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SingaporeMigrant workers facing capital punishment show need for alternative sentences
Article by Think Centre published on April 26th, 2012Four Singapore-based organisations denounce the high risk of miscarriage of justice in recent death sentences handed down on poor immigrants and calls for the abolition of the death penalty in the city-state.
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USAConnecticut increases momentum for abolition
Lawmakers in the US State of Connecticut have abolished capital punishment and the State’s governor has said that he would sign the bill into law. Elizabeth Zitrin of the US NGO Death Penalty Focus chairs the World Coalition’s working group on the United States. She writes on the significance of this news for the wider abolitionist movement.
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LawyersThree years to save lives in Nigeria
A conference to launch the project SALI: Saving Lives, was held in Abuja, Nigeria, on 27 March. It marked the start of the project activities while encouraging discussions on the issue of the death penalty in Nigeria.
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StatisticsAlarming levels of executions in few countries - Amnesty
In a new report, Amnesty International analyses some of the key developments in the worldwide application of the death penalty, citing figures it has gathered on the number of death sentences handed down and executions carried out in 2011.
Article by Amnesty International published on March 27th, 2012
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- Special issues
Helping the world achieve a moratorium on executions
Published on September 14th, 2010
9th World Day Against the Death Penalty: the inhumanity of the death penalty
Published on June 10th, 2011
The World Coalition's campaign in favour of the UN Protocol on abolition
Published on January 07th, 2011
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World Day
9th World Day Against the Death Penalty: the inhumanity of the death penalty
On 10 October 2011, the 9th World Day is to raise awareness on the inhumanity of the death penalty throughout the entire process, from sentence to execution.
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Protocol
The World Coalition's campaign in favour of the UN Protocol on abolition
The World Coalition’s objective is the ratification of the United Nations Protocol on the abolition of the death penalty by all the states parties to the ICCPR that have abolished the death penalty, either for all crimes, or for ordinary crimes only.
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Moratorium
Helping the world achieve a moratorium on executions
In December 2012, the United Nations’ General Assembly will vote on a new resolution for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty. Following the three previous resolutions, the Coalition continues its action in favour of a global moratorium.
