DEATH PENALTY: HANDS OFF CAIN, THE WORLD DAY AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY FOR AFRICA
Hands Off Cain devotes the World Day against the Death Penalty to Africa.
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Hands Off Cain devotes the World Day against the Death Penalty to Africa.
"The most significant facts concerning the death penalty in recent years have come from Africa, with the abolition in Rwanda, Burundi, Gabon, Togo and Benin. In particular with regard to the first two countries, the end of the death penalty has had an extraordinary symbolic value, as well as political and legal, these countries being the most tragic representants of the eternal story of Cain and Abel through a perpetual chain of revenge, "said Sergio D'Elia, Secretary of Hands Off Cain.
"Africa - continued D'Elia - is the continent with the largest number of de facto abolitionist countries who may vote in favor of the next UN Resolution for a universal moratorium on executions and abolish the death penalty" .
For this reason, and in view of the missions that Hands off Cain with the Nonviolent Radical Party will carry out next month in African countries (Niger, Equatorial Guinea, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Comoros and Tanzania) to ask for support to the UN Resolution, Hands Off Cain will present, with the Minister of Justice of Benin Valentin Djenontin-Agossou and MEP Louis Michel, the international version of its 2014 Report on the death penalty in the world at the European Parliament (h. 11 Room P.B5001).
"The most significant facts concerning the death penalty in recent years have come from Africa, with the abolition in Rwanda, Burundi, Gabon, Togo and Benin. In particular with regard to the first two countries, the end of the death penalty has had an extraordinary symbolic value, as well as political and legal, these countries being the most tragic representants of the eternal story of Cain and Abel through a perpetual chain of revenge, "said Sergio D'Elia, Secretary of Hands Off Cain.
"Africa - continued D'Elia - is the continent with the largest number of de facto abolitionist countries who may vote in favor of the next UN Resolution for a universal moratorium on executions and abolish the death penalty" .
For this reason, and in view of the missions that Hands off Cain with the Nonviolent Radical Party will carry out next month in African countries (Niger, Equatorial Guinea, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Comoros and Tanzania) to ask for support to the UN Resolution, Hands Off Cain will present, with the Minister of Justice of Benin Valentin Djenontin-Agossou and MEP Louis Michel, the international version of its 2014 Report on the death penalty in the world at the European Parliament (h. 11 Room P.B5001).
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