20th WORLD DAY AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY

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The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, an alliance of more than 160 NGOs, bar associations, local authorities and unions, was created in Rome on 13 May 2002. It was created as a result of the commitment made by the signatories of the Final Declaration of the 1st World Congress Against the Death Penalty organized by the French NGO Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM) in Strasbourg in June 2001.

The aim of the World Coalition is to strengthen the international dimension of the fight against the death penalty. Its objective is to obtain the universal abolition of the death penalty. To achieve its goal, the World Coalition advocates for a definitive end to death sentences and executions in those countries where the death penalty is in force. In some countries, it is seeking to obtain a reduction in the use of capital punishment as a first step towards abolition.

The World Coalition is striving to achieve these aims in the following ways:
by supporting its member organizations, local, national and regional abolitionist forces;
by coordinating the international advocacy towards worldwide abolition of the death penalty.

History

The participants to the first World Congress Against the Death Penalty, initiated and organized by the French NGO Together Against the Death Penalty, adopted the Strasbourg Declaration on 22 June 2001 in the hemicycle of the Council of Europe. In paragraph 9, the signatories pledged to “create a world-wide co-ordination of abolitionist associations and campaigners, whose first goal will be to launch a world-wide day for the universal abolition of the death penalty”.

After several preparatory meetings in Paris and Brussels, most of the initiative’s protagonists met in Rome on 13 May 2002 to create officially the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty. An 11-member Steering Committee was selected then renewed at each General Assembly every two year.

THE DEATH PENALTY IN PRACTICE 

(Statistics from Amnesty International)

  • 110 States have abolished the death penalty for all crimes
  • 7 States have abolished the death penalty for common law crimes
  • 27 States are abolitionists in practice
  • 55 States are retentionists
  • The 5 States that executed the most in the world in 2021 are, in order: China, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Syria.
  • 28,670 individuals are known to be under a sentence of death around the world at the end of 2021.

https://worldcoalition.org/campagne/20th-world-day-against-the-death-penalty/

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