Gabon and El Salvador’s official accession to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Gabon acceded to the Second Optional Protocol on 2 April 2014. The country had abolished the death penalty for all crimes in February 2010. El Salvador acceded to Second Optional Protocol on 8 April 2014. …
News
Gabon and El Salvador’s official accession to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Gabon acceded to the Second Optional Protocol on 2 April 2014. The country had ...Read More
Imminent execution of Reyhaneh Jabbari
Reyhaneh Jabbari was sentenced to death by a Criminal Court in Tehran in 2009 ...Read More
Execution of Ramiro Hernández Llanas, in Texas, US
The International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICDP) condemns the execution by lethal injection ...Read More
Imminent execution of Ramiro Hérnandez Llanas
Ramiro Hérnandez Llanas, a Mexican national, is under imminent risk of execution by authorities ...Read More
Mass death sentences in Egypt
Following a trial held on 23 and 24 March 2014, 529 individuals were sentenced ...Read More
Events
Combatting Torture and Abolishing the Death Penalty in the OSCE Region: Two sides of the same coin?
ICDP Commissioner Ioanna Kuçuradi participated in the side event....Read More
ICDP Commissioner Bill Richardson visits the US state of Delaware to support efforts to repeal the death penalty
On 27 March Commissioner Bill Richardson visited the US State....Read More
High Level Panel Discussion on the Question of the Death Penalty
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human....Read More
UN Human Rights Council event on International Actions with the view to abolishing the death penalty
On the occasion of the high-level segment of the Human....Read More
ICDP Country Mission to Suriname, 12-13 February 2014
Commissioner Ruth Dreifuss and British Member of Parliament, Greg Mulholland....Read More
