CAPACITY BUILDING
“ Strengthening communication… to work together to protect the human rights of those facing the death penalty.”
As well as representing individuals at risk of execution, the DPP has an ongoing commitment to empower local lawyers through training, seminars and workshops. By maintaining dialogue with judiciaries, NGOs and governments, we aim to strengthen communication between organisations and ultimately enable them to work effectively together to protect human rights.
Seminars, lectures and events
MOVING THE DEBATE FORWARD ON THE DEATH PENALTY IN CHINA (BEIJING 2007; GUANGZHOU 2009) Working with the Great Britain China Centre, we held three workshops focusing on developments towards global abolition of the death penalty, international human rights standards and sentencing in death penalty cases. The workshops were attended by judges of the Supreme People’s Court in Beijing and by provincial judges who have the discretion to impose the death penalty. These workshops have contributed to the recent judicial reforms, which have had a direct impact on the reduction in the use of the death penalty in China.
JUDICIAL COLLOQUIUMS IN UGANDA, 2007 AND 2010 In partnership with the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, we held a conference attended by members of the judiciary, including the Chief Justice of Uganda and the President of the Court of Appeal. In the same month, our seminar for prosecution
22 The Death Penalty Project: 2006 – 2011 report
REGIONAL STRATEGY MEETING IN BARBADOS, 2010 In September 2010, the DPP’s executive directors led a roundtable discussion on the status of the death penalty in the Caribbean. Participants included legal experts from Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Guyana, Grenada, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Jamaica.
Professor Roger Hood delivers the DPP’s first annual lecture at the Inner Temple, London.
and defence lawyers in Kampala was attended by almost 150 lawyers. Both meetings focused on resentencing issues, and copies of the DPP’s publication, A Guide to Sentencing in Capital Cases by Edward Fitzgerald QC and Keir Starmer QC were distributed.
TOWARDS GLOBAL ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY: A LECTURE BY ROGER HOOD, 2010 The DPP’s first Annual Lecture at London’s Inner Temple was delivered by Professor Roger Hood in January 2010. In this he outlined the results of a global survey on the status of the death penalty and concluded that the death penalty would be abolished worldwide ‘in the foreseeable future’.
CRIME, PUNISHMENT AND REHABILITATION: A LECTURE BY WILBERT RIDEAU, 2011 In January 2011, the DPP’s Annual Lecture was delivered by Wilbert Rideau, an ex-death row prisoner. Jailed for 44 years in the US’s most
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