Calendar of events for World Day 2014

World Day

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 19 August 2014

The 12th World Day Against the Death Penalty is an excellent opportunity to publicly oppose the use of this inhumane punishment and to support those who are fighting for its abolition all over the world.

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> Get in touch with the World Coalition to announce the events you are preparing for October 10 and we will promote them widely on the internet!

> Find out more about the World Day and download posters, leaflets, tips to organise an event, etc.

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In 2007, the World Coalition made one of the most important decisions in its young history: to support the Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty as a step towards universal abolition. A moratorium is temporary suspension of executions and, more rarely, of death sentences. […]

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