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- OCTOBER 15, 2008United NationsDEATH PENALTY
UN URGED TO END EXECUTIONS OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS
as UN member states begin the debate on the rights of the child...
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2008United NationsDEATH PENALTY
DEATH PENALTY: BAN KI-MOON'S REPORT RELEASED
Ban Ki-Moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations, released a report on the death penalty. It was one of the provisions of the Resolution on the moratorium on capital punishment, approved by the General Assembly in December 2007, asking the Secreta
- MARCH 7, 2008United StatesDEATH PENALTY
UN. PANEL CALLS FOR US DEATH PENALTY MORATORIUM
the United States should impose a death penalty moratorium and stop sentencing
- DECEMBER 18, 2007ItalyDEATH PENALTY
UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES RESOLUTION CALLING FOR DEATH PENALTY MORATORIUM
The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for a moratorium on the death penalty with a view to abolishing capital punishment. The vote in the 192-member world body was 104-54 with 29 abstentions.
- NOVEMBER 14, 2007United NationsDEATH PENALTY
UN: DEATH PENALTY MORATORIUM MEETS STRONG OPPOSITION
a proposal to ultimately abolish the death penalty was delayed by scores of countries that oppose the measure and accused the sponsors of attempting to interfere with the laws of sovereign states.
- NOVEMBER 1, 2007United NationsDEATH PENALTY
RESOLUTION ON A MORATORIUM ON THE DEATH PENALTY
the UN General Assembly received a draft resolution signed by 72 countries calling for a global moratorium on the death penalty.
- FEBRUARY 28, 2007United NationsDEATH PENALTY
GLOBAL INTEREST IN DEATH PENALTY REVIEW; UN CITES SADDAM'S EXECUTION
Louise Arbour, the UN high commissioner for human rights...
- JANUARY 24, 2007United NationsDEATH PENALTY
UN. BAN SAYS BACKS TREND TO PHASE OUT DEATH PENALTY
New U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he backed an international trend to phase out the death penalty. "Life is very precious and every human being has a right to live with dignity and life of human beings must be respected and protected," Ban said
- JANUARY 11, 2007United NationsDEATH PENALTY
UN. BAN KI-MOON ENCOURAGES TO PHASE OUT DEATH PENALTY
“I believe that life is precious and must be protected and respected, and that all human beings have the right to live in dignity”, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stated at a press conference in New York.
- JULY 28, 2006United StatesDEATH PENALTY
UNITED NATIONS. US SHOULD ADOPT DEATH SENTENCE MORATORIUM, UNHRC
the US should adopt a moratorium on death sentences, the UN Human Rights Committee said, noting that capital punishment appears to be disproportionately imposed on minority groups and poor people.
- MAY 11, 2006United NationsDEATH PENALTY
UNITED NATIONS. UN ELECTS 47 NATIONS TO NEW HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
six nations with poor human rights records are among those that have been elected to a new Human Rights Council at the United Nations, although notorious violators that had belonged to the predecessor Human Rights Commission did not succeed in winning pla
- JULY 14, 2005United NationsDEATH PENALTY
UNITED NATIONS. COUNTRIES RETAINING DEATH PENALTY FAIL TO GIVE DETAILS OF EXECUTIONS, UN SAYS
despite calls to countries retaining capital punishment to be transparent about their executions, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan's latest report on the use of the death penalty worldwide laments the absence of a full accounting for death sent