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Yemen Issues Death Sentence Against Woman Human Rights Defender Al-Arwali, the 35-year-old head of the Al-Habitat Organisation for Human Rights Development, was arrested while she was traveling from Sana’a, to…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said Wednesday, February 27, that the death penalty has no place in the twenty-first century. He was addressing the seventh World Congress against the Death Penalty,…
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Thursday condemned the continued implementation of the death penalty against juvenile offenders in Iran. He stressed that the execution…
On the World Day Against the Death Penalty (October 10), the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) repeated its call for all States to ratify the…
Leading human rights organization Amnesty International reports that countries are increasingly resorting to death penalty in a flawed attempt to combat terrorism-related crimes. According to Amnesty, at least 20 countries…
Human rights organization Amnesty International reports that a dramatic global rise in the number of executions recorded in 2015 saw more people put to death than at any point in…