{"id":205,"date":"2009-06-17T06:03:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T06:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/achrs.org\/english\/2009\/06\/17\/the-arab-coalition-took-part-in-the-world-coalition-agaist-the-death-penalty-general-assembly\/"},"modified":"2009-06-17T06:03:18","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T06:03:18","slug":"the-arab-coalition-took-part-in-the-world-coalition-agaist-the-death-penalty-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/achrs.org\/english\/2009\/06\/17\/the-arab-coalition-took-part-in-the-world-coalition-agaist-the-death-penalty-general-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arab Coalition took part in the World Coalition agaist the Death Penalty General Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; margin-left: 3.75pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify\"> <span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; language: EN\">The Arab Coalition Against the Death Penalty, created in 2007 with the Executive Secretariat at ACHRS,<span>&nbsp; <\/span>participated in the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty General Assembly in Rome on the 13th and 14th of June.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; margin-left: 3.75pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify\"> <span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; language: EN\">This was&nbsp;an occasion to further discussion among the members of the coalition on many issues.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; margin-left: 3.75pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify\"> <span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; language: EN\">The General Assembly unanimously approved the Financial and the Activity Reports for 2008.&nbsp;Full agreement was also reached on the Orientation Report, which sets the next actions&nbsp;to be undertaken by&nbsp;the World Coalition. The upcoming initiatives will focus on three major campaigns: <\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; margin-left: 18pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: -18pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; direction: ltr; font-family: Symbol; unicode-bidi: embed\">&middot;<\/span><span style=\"width: 13.5pt\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: Arial\">&middot;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; language: EN\">&quot;Teaching abolition&quot;, addressed to 14 -18 years old students and students in law school with a strong link to the 20<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; language: EN\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; language: EN\"> anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child,&nbsp;which prohibits juvenile executions.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; margin-left: 18pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: -18pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; direction: ltr; font-family: Symbol; unicode-bidi: embed\">&middot;<\/span><span style=\"width: 13.5pt\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: Arial\">&middot;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; language: EN\">Towards the universal ratification of the Optional Second Protocol to the&nbsp;ICCPR, that is currently the only international legal instrument to prohibit the death penalty.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; margin-left: 18pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: -18pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; direction: ltr; font-family: Symbol; unicode-bidi: embed\">&middot;<\/span><span style=\"width: 13.5pt\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: Arial\">&middot;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; language: EN\">Towards the Universal Moratorium on Executions , supporting the UN General Assembly Resolution voted on December 2007 and on December 2008.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; direction: ltr; text-indent: -18pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; tab-stops: .25in\"> <span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; language: EN\">The General Assembly also discussed the 4<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; language: EN\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; language: EN\"> World Congress Against the Death Penalty, that will be held in Geneva&nbsp;from the 24th-26th of February 2010. Ensemble Contre la Peine de Mort drafted a provisional program that includes plenary sessions, practical workshops for activists, meetings with victims, and several other&nbsp;events.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; direction: ltr; text-indent: -18pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; tab-stops: .25in\"> <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; language: EN\">The Arab Coalition Against the Death Penalty&nbsp;was&nbsp;elected, along with 20 other organizations, to be part of the Steering Committee of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; direction: ltr; text-indent: -18pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; tab-stops: .25in\"> <span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; language: EN\">The first day of Assembly ended with a meeting at the presence of the press and the media with Joaquin Jose, a former&nbsp;priosner on&nbsp;death row in the state of Florida.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; direction: ltr; text-indent: -18pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; tab-stops: .25in\"> <span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; language: EN\">On the&nbsp;14th of&nbsp;June the Steering Committee meeting took place; on this occasion the members tackled more specific issues regarding membership, fundraising and the&nbsp;state of the campaigns.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; tab-stops: .25in\"> <span style=\"font-family: Arial; language: EN\">These international assemblies are always a&nbsp;fruitful and inspiring opportunity to enhance the organizations&#8217; commitment, to share ideas with partners and to jointly set the course of activities.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"direction: ltr; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; unicode-bidi: embed; language: AR-SA\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Arab Coalition Against the Death Penalty, created in 2007 with the Executive Secretariat at ACHRS,&nbsp; participated in the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty General Assembly in Rome on the 13th and 14th of June. 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