Submission on the death penalty to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, April-May 2015

This joint submission by FIACAT, FIDH and PRI as members of the World Coalition against the Death Penalty was submitted to the 56th Ordinary Session of the African Commission in Banjul in April 2015. It calls on the Commission to adopt an Additional Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the abolition of the death penalty in order to help mobilise progress towards abolition.