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  • Homepage Helping the world achieve a moratorium on executions Speaking out in favour of a global moratorium on executions
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    • Speaking out in favour of a global moratorium on executions

      Article published on October 25th, 2007

      Together with filmmaker Tim Robbins, abolitionists launched an appeal from New York to support the proposed UN resolution imposing a freeze on executions. Five million people signed the petition supporting this initiative. Watch the video.

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    • Read the press release announcing the handover of 5 million signatures in favour of the moratorium
      Download full-length videos of all the speeches
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