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An activist holds anti-death penalty signs outside the US Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.
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Human Rights Council

United Nations: latest report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary execution deems the death penalty to be a form of torture and calls for the worldwide abolition of this practice

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Amnesty International: published report Death Sentences and Executions 2025

A Palestinian searches through the rubble of his home destroyed by Israeli strikes in Khuza'a, southern Gaza Strip.
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death penalty

Italy expresses deep concern over the bill on the death penalty approved by the Israeli parliament

Amnesty Interational, Death sentences and executions in 2024
death penalty

Amnesty International: new report highlights the highest number of executions in 2024 since 2015

An activist holds anti-death penalty signs outside the US Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.
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human rights

United Nations: Volker Türk voices regret over first ever execution by nitrogen suffocation

A woman in a hijab walks through the streets of Tehran, the Iranian capital.
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human rights

United Nations: latest report on Iran shows that the human rights situation has markedly deteriorated

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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

OHCHR welcomes progress made in Zambia and Central African Republic to abolish the capital punishment

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human rights

Amnesty International Global Report: Death sentences and executions 2021

A woman with handcuff in a dark room of a prison
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human rights

UN experts urge the government of Singapore immediate end capital punishment

human rights protection

Death penalty should be abolished: Mass executions in Saudi Arabia and Egypt

human rights

Council of Europe 2020 North-South Prize Award Ceremony: focus on right to life and climate change

A woman with handcuff in a dark room of a prison
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human rights

Amnesty International Report on Death Sentence and Execution

Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, on the occasion of her first opening statement at the Human Rights Council
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human rights

Michelle Bachelet statement on the death penalty and torture for sexual crimes

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NGOs / associations

5th World Congress against the Death Penalty - Madrid, 12-15 June 2013

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human rights

10 December 2012: live reporting on Twitter of the meeting with the International Commission against Death Penalty on #hrdunipd