Archive of statements, events and panels
ASG Andrew Gilmour discusses greater transparency needed in use of death penalty, 21 November 2017
Panel on “Transparency and the death penalty”, 10 October 2017
Human Rights Council, Biennial high-level panel discussion on the question of the death penalty - Theme: The death penalty and the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, 1 March 2017
- Concept Note
- Opening Statement by Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Webcast
High-level event on “The Death Penalty and Victims”, 21 September 2016
UNGASS side event, Effective drugs policies without the death penalty, 18 April 2016
Meeting on “moratorium on the death penalty with a view to its future abolition in Malawi”, 12 November 2015
OHCHR/African Union Global Panel: “Moving away from the death penalty – Lessons from the African experience”, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 11 November 2015
Book launch: Moving away from the Death Penalty, November 2015, New York
- Book Launch event with the UN Secretary General: Moving away from the Death Penalty
- Book launch event (1H)
- Kirk Bloodsworth on the death penalty
- ASG Press conference
OHCHR Global Panel: Moving Away from the Death Penalty, 29 September 2015
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Side Event, Human Rights Council: Moving away from the Death Penalty: Protection of the rights of persons facing death penalty abroad, including migrants, 17 June 2015
Moving Away From the Death Penalty: Arguments, Trends and Perspectives - 13th UN Crime Congress (Doha, 2015), Side event, 14 April 2015
Human Rights Council, Biennial high-level panel discussion, 4 March 2015
Statement on World Day Against the Death Penalty, 8 October 2014
High-level event of the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York Moving Away from the Death Penalty: National Leadership, 25 September 2014
Event on Best Practices and Challenges in Implementing a Moratorium on the Death Penalty, 2 July 2014
OHCHR Global Panel - Moving Away from the Death Penalty – Discrimination against marginalised groups, 24 April 2014
Human Rights Council Panel Discussion, 5 March 2014
- Ban Ki-moon, Panel Discussion on the question of the death penalty - 9th Meeting, 25th Regular Session Human Rights Council
- Webcast
Human Rights Council Panel discussion on human rights of children of parents sentenced to the death penalty or executed, 11 September 2013
OHCHR Global Panel: Moving away from the death penalty – Wrongful Convictions, 28 June 2013
OHCHR Global Panel: Moving away from the death penalty – Lessons from national experiences, 3 July 2012
- Programme
- Ban Ki-moon - Global panel on 'Moving away from the death penalty –– Lessons from national experiences
- (Part 1) Global panel on 'Moving away from the death penalty –– Lessons from national experiences'
- (Part 2) Global panel on 'Moving away from the death penalty –– Lessons from national experiences'