21-12-2006
The 3d World Congress against the Death Penalty will take place in Paris from 1 to 3 February 2007. After Strasbourg and Montréal, Paris shall welcome hundreds of abolitionists from all over the world: citizens, politicos, actors of civilian society, legal specialists…
Paris 2007 will specifically concentrate on the Maghreb and the Middle East so as to forward the cause of abolition in an area where no country has as yet dispensed with capital punishment. We hope to see an abolitionist Arab world emerge!
ECPM, with its foremost partner the World Coalition against the Death Penalty, has entrusted Emmanuel Decaux, Professor of international public law at Paris II University and independent expert at the UN Subcommittee on human Rights, together with Eric Prokosch, former Director of the death penalty programme in the international secretariat of Amnesty International, with the chairmanship of the scientific Committee of the Congress and with programme development for the Congress.
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Let’s make Paris the World Capital of Abolition! by Michel Taube.
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EMMANUEL DECAUX : “Abolition does not seem out of reach”
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ERIC PROKOSCH : “I will do whatever I can to help ensure worldwide abolition of the death penalty success”
