UN Human Rights Council event calls for global abolition of the death penalty
(Geneva) As the United Nations’ Human Rights Council meets in Geneva this week, the International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICDP) held a high-level side event with senior representatives from government, UN and the European Union to assess why and how to abolish capital punishment. The event, held at the Palais des Nations yesterday (25 February), called on the few remaining executing nations to immediately suspend capital punishment as a first step towards full abolition. Members of ICDP –…