8th ICDP meeting in Brussels: Commissioners meet EU and Belgium government
The International Commission against the Death Penalty held the 8th meeting of its Commissioners in Brussels on 2 and 3 of December 2013. During the two-day meeting, the Commissioners met Mr. Dirk Achten, Secretary-General of …
News
Indonesia – fifth execution in 2013
Muhammad Abdul Hafeez, a 44 year-old Pakistani national, was reportedly executed in secret on ...Read More
152 individuals sentenced to death following a mass trial in Dhaka, Bangladesh
The International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICDP) condemns the death sentences handed down ...Read More
International experts welcome efforts toward the abolition of the death penalty in South East Asia; Bangkok, 23 October 2013
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in cooperation with ...Read More
Support grows for UN Protocol to abolish the death penalty – Guinea-Bissau and Angola
On 24 September 2013, Guinea-Bissau’s ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant ...Read More
India – death sentence for men convicted of gang-rape
On September 13 a court in New Delhi sentenced to death four men convicted ...Read More
Events
8th ICDP meeting in Brussels: Commissioners meet EU and Belgium government
The International Commission against the Death Penalty held the 8th....Read More
Celebrating World Day Against the Death Penalty, 10 October: Parliamentarians, a critical force in promoting the abolition of the death penalty
Panel discussion: Parliamentarians, a critical force in promoting the abolition....Read More
ICDP delegation participates in the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting 2013, Warsaw, Poland
An ICDP delegation was invited to participate by the OSCE....Read More
China: ICDP hosts meeting on the death penalty
In July 2013 ICDP Commissioner Ruth Dreifuss met with a....Read More
Roundtable “Belarus – Religion and Death Penalty”, Minsk, 21 June 2013
The Council of Europe organised a roundtable on 'Belarus -....Read More
