Interview with Commissioner Marta Santos Pais by El Tiempo, a daily newspaper in Colombia, on Alabama executing a man with nitrogen gas for the first time in the US, on 26 January 2024

International Commission against the Death Penalty, René Cassin Human Rights Award The Diplomat, 12 December 2023

Interview with Commissioner Marta Santos Pais by Radio Euskadi, following the René Cassin Human Rights Award ceremony on 11 December 2023.

Opinion piece by President Navi Pillay and Commissioner Marta Santos Pais on the occasion of the World Day against the Death Penalty, published on PassBlue, on 8 October 2023.

Interview with Commissioner Tsakhia Elbegdorj by The Chosun Ilbo during his visit to South Korea on 27 May 2023.

Death Penalty Campaign Gainst Momentum, The Nation Online, 5 November 2022.

Former Mongolia President Lobbies MPs on Death Penalty, The Nation Online, 3 November 2022.

Opposition leader drums up support for abolition of death penalty, Malawi 24, 1 November 2022.

Opinion piece by President Navi Pillay and Minister of Foreign Affairs, EU and Cooperation of Spain José Manuel Albares on the occasion of the World Day against the Death Penalty, published in El País , on 10 October 2022.

Opinion piece by Vice President Ibrahim Najjar on the occasion of the World Day against the Death Penalty, published in L’Orient-Le Jour , on 6 October 2022.

Interview with President Navi Pillay by Agencia EFE after the 17th Meeting of Commissioners on 4 July 2022.

Interview with ICDP President Judge Navi Pillay on receiving the 2020 North-South Prize of the Council of Europe, published in the Spanish newspaper El País on 22 December 2021.

Opinion piece by President Navi Pillay on the occasion of the World Day against the Death Penalty, published in La Vanguardia on 13 October 2021.

Opinion piece by Vice President Ibrahim Najjar on the occasion of the World Day against the Death Penalty, published in L’Orient-Le Jour, on 6 October 2021.

Opinion piece by President Judge Navi Pillay and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and for Ibero-America and the Caribbean Cristina Gallach on “Women and the death penalty: Victims of a cruel and inhumane practice that has no place in the 21st century”, published in the Spanish newspaper El Confidencial on 26 March 2021.

Opinion Piece by ICDP President Judge Navi Pillay, founding President Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Honorary Commissioner José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Commissioner Bill Richardson and Executive Director Asunta Vivo Cavaller on “Las ejecuciones de presos en EEUU como argumento electoral”. The Opinion Piece is published by InfoLibre .

Opinion Piece by ICDP President Judge Navi Pillay, founding President Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Honorary Commissioner José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Commissioner Bill Richardson and Executive Director Asunta Vivo Cavaller on ” Executions of prisoners in the US as an electoral argument”. The Opinion Piece is published by OtherNews .

Opinion piece by ICDP President Judge Navi Pillay, Vice President Ruth Dreifuss, Professor and Commissioner Ivan Simonovic, Permanent Representative of Croatia to the UN, and former UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, and Dr. Rajiv Narayan, Director of Policy at the Commission on the UN Resolution on Moratorium on the use of the death penalty adopted on 16 December 2020. The Opinion Piece is published by PassBlue magazine, which independently covers the UN, with the analysis of the vote.

Opinion Piece by ICDP President Judge Navi Pillay and Founding President Federico Mayor Zaragoza on occasion of the Human Rights Day 2020 published in the Politica Exterior magazine.

Article published in the newspaper EL PAIS on “Abolir la pena capital: asignatura pendiente en 90 países”.

Articulo en eldiario.es firmado por la Presidenta Navi Pillay, Vice Presidenta Ruth Dreifuss, Comisarios Michèle Duvivier, Governor Bill Richardson y antiguo Presidente del gobierno Español José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.

Articulo en infolibre.es firmado por la Presidenta Navi Pillay, Vice Presidenta Ruth Dreifuss, Comisarios Michèle Duvivier, Governor Bill Richardson y antiguo Presidente del gobierno Español José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.

Articulo en Le Temps firmado por la Presidenta Navi Pillay, Vice Presidenta Ruth Dreifuss, Comisarios Michèle Duvivier, Governor Bill Richardson y antiguo Presidente del gobierno Español José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.

Opinion Piece by former Governor Bill Richardson and ICDP Commissioner along with other five former USA Governors to Gov Jerry Brown in California to grant clemency to death row prisoners published in the New York Times on 13 December.

Opinion piece by ICDP President Navi Pillay, former ICDP president Federico Mayor Zaragoza and ICDP Commissioner and former President of Mongolia Mr Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj published by OtherNews on 10 October on the occasion of the World Day against the Death Penalty.

Opinion Piece by ICDP Vice-President Ibrahim Najjar, published in L’Orient le Jour on 06/10/2018 on occasion of the World Day against the Death Penalty.

Opinion Piece by ICDP Commissioner Bill Richardson published in the Washington Post on 13 June 2017.

Opinion pieces on occasion of the 15th World Day against the Death Penalty , 10 October L’Orient Le Jour newspaper in Lebanon

Pagina12 (Argentina).

The Hill (Washighton DC, USA).

Online Other news.

Interview to ICDP Commissioner Najjar published in L’Orient le Jour on 9 June 2017.

Opinion Piece on “Mas penas de muerte pero el abolicionismo avanza” by ICDP Honorary Member José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero published in the Spanish newspaper on line El Español on 11 April 2016.

Interview with Commissioner Greve at BBC available only in Russian.

Interview to President Mayor by MarcaEspaña published on 10/10/2016.

Articles by ICDP President Federico Mayor titled “Leadership and the abolition of the death penalty” and by Commissioner and former President of Mongolia Tsakhia Elbegdorj titled “Mongolia honours human life and dignity” in the 2015 UN OHCHR’s publication “Moving Away from the Death Penalty“, a book edited by Commissioner Ivan Šimonović in his capacity as then UN Assistant Secretary General on Human Rights.

Article published in the newspaper L’Orient leJour on « Trois questions à Ibrahim Najjar, fervent militant pour l’abolition de la peine de mort » (21 July 2015).

Article on meeting of ICDP President Mr Mayor with Pope Francis at the Vatican on 20 March 2015 published on Othernews on 24 March 2015.

ICDP President Mr Mayor interviewed in the Spanish TV TVE-Canal 24 Hours, 24 January 2015.

Opinion piece on “Political leadership is key for a world moving away from the death penalty” by ICDP President Mr Federico Mayor, ICDP Members Bill Richardson, Ibrahim Najjar, Ruth Dreifuss, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Louise Arbour, Giuliano Amato, Michele Duvivier Pierre-Louis, Robert Badinter, Asma Jahangir, Ioanna KuÇuradi and Hanne Sophie Greve published on Other news on 10 October 2014.

Video Testimony at the European Parliament by ICDP President Mr Federico Mayor. On 24 September, a video testimony of ICDP President Mr Federico Mayor was screened at a hearing on the death penalty held by the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the European Parliament.

Opinion piece on “A Genève, on fête 25 ans de lutte contre la peine de mort”, by ICDP President Mr Federico Mayor, ICDP Members Ms Ruth Dreifuss and Mr Robert Badinter and by former UN SR for drafting the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, Mr Marc Bossuyt, published on Le Temps on 13 June 2014.

Opinion piece on “Hakamada Iwao and the death penalty system in Japan” by the President of ICDP Mr Mayor and Commissioner Greve published by Other News on 8 May 2014.

Opinion piece on “Foreign Nationals and the Death Penalty” by the President of the ICDP Mr. Mayor and Commissioner Dreifuss, published by International Affairs Forum on the occasion of a side event organized during the high-level segment of the 25th session of the Human Rights Council on the topic of “International Actions with the view to abolishing the death penalty”, 03 March 2014.

Opinion piece on “Foreign Nationals and the Death Penalty” by the President of the ICDP Mr. Mayor and Commissioner Dreifuss, published by Digital Journal on the occasion of a side event organized during the high-level segment of the 25th session of the Human Rights Council on the topic of “International Actions with the view to abolishing the death penalty”, 03 March 2014.

Opinion piece on “Foreign Nationals and the Death Penalty” by the President of the ICDP Mr. Mayor and Commissioner Dreifuss, published by All voices on the occasion of a side event organized during the high-level segment of the 25th session of the Human Rights Council on the topic of “International Actions with the view to abolishing the death penalty”, 03 March 2014.

Opinion Piece by the President of the ICDP Mr. Mayor and Commissioner Richardson, published by Latin Times Newspaper on the case of the imminent execution of Edgar Tamayo Arias, 19 January 2014.

Opinion Piece by the President of the ICDP Mr. Mayor and Commissioner Richardson, published by GlobalPost on the case of the imminent execution of Edgar Tamayo Arias, 19 January 2014.

Opinion Piece by the President of the ICDP Mr. Mayor and Commissioner Richardson, published by Salon Website on the case of the imminent execution of Edgar Tamayo Arias, 19 January 2014.

Opinion Piece by the President of the ICDP Mr. Mayor and Commissioner Richardson, published by UPI Website on the case of the imminent execution of Edgar Tamayo Arias, 19 January 2014.

Opinion Piece by the President of the ICDP Mr. Mayor published by La Libre Belgique Newspaper on the occasion of the recent meeting of the ICDP in Belgium, 03 January 2014.

ICDP Commissioner Ms Greve participated in a live interview with the leading Lebanese TV Channel mtv (Murr Television on 8 June 2014). (english/arabic language).

Opinion Piece by the President of the ICDP Mr. Mayor published by the Diplomatic Aspects Newspaper on the occasion of the recent meeting of the ICDP in Belgium, 20 December 2013.

Opinion Piece by the President of the ICDP Mr. Mayor and Commissioner Amato published in the Il Sole 24 Ore for Human Rights Day, 12 December 2013.

Opinion Piece by the President Mr. Mayor and Commissioner Richardson published in the Global post for Human Rights Day, 10 December 2013.

Opinion Piece by the President Mr. Mayor with Commissioners Hanne Sophie Greve, Ioanna Kucuradi and Ibrahim Najjar published on OtherNews for Human Rights Day, 10 December 2013.Other news

Article by Member of ICDP and Ambassador for UNASUR in Haiti, Rodolfo Mattarollo and Ambassador for the EU in Argentina, Alfonso Diez on the occasion of the World Day against the Death Penalty, 10th October. Buenos Aires Herald

Article by Federico Mayor and Asma Jahangir on Pakistan’s Independence Day, 13 August 2013, published online in DAWN.

Article by Mr Mayor President of ICDP on the 5th World Congress against the Death Penalty, IPS, 28 May 2013.

Statement by Baroness Scotland and Madame Ruth Dreifuss: “Towards abolition of the death penalty”, published in Trinidad & Tobago Guardian, 13 March 2013.

Article by Mr Ibrahim Najaar, Member of ICDP, in L’Orient Le Jour, 8 March 2013.

Article by ICDP President Mr. Federico Mayor. Published online and in print edition in Le Temps newspaper, Geneva 22 February 2013.
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Article by ICDP members Mohammed Bedjaoui, Ruth Dreifuss and Federico Mayor. Published online by the New York Times / International Herald Tribune, 20 February 2013, and in the International Herald Tribune print edition 21 February 2013.

Article by ICDP President Mr. Federico Mayor highlighting the need for action on capital punishment in Indonesia. Published in The Jakarta Post newspaper (Indonesia), 3 February 2013.

Radio interview of ICDP President Federico Mayor in Cuarto Mundo on the occasion of the V World Congress against the Death Penalty, Madrid 13 June 2013 (Spanish language)

Interview with ICDP Mr. Federico Mayor for Amnesty International, 6 February 2013.

Article by the President of the ICDP Mr. Mayor and Commissioner Najjar on the situation of the death penalty in Yemen. Published in AL Mustakbal newspaper, 25 December 2012.

Article by ICDP Commissioner Mr. Ibrahim Najjar to mark International Human Rights Day 2012. Published in L’orient-Le Jour newspaper (Lebanon) on 13 December 2012 and in elnashra (Lebanon).

Article by ICDP Commissioner Ms Ioanna Kuçuradi to mark International Human Rights Day 2012. Published in the daily Milliyet under the title “Hukuku Ýntikam Haline Getiren Ceza: Ýdam” / “Death Penalty: A Punishment that transforms Law into Revenge”, 9 December 2012.

Article by ICDP President Mr. Federico Mayor to mark International Human Rights Day. Published in the Hindustan Times newspaper (India), 9 December 2012.

Article by ICDP Commissioner Mr. Mohammed Bedjoaui highlighting the forthcoming vote on the Resolution on a Moratorium on the use of the Death Penalty at the UN’s Third Committee, November 2012. Published by Inter Press Service news agency, 16 November 2012.

Article by ICDP Commissioner Mr. Mohammed Bedjaoui published in the newspapers Libération (Morocco) and Allitihad Alichtiraki (Morocco) as a follow-up to the Rabat Congress against the Death Penalty, 29 and 30 October 2012.

Article by ICDP President Mr. Federico Mayor to mark World Day against the Death Penalty and the 6th meeting of ICDP in Madrid, 10 October 2012. Published in El Pais newspaper (Spain), 10 October 2012.

Interview with Commissioner Bill Richardson for Amnesty International Spain, 17 December 2012.

Interview with ICDP President Mr. Federico Mayor in Opinion Internationale, 22 November 2012.

Interview with ICDP Commissioner Mr. Robert Badinter in Opinion Internationale, 12 October 2012.