A powerful reflection on Geoffrey Robertson KC's landmark legal argument that prolonged detention on death row constitutes torture, and how a promise made to a condemned prisoner led to a precedent that has commuted more than a thousand death sentences.

A joint statement by 9 organisations calling on the Government of the Maldives to abandon attempts to increase the use and scope of the death penalty.

Read our joint submission, made with two of our partners, to the fourth Universal Periodic Review of Australia.

An open letter from 75 organisations and individuals calling for the newly elected government to take immediate steps towards abolishing capital punishment in South Korea.

On World Drug Day 2025, 70 organisations call on the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) to take urgent action to end unlawful use of the death penalty for drug-related offences.

Read our joint statement co-signed by 11 organisations expressing our concerns about the draft Enforced Disappearance Prevention and Redress Ordinance 2025.

You can help Elke raise vital funds for CPJP’s work.

On the 10th anniversary of the executions of Andrew and Myuran, we remember them.

CPJP Ambassador Hon. Lex Lasry AM KC responds to an opinion piece by Anil Nayar, Singapore’s High Commissioner to Australia.

Read the open letter co-signed by 10 organisations to the United Nations Secretary-General, His Excellency António Guterres, in advance of his visit to Bangladesh from 13-16 March.

CPJP is honoured to join so many organisations worldwide in this statement for International Women’s Day on 8 March 2025.

Read our joint statement with 10 allied organisations condemning the latest restrictions imposed on TJC and calling on the Singapore government to cease the use of laws that unduly restrict the right to freedom of expression.

Read CPJP’s statement on the findings and recommendations of the recent parliamentary inquiry into Australia’s advocacy against the death penalty.

CPJP Ambassador Hon. Lex Lasry AM KC reflects on the use of the death penalty in Singapore, 19 years after the execution of his client Van Nguyen, an Australian citizen.

CPJP Chair Stephen Keim SC recently published an article in the journal Pandora’s Box about why opposing the death penalty is important to him, and why it should matter to all Australians.

An opinion piece by Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, co-founder of the Australian Wrongful and Arbitrary Detention Alliance.

Read our newsletter from 22 November 2024.

Read our joint statement with six allied organisations who are greatly alarmed at the deteriorating human rights situation in Singapore, including executions for drug related offences and further restrictions on anti-death penalty activists.

Today CPJP joins activists around the world to mark World Day Against the Death Penalty under the theme 'The death penalty protects no one'.

CPJP is horrified that Missouri executed Marcellus Williams this week, despite grave concerns that he was wrongfully convicted.

Photo credit: Marcellus Williams’ legal team