WDATDP: Leveraging the Convention Against Torture to Advocate for Abolition
Type: CLE
Issues: Death Penalty
This CLE will highlight The Advocates for Human Rights' recent advocacy on the death penalty with the Committee Against Torture at the United Nations. The focus of the 2023 World Day Against the Death Penalty is the connection between torture and the death penalty. Some governments use torture to extract confessions from suspects in capital cases. Others subject people on death row to detention conditions that amount to torture. Others use methods of execution that result in a torturous death.
Participants in this CLE will learn how The Advocates brings issues of torture and the death penalty to the UN Committee Against Torture and the results of that advocacy. The CLE will provide an overview of the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and how the Committee Against Torture examines human rights conditions in countries that have ratified the Convention. Then the CLE will highlight issues The Advocates has raised in recent reports to the Committee regarding death penalty issues in Egypt, Ethiopia, the Maldives, Somalia, Tunisia, and Uganda, and the results of that work. The CLE will conclude with a discussion of future pro bono opportunities for attorneys to assist The Advocates with reporting to the Committee.
Format: Online (Zoom)
Presenter: Amy Bergquist, Katia Galambos
One CLE credit will be requested.
Zoom link will be sent after registration.
