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What we have done

 
  • Parliamentary initiatives and missions in favour of the moratorium

  • International Conferences

  • A UN moratorium on executions

  • Easter and Christmas Marches to St. Peter's

  • Cases of condemned prisoners that have given impetus to the abolitionist campaign

  • Informative campaigns to promote the moratorium on executions


Urgent actions

APPEAL OF REPRIEVE, IHR AND HOC TO THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT NOT TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO THE DEATH PENALTY IN IRAN

02 January 2021

The Organizations are deeply concerned by the Italian Government’s recent pledge to provide counter-narcotics support to the Government of Iran given the high risk that this support will result in death sentences being handed down to alleged drug offenders.

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Documents

  •   UN RESOLUTION 2020
  •  FACES OF OPPRESSION
  •   GENERAL MOTION OF THE VIII CONGRESS OF HANDS OFF CAIN
  •   IS PUBLIC OPINION A JUSTIFIABLE REASON NOT TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY? A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SURVEYS OF EIGHT COUNTRIES
  •  IRAN - 10 executions in Iran in 2021
  •   The death penalty on Women
  •   DOSSIER ON DEATH PENALTY AND HOMOSEXUALITY
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news

08 January 2021

USA - Mississippi. Eddie Lee Howard Exonerated From Death Row

16 January 2021

BELARUS: MAN RE-SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER RETRIAL

16 January 2021

USA Dustin Higgs was executed at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana

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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.