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Our Autumn Death Penalty Training is this Friday! Sabrina Butler-Smith will be joining us virtually on the first evening of the training as our keynote speaker. A death row exoneree, Sabrina will share her powerful and inspiring story.

Book here: www.amicus-alj.org/what-we-do/t...

And @dralicestorey.bsky.social gave a wonderful session with Claire Butler @amicusalj.bsky.social training 👏😀

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It’s a full house in person and on Zoom today at Amicus training for @jonyorke.bsky.social’s fantastic talk on his work on the death penalty in the US 👏

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We're excited to announce that Margot Ravenscroft and Professor Jon Yorke will be guest speakers at Amnesty International UK's evening talk this weekend!

Register now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/world-day-...

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4th and last day of the Pre-sessions 50!

In Today’s sessions, speakers will address the human rights situation of #Croatia, #Bulgaria, and #Belarus. Follow us on twitter with #PS50 for live updates!

#UniversalPeriodicReview #HumanRights #PS50

#PS50 @chreaamalawi Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice and Assistance spoke on #torture, #detention and #arbitraryArrests. They recommended #Malawi to establish an independent NPM, allocate resources to improve prison conditions, and guarantee fair trials for detainees

#PS50 Aman Against Discrimination denounced racial discrimination in #Libya. They urged Libya to officially recognize cultural & linguistic minorities, to ensure universal access to education and to ease nationality acquisition procedures for stateless people.

During #PS50 CHRD talked about #HRDs, #CivilSociety, #corruption & #ClimateChange. They called on #Mongolia to support anticorruption initiatives of CSOs, to provide insurance to eliminate harms caused by natural disasters, and to encourage human rights trainings.

In a new article for the Journal of Human Rights Practice, DPRU Director Professor Carolyn Hoyle and the Death Penalty Project's Parvais Jabbar reflect on the collaborative process leading up to Zimbabwe's abolition of the death penalty in December 2024:

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At the U.S. UPR pre-session 🇺🇳 @norwayingeneva.norway.no raised the important issue of the federal death penalty. Our U.S. Stakeholder report on the DP can be downloaded here bcuassets.blob.core.windows.net/docs/usa-upr... @norwaymfa.government.no @dpruoxford.bsky.social

Joint Statement: Concerns Over USA's Engagement with the UN UPR CONCERNS OVER USA’S ENGAGEMENT WITH THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL’S UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW Joint Statement of the UPR Project at BCU and UPR Academic Network regarding the United States of America’s ...

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At the USA’s UPR Pre-session 🇺🇳 the UN’s OHCHR advised that the USA will not be engaging with its upcoming Universal Periodic Review due to take place on 7th November 2025. This could have catastrophic consequences for the future of the UPR and we would encourage everyone to sign our Joint Statement⬇️

Themes presented by CSOs in the US’s 🇺🇸UPR pre-session 🇺🇳; increased surveillance structures,

Permanent mission questions - Norway provides a question on the federal death penalty

The Head of OHCHR - stated its disappointment of the US not submitting its UPR National Report.

Themes presented by CSOs in the US’s 🇺🇸UPR pre-session 🇺🇳; the right to food, climate change, poverty, SOGI, access to abortion and reproductive health, racism, immigration and asylum, FGM/C, child marriage, online sexual exploitation, the shrinking space for CSOs, increased internal terror policy

US pre-session is now open. The US gov is a no-show but 6 CSOs are presenting

Room XXV 🇺🇳 is now full for the no-show of the US government for it’s own UPR pre-session @bernardharcourt.bsky.social @dralicestorey.bsky.social @us.theguardian.com

Second up 🇺🇸 UPR pre-session in U.N.🇺🇳 the room is buzzing with discussions of the US government not attending their own session 🙃

We arrived early for the UPR pre-sessions U.N. 🇺🇳
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Jamaica Ambassador states since the 3rd UPR cycle the government has improved services and support for persons with disabilities @uprinfo.bsky.social

First up is the Jamaica 🇯🇲 UPR Pre-session @uprinfo.bsky.social

It’s the 3rd day of the Pre-Sessions 50!

Join us today for sessions that will give us insights on the human rights situation in #Jamaica, #USA, #Andorra, #Panama and #Honduras. Stay tuned on twitter with #PS50!

#UniversalPeriodicReview #HumanRights #PS50

A ☔️ day at 🇺🇳 today. The prospect of the U.S. attending their UPR pre-session also looks bleak @dralicestorey.bsky.social @uprinfo.bsky.social

@dralicestorey.bsky.social and I are at the U.N. today for the US’s pre-session and we’ll post what happens @amnesty.org @hrw.org

Will the United States attend their UPR pre-session this morning at the UN in Geneva? As they did not submit their National Report to the HRC, the prospects look bleak @uprinfo.bsky.social @dralicestorey.bsky.social

Wonderful to meet with our good friends Gianni and Nicoletta @uprinfo.bsky.social in Geneva to discuss the Universal Periodic Review 😀👏 @dralicestorey.bsky.social @dranazir.bsky.social

A Permanent Maid Moratorium: The Death Penalty in The Middle East and Female Migrant Workers From Indonesia While existing research has examined travel bans as a result of the abuse of migrant workers, here they are analysed in relation to capital punishment. Focusing on female migrant workers travelling t...

📢 New article out where we examine bans on female migrant workers from Indonesia travelling abroad in response to executions in the Middle East. Spoiler alert - they are ineffectual & do not signal an abolitionist stance @dpruoxford.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our partners @thedeathpenalty.bsky.social are on this platform, if you’re interested in the #DeathPenalty … and why wouldn’t you be?!

"The death penalty in Kenya is literally a mental torture... The suffering is so severe, waiting for something that isn’t going to happen, that prisoners would demand to be executed."

Read Willis Nandi's blog post published by @dpruoxford.bsky.social: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/death-penalt...

Joint Statement: Concerns Over USA's Engagement with the UN UPR CONCERNS OVER USA’S ENGAGEMENT WITH THE UN UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW Joint Statement of the UPR Project at BCU and UPR Academic Network regarding the United States of America’s Fourth Cycle Universal ...

Sign our Joint Statement to call on the USA to engage with its upcoming UN Universal Periodic Review, which reviews all 193 UN Member States’ human rights record ⬇️

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