Death Penalty has been successfully abolished in Cote d’Ivoire thanks to PGA’s National Group’s supportive action in favor of the two bills adopted by the Government on 15 February 2015, amending the Criminal and the Criminal Procedure Code to repeal the death penalty.

This put an end to 14 years of discrepancy between the Constitution, which had abolished the death penalty in 2000 and the Criminal Code still retaining the death penalty in numerous articles. While Côte d’Ivoire has ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in 1992, it has yet to ratify its Second Optional Protocol aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (ICCPR-OP2).

9-10 April 2018: PGA participated in the Regional Congress against the death penalty, organised by Ensemble contre la peine de mort in Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire).

10 March 2015: Côte d’Ivoire definitely abolished the death penalty as the National Assembly approved two bills adopted by the Government on 15 February 2015 amending the Criminal and the Criminal Procedure Code to repeal the death penalty.