Ahead of Singapore’s fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on 12 May 2026, we call on member states to urge Singapore to end its use of the death penalty.

CPJP joins 37 international human rights organisations in calling for an immediate halt to executions in Saudi Arabia.

CPJP joins nine other Maldivian and international human rights organisations in calling on the Maldives to withdraw a new bill that would end the country's longstanding moratorium on executions.

A joint statement by ADPAN and 17 partner organisations denouncing the decision of the Parliament of the Maldives to expand the scope of the death penalty to drug-trafficking offences.

Read our joint stakeholder submission, made with seven of our partners, to the fourth Universal Periodic Review of Singapore.

As five men face imminent execution in Singapore, we join many civil society organisations calling on Singapore to halt all executions immediately, and urging Malaysia to protect its nationals on death row and advocate for the complete abolition of the death penalty, at home and internationally.

A promise to a condemned prisoner led to a legal precedent that has commuted more than a thousand death sentences. Law student Jude Forrest reflects on the enduring impact of Geoffrey Robertson KC's landmark argument that prolonged detention on death row constitutes torture.

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.

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

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.

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

Read our joint submission, made with four of our partners, to the inquiry being held by the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade of the Parliament of Australia.