18/06/2026
At the United Nations Human Rights Council, FIACAT, together with the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, ECPM, IRCT, REDRESS, Omega Research Foundation, OMCT, and ACAT Belgium, ACAT Canada, ACAT France and ACAT Liberia, welcomed the report of Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary ex*****ons, Morris Tidball-Binz, affirming that the death penalty is always incompatible with the absolute prohibition of torture and the protection of human dignity, and that the only reliable means of ensuring compliance with these obligations is abolition.
From arrest to ex*****on, capital punishment inflicts inherent and cumulative suffering on those sentenced and their families. Abolition remains the only way to fully comply with international human rights obligations.
We also remain concerned by setbacks in Israel, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad, Niger and Burkina Faso, where progress towards abolition has been reversed.
Link to the report : https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/62/37