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- Death penalty | OHCHRThe use of the death penalty is not consistent with the right to life and the right to live free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. There is growing consensus for universal abolition of the death penalty. Some 170 States have abolished or introduced a moratorium on the death penalty either in law or in practice.
- Main Navigation OHCHR - UN Human Rights OfficeIn Pakistan, there have been calls for public hanging and castration, and across many other countries there have been calls for the death penalty. “The main argument being made for the death penalty is for it to deter rape – but in fact there is no evidence that the death penalty deters crime more than other forms of punishment.
- UN experts call for universal abolition of the death penaltyGENEVA (9 October 2023) – The UN Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Morris Tidball-Binz, and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Alice Jill Edwards, reiterated their call for the complete abolition of the death penalty. Ahead of the 21st World Day Against the Death Penalty, they issued the ...
- TY ends and Perspectives - UN Human Rights Office• Usha Ramanathan, The death penalty in India: Down a slippery slope p.150 • Alice Mogwe, The death penalty in Botswana: Barriers to equal justice p.170 • Innocent Maja,The death penalty in Zimbabwe: Legal ambiguitites p.180 Chapter 4 – Values p.184 • Sister Helen Prejean, Death penalty: victims’ perspective p.187
- Moving away from the death penalty: Arguments, Trends and PerspectivesTags. Death penalty. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is the leading United Nations entity in the field of human rights, with a unique mandate to promote and protect all human rights for all people. Latest. Feature Stories. Media Center. Meetings & Events. Resources. Databases.
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