use and drug-related crime
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Drug Offences,
Document(s)
DEATH ROW PHENOMENON VIOLATES HUMAN RIGHTS
By Human Rights Advocates, on 1 January 2012
NGO report
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Conditions surrounding the death penalty and its application necessitate examination and recognition of the tortuous experience endured by death row inmates, as it culminates in the onset of the death row phenomenon
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Death Row Phenomenon,
Document(s)
Freedom of Thought 2012: A Global Report on Discrimination Against Humanists, and the Nonreligious International Humanist and Ethical Union Atheists
By International Humanist and Ethical Union, on 1 January 2012
NGO report
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This report shows that atheists, humanists and other nonreligious people are discriminated against by governments across the world, sometimes facing death.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Minorities, Religion ,