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5th Regional Congress on the Death Penalty : Heading for East Asia

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23th World Day Against the Death Penalty : A Look Back on ECPM and Partners’ Actions
21 October 2025
Every year on 10 October, World Day Against the Death Penalty is observed. The theme for this 23rd edition was ‘The death penalty protects no one’, highlighting the misconception that capital punishment makes communities and individuals safer. Across the world, the abolitionist community has made its voice heard through many…
Affiche graphique gagnante de l'édition 2022-2023 de "Dessine-moi l'abolition" par Emeline V.
Culture, Event
7th Edition of the Competition « Draw Me the Abolition » : Registration is Now Open !
10 October 2025
Every three years, the international graphic poster competition « Draw me the abolition » invites young people from 12 to 25 from all over the world to put their creativity to work in the fight against the death penalty by creating a graphic poster. On the 23rd World Day Against…
Culture, Event, In pictures
25 Years of ECPM: An Evening of Memory and Commitment
06 October 2025
On October 3rd, the Théâtre de la Concorde in Paris hosted a milestone event in ECPM’s history: the celebration of the association’s 25th anniversary, which brought together more than 300 people.
Événement, In pictures
Fête de l’Humanité 2025: A Weekend of Encounters and Mobilization
17 September 2025
As every year, the Fête de l’Humanité was a key moment for dialogue, awareness-raising, and advancing the abolitionist cause. Over two days, the ECPM team hosted a stand at the heart of the Village du Monde, alongside thousands of visitors drawn by music, debates, and activism.
Portrait de Raphaël Chenuil-Hazan et Robert Badinter
Testimony
Robert Badinter : ECPM’s unwavering support
09 September 2025
‘ECPM continues Robert's fight for universal abolition.’ A renowned lawyer and fervent abolitionist, Robert Badinter was behind the law abolishing the death penalty in France in 1981. Ahead of his induction into the Panthéon on 9 October, Raphaël Chenuil-Hazan, Executive Director of ECPM, looks back on his special relationship with…
Partenaires et staff ECPM en 2025
Event, In pictures
ECPM Partners Week : Reinforced Links in the Fight Against the Death Penalty
11 July 2025
From 23 to 29 June 2025, ECPM welcomed 15 representatives from 9 partner organisations to Paris for a week of training and networking. Highlights of the week included thematic workshops, the Annual General Meetings of ECPM and of the Plateforme des Droits de l’Homme (PDH), and the Paris Pride. Take…
Pancarte "Nos vies valent plus que leur homophobie" - Pride 2025
Event, In pictures
Pride 2025 : ECPM Staunchly Supported the LGBTQIA+ Rights
07 July 2025
On Saturday 28, June, Paris Pride occured with around 500 000 participants. Once again, ECPM was part of the parade. Nowadays international political context offers more and more space to human rights repression and ECPM was present to denounce the criminilisation of homosexuality, still subject to the death penalty in…
Miniature carte Iran
Tribune / Editorial
Death Penalty, an Appalling Escalation : ECPM Warns of Worsening Death Penalty Situation in Iran
04 July 2025
While French nationals Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris have just been informed of the charges against them, which carry the death penalty, the Iranian authorities this week in Geneva rejected all recommendations calling on the State to put an end to executions. At the beginning of July, the figures for…
Les participant.es du workshop "Plaidoyer et sensibilisation pour l'abolition de la peine de mort" avec Saman Yasin
Event, In pictures
Death Is Not Justice : 3rd ‘Advocacy and Awareness-raising for the Abolition of the Death Penalty’ Workshop in Strasbourg
30 June 2025
ECPM, the Council of Europe (COE) and the German Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, with financial support from the COE, the permanent representations of France and Switzerland and the AFD, and the co-financing of OFAJ, organised the ‘Advocacy and awareness-raising for the abolition of the death penalty’ workshop in…
Session de formation pour les avocat·es sur la peine de mort en Tunisie
Événement
Tunisia : Training and Discussion Workshop On The Death Penalty And The Role Of Lawyers
18 June 2025
On 24 and 25 April 2025, the Tunisian Coalition Against the Death Penalty (CTCPM) and ECPM organised a training session for lawyers on the death penalty as part of their joint project ‘Pathways to Abolition: Supporting Progress Towards the Abolition of the Death Penalty’.
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