9th World Day Against the death penalty, 10 october 2011
The 9th World Day Against the Death Penalty will focus on the inhumanity of the death penalty as a cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment.
10/10/10: world day against the death penalty
On 10 October 2010, the 8th World Day Against the Death Penalty is dedicated to the US which executed 52 people and handed down 106 death sentences in 2009.
ICJ submission to the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review of human rights violations in Iran
The ICJ addressed the persistent failure of Iran to meet many of its human rights obligations and the wave of fresh human rights violations in the country in the aftermath of the June 2009 disputed presidential election.
The ICJ urged Iran to refrain from torture and ill treatment, end violations of freedoms of expression and assembly, abolish the death penalty and co-operate with international human rights mechanisms, including the Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council and the treaty bodies.
Iran-UPR-advocacy-2009 (full text, PDF)
The ICJ calls on the Palestinian Authority to abolish the death penalty and commute the executions imposed by military courts
The ICJ called on the Palestinian Government to abolish the death penalty, to commute the executions of the death sentences imposed by the military courts in Gaza and the West Bank.
La CIJ lamenta vía libre a la pena de muerte
La reciente sanción por parte del Congreso de Guatemala de una ley que pretende regular el recurso de gracia presidencial en casos de pena de muerte, pone fin a la moratoria de facto que rigió durante los últimos años.
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