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- APRIL 24, 2003United NationsDEATH PENALTY
A resolution for a moratorium on capital executions...
A resolution for a moratorium on capital executions and the abolition of the death penalty was approved, for the seventh consecutive year, at the UN Commission on Human Rights with 24 votes in favour, 10 abstentions and 18 votes against
- APRIL 17, 2003United NationsDEATH PENALTY
The UN Human Rights commission rejected an amendment...
The UN Human Rights commission rejected an amendment criticizing a dissident crackdown by Cuba, but instead approved a milder resolution calling for a UN rights monitor to visit the island
- APRIL 17, 2003United NationsDEATH PENALTY
Leroy Orange, exonerated from Illinois' death row,...
Leroy Orange, exonerated from Illinois' death row, intervened at the UN Commission on Human Rights on behalf of the Transational Radical Party
- APRIL 16, 2003United NationsDEATH PENALTY
A briefing organised by Hands Off Cain for a moratorium...
A briefing organised by Hands Off Cain for a moratorium on capital executions took place at the UN buildings in Geneva
- APRIL 10, 2003United NationsDEATH PENALTY
In occasion of the UNCHR Antoine Madelin, of International...
In occasion of the UNCHR Antoine Madelin, of International Federation of Human Rights Leagues, said that corporal punishments and discrimination against women persisted in Iran
- APRIL 8, 2003United NationsDEATH PENALTY
Twenty-two European countries submitted a proposed...
Twenty-two European countries submitted a proposed resolution to the UN Human Rights Commission accusing Russia of grave rights violations in the breakaway republic of Chechnya
- APRIL 2, 2003United NationsDEATH PENALTY
In occasion of the UN Commission on Human Rights held...
In occasion of the UN Commission on Human Rights held in Geneva, Iulia Antoanella Motoc, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), said that despite positive developments, the situation in the DRC r
- MARCH 24, 2003United NationsDEATH PENALTY
French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin made...
French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin made a call at the UN Human Rights Commission for the universal ratification of the statute of the International Criminal Court and for the abolition of the death penalty
- MARCH 20, 2003United NationsDEATH PENALTY
At the UN Commission on Human Rights convening in Geneva...
At the UN Commission on Human Rights convening in Geneva Bulgaria expressed its firm conviction that the abolition of the death penalty represented a milestone in the progressive evolution of universal human rights standards
- MARCH 5, 2003United NationsDEATH PENALTY
A United Nations human rights expert called on Afghanistan...
A United Nations human rights expert called on Afghanistan to suspend the death penalty and stop executions because the country's judicial system was not up to international standards, according to a report released by the UN
- FEBRUARY 28, 2003United NationsDEATH PENALTY
Jamaica has too many "questionable police shootings"...
Jamaica has too many "questionable police shootings" and the government of the northern Caribbean island is doing too little to punish the officers involved, said Asma Jahangir, UN special rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions
- FEBRUARY 26, 2003United NationsDEATH PENALTY
Thailand brushed off United Nations criticism of its...
Thailand brushed off United Nations criticism of its bloody war on drugs, saying dealers and traffickers ran the risk of violent death