Since 1976, more than 85 nations have abolished the death penalty, with human rights organisation Amnesty International stating that it breaches human rights laws. In January, Taiwan carried out ...

Legal victories alone are not enough, true transformation requires ongoing commitment from communities, institutions, and ...

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order promoting the death penalty as an “essential ... the inherent dignity of all human beings, even those who have ...

Public opinion in Congolese society remains divided over these death sentences. The National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO), which has consistently opposed the death penalty, maintains its ...

Louisiana will resume death penalty executions using nitrogen gas suffocation as a method of execution. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill support ...

Peter Tatchell has urged World Cup 2034 hosts Saudi Arabia to guarantee the safety, dignity, and rights of LGBTQ+ players, officials, & fans ...

Hiraoka: The death penalty is, needless to say, about taking human lives. The former justice minister quipped about it to provoke laughter from the audience. I was taken aback by the sheer ...

REFLECTING A divergence in decision-making on death penalty at different levels in the judiciary, the Supreme Court — for the second consecutive year — did not confirm a single death sentence in 2024 ...

Human Rights Watch reacts to the recent vandalisation of Bangladesh's founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's house in Dhaka ...

Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop" at the federal level, except for those guilty of terrorism and mass murder motivated by hate, the White House said. Biden is commuting the death ...

5:07 p.m. Feb. 20, 2025: This story was updated with new information. Texas has scheduled its fifth execution of 2025, and its another North Texas case. Matthew Lee Johnson, 49, is scheduled to be ...

The Economic Justice and Rights Division works to build just economies based on respect for human rights. We investigate how the global economic system both drives inequality that undermines human ...