World Day

Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty

Press release on the World Day against Death Penalty

2007/10/09

In June 2001, 52 international NGOs gathered in Strasbourg for the first World Congress Against the Death Penalty that adopted a resolution urging all countries to establish a society respecting life and without the death penalty. WCADP was born out of this campaign on May 13, 2002. People began to observe the World Day against Death Penalty on October 10.

Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP) held a press conference on the eve of the World Day against Death Penalty, observed on October 10 of each year, urging Taiwanese government to actively move towards abolition of the death penalty to demonstrate its commitment to join the rest of the world.  

A worldwide campaign

European Union Council of Ministers met in June 16~18, 2007, and decided to include the issue of moratorium of the death penalty in the agenda of the 62nd UN General Assembly (UNGA). The proposal will be discussed at UNGA’s third (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) Committee starting October 8, 2007.

World Day Against the Death Penalty, 10 October 2006

The death penalty is a failure of justice

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Forun–Asia

(Hong Kong, 10 July 2006) A new Asian network against the death penalty was formed after a group of anti-death penalty activists met in Hong Kong recently to discuss work against the death penalty. This network is called the Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (ADEPAN) and will be officially launched on the World Day Against Death Penalty, 10 October, somewhere in Asia this year.