Loading...








PGA’s vision is to contribute to the creation of a Rules-Based International Order for a more equitable, safe, sustainable and democratic world.

PGA and APPG on the Abolition of the Death Penalty

PGA members are already active on death penalty issues. For example a member in Uganda recently introduced a bill to the Ugandan Parliament to abolish the mandatory use of the death penalty.
PGA members are already active on death penalty issues. For example a member in Uganda recently introduced a bill to the Ugandan Parliament to abolish the mandatory use of the death penalty.

Following an Executive Committee decision in July 2013 Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA), with the encouragement of the UK All-Party Group on the Abolition of the Death Penalty has started preparations towards the creation of the global parliamentary platform for abolition.

On the 15th October, Officers of the All-Party Group, Baroness Stern, Lord Dubs and Mark Pritchard MP (Executive Committee member of PGA) met with the outgoing Secretary General of PGA, Shazia Rafi, the Secretary General designate, Dr. David Donat-Cattin and former PGA Board Member Naveed Qamar, MP (Pakistan), in the House of Lords in London, to discuss how to proceed.

It was agreed that funding should be secured in order for the PGA to carry out a dedicated programme of work on abolition. In this, the PGA will work closely with all those already active in the field, NGOS and parliamentarians. PGA members are already active on death penalty issues. For example a member in Uganda recently introduced a bill to the Ugandan Parliament to abolish the mandatory use of the death penalty.

The establishment of a death penalty resource at the PGA will reinforce and focus such activity, however, with a range of services such as the introduction of weekly updates with media resources, informational bulletins, country-specific strategies and action plans, the facilitation of peer to peer networking and the encouragement of multi-party dialogue.

Latest News: ADP CAMPAIGN

Photo by Daniel Gregoire on Unsplash

Democratic Republic of the Congo: High Risk of Resumption of the Death Penalty

It is with profound concern that PGA became aware this morning of the communication of a circular from the Ministry of Justice of the Democratic Republic of the Congo formalizing the decision to lift the moratorium on the death penalty in the country.

Architect: Henry BernardPhoto: Council of Europe, CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Armenia ratifies international treaties aiming at the abolition of the death penalty

The ratification comes 2.5 years after the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (ICCPR-OP2) by the Government of Armenia which took place on 18 March 2021.

21ˢᵗ World Day Against the Death Penalty

21ˢᵗ World Day Against the Death Penalty

Capital punishment constitutes a grave violation of international standards and human rights law, as it inflicts torture and other forms of ill-treatment on death row inmates – the prohibition of which is nevertheless a peremptory norm of international law.