Earlier this month, the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, reiterated its call for the abolition of the death sentence. The ...

The prominence of Iranian women and girls in the ongoing struggle for human rights has been met with fierce crackdowns by the ...

Every year, on 10 October, actors around the world come together to raise awareness around the death penalty and to call for its abolition in every country. This year, the International Federation for ...

(MENAFN- Swissinfo) Switzerland has made it a stated goal to abolish the death penalty worldwide. Its defenders, on the other hand, insist on national Sovereignty and wish to distance themselves ...

The UN calls for revoking death penalty worldwide, but only a few countries have revoked it, he added. This is their commitment and they will speak about this, but no government of Bangladesh in ...

Catholic Mobilizing Network, a group that advocates for the abolition of capital punishment in line with Catholic teaching, marked the World Day Against the Death Penalty Oct. 10 in ... moral as well ...

Pakistan's use of the death penalty is among the harshest in the world, accounting for 26 per cent of the global death row population, according to data released by a non-profit group on Thursday.

After a protest against the country’s record cost-of-living crisis, 29 children in Nigeria are facing the death penalty. Four ...

For the death penalty, one does not simply require good cops, detectives, and prosecutors, but they must, truly, be world-class. We are nowhere close to having that. And, perhaps most importantly ...

Mr Ozekhome's perspective reflects years of advocacy ... with support from Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide AllAfrica publishes around 500 reports a day from more than 100 news ...

Lucia Masuka, head of Amnesty in Zimbabwe, said most countries in the world are moving away from the death penalty, and she urged African countries to follow suit. "It's time for all countries to ...