Response to the Call for Inputs for the Secretary-General’s report on the question of the death penalty: Women and the gender dimension of the death penalty
Date: March 13, 2026
Country: All
Partners: Abolition Death Penalty of Iraq Organization, Anti Death Penalty Asia Network, Avocats Sans Frontières France, Center for Legal Support & Inmates’ Rehabilitation, Center for Prisoners’ Rights Japan, European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights, Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, Hope Behind Bars Africa, Legal Awareness Watch , Lembaga Bantuan Hukum Masyarakat, The Coalition of Somali Human Rights Defenders, The Maldivian Democracy Network, The Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty, Gender-Based Violence, Women's Rights
Mechanism: UN Secretary General
Report Type: Call for Inputs
Country: All
Partners: Abolition Death Penalty of Iraq Organization, Anti Death Penalty Asia Network, Avocats Sans Frontières France, Center for Legal Support & Inmates’ Rehabilitation, Center for Prisoners’ Rights Japan, European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights, Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, Hope Behind Bars Africa, Legal Awareness Watch , Lembaga Bantuan Hukum Masyarakat, The Coalition of Somali Human Rights Defenders, The Maldivian Democracy Network, The Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty, Gender-Based Violence, Women's Rights
Mechanism: UN Secretary General
Report Type: Call for Inputs
This report focuses on women and the death penalty, incorporating responses to a March 2026 survey of World Coalition Against the Death Penalty members. Additionally, during the reporting period the CEDAW Committee highlighted discrimination experienced by women affected by the death penalty in its periodic reviews of Iraq, Japan, Kenya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
