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Encourage the involvement in the international anti-death penalty movement: private Date: 26 February to 1 March 2019 sector, sports, etc. Location: Brussels (Belgium) Put in place a global strategy to move the last retentionist countries towards abolition. Duration: 4 days Accompany Africa towards abolition: could Africa be the next abolitionist continent? Number of participants: 1,500 per day Counter populist movements, make progress in raising awareness about abolition and make Reach of the event: an average of 115 countries represented at previous congresses younger generations actors of change. Break the isolation of civil society, which works on a daily basis to abolish the death penalty The 7th World Congress in Brussels has been preceded by the 3rd Regional Congress Against the death in retentionist or moratorium countries by promoting networking. Death Penalty which took place on 9 and 10 April 2018 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Raise awareness among the Belgian population and teach young people, from Belgium and beyond, about abolition of the death penalty.

Organiser: ECPM (Together against the death penalty) www.ecpm.org BENEFICIARIES

Abolitionist civil society, coalitions of actors against the death penalty and their member Sponsored by organisations working for fundamental rights. Held under Co-funded by The 150 members of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty. the patronage of the European Union National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs). Professional parliamentary, legal and academic networks against the death penalty. The Member States of the Core Group. Teachers, students and pupils. Citizens. With the support of The media.

WHY BRUSSELS?

To mobilise as many people as possible: Brussels’ central position will allow a strong In partnership with: mobilisation (minimum of 1,500 people / day) and will make it possible to optimise networking The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, composed of more than 150 in terms of quantity and diversity (NGOs, lawyers, parliamentarians, researchers, etc.). NGOs, bar associations, local authorities and trade unions, was founded in Rome on 13 May 2002. Its foundation is the result of the commitment made by Because of its important political representation: the Belgian capital has numerous political the signatories of the Final Declaration of the First World Congress against representatives. It is therefore attractive and provides an opportunity for high-level the Death Penalty, organised by the French association ECPM (Ensemble contre la peine de advocacy. mort) in June 2001 in Strasbourg. The World Coalition aims to strengthen the international dimension of the fight against the death penalty. Its ultimate objective is to achieve the Brussels is the capital of Europe: it therefore possesses all the assets to be positioned as universal abolition of the death penalty. To this end, it supports the work of its member the spearhead of the abolitionist movement. organisations and coordinates international advocacy for abolition. The Coalition also designated 10 October as the World Day against the Death Penalty. It is a partner of the World Congress against the Death Penalty, which takes place every three years.

With the support of the members of the Core Group: informal network bringing together 12 diplomatic services (Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Benin, France, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Norway, Rwanda, Spain and Switzerland) to mobilise political actors.

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HONORARY PRESIDENT OF ECPM Tuesday, 26 February 2019 • ROBERT BADINTER, former Minister of Justice of the Republic of France who abolished • 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Side events and panels (Egmont Palace) the death penalty in France in 1981, former President of the Constitutional Council • Networks meetings (Egmont Palace) POLITICAL FIGURES • 8:00 PM Theatrical performance of Suzy et Franck (Les Tanneurs theatre) • ANTONIO TAJANI, President of the European Parliament Wednesday, 27 February 2019 • FEDERICA MOGHERINI, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs • 10:00 AM-1:00 PM Official opening ceremony (European Parliament) and Security Policy, Vice-president of the European Commission • 3:00 PM-5:00 PM Plenary 1 (European Parliament) • CECILIA MALSTRÖM, European Union Commissioner for Trade • 7:00 PM Cocktail networking with the civil society (Egmont Palace) • NEVEN MIMICA, European Union Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development • DIDIER REYNDERS, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Thursday, 28 February 2019 of the Kingdom of Belgium • 9:30 PM-5:00 PM Debates (Egmont Palace) • MARISE PAYNE, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Commonwealth of Australia • 8:00 PM Evening of testimonies (Bozar) • NICOLA RENZI, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of San Marino st • CHEICK SAKO, Minister of State, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Guinea Friday, 1 March 2019 • BESSOLÉ RENÉ BAGORO, Minister of Justice, Human Rights and Civic Promotion of Burkina Faso • 9:00 AM - 1:30 PM Debates (Egmont Palace) • MOHAMMED AUJJAR, Minister of Justice of the Kingdom of Morocco • 3:00 PM Closing ceremony (Bozar) • ABUBACARR M. TAMBADOU, Attorney General and Minister of Justice of the Republic • 5:00 PM The World March for Abolition of the Gambia • SALIM JREISSATI, Minister of Justice in the caretaker government of Lebanon • FLAVIEN MBATA, Minister of Justice and Human Rights of the Central African Republic ACADEMIC PROGRAMME • DATUK LIEW VUI KEONG, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department in charge of Judicial Affairs of Malaysia Wednesday 27 February 2019 • PASCALE BAERISWYL, State Secretary of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of the Swiss Confederation • Plenary session: Business and the death penalty • AUDUN HALVORSEN, State Secretary to Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway 27 FEBRUARY 2019 – 3:00 PM TO 5:00 PM – EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT HEMICYCLE • MARYANN NJAU-KIMANI, Chair of the Kenya Task Force looking at the parameters Can business become a new ally in the abolitionist movement? To encourage this collaboration, of ensuring that the judgment on the non-mandatory nature of the death penalty is implanted representatives from the private sector will present the various ways in which they commit • ARAMIS AYALA, State Attorney for the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, USA to combating capital punishment. This plenary session will also be an opportunity to consider putting abolition on the agenda of the business and human rights movement. UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL RAPPORTEURS • AGNÈS CALLAMARD, Special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, United Nations Thursday 28 February 2019 • MICHEL FORST, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, United Nations • ANAÏS MARIN, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, United Nations • Plenary session: Abolition strategies: challenges and opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa • FIONNUALA NÍ AOLÁIN, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights 28 FEBRUARY 2019 – 9:00 AM TO 11:00 AM – EGMONT PALACE, EUROPE ROOM and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, United Nations A number of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have abolished the death penalty over the last • JAVAID REHMAN, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic few years. What challenges must be overcome and what strategies need to be put in place to Republic of Iran, United Nations make Sub-Saharan Africa completely abolitionist?

OTHER MEMBERS OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS • Roundtable: Reducing the scope of the death penalty • RÉMY NGOY LUMBU, Commissioner and member of the Working Group on the Death Penalty 28 FEBRUARY 2019 – 11:30 AM TO 1:30 PM – EGMONT PALACE, EUROPE ROOM of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights The death penalty continues to be applied for all kinds of offences despite a clear international • MAYA SAHLI-FADEL, Commissioner and member of the Working Group on the Death Penalty legal framework. This session will explore strategic ways to reduce the scope of the death of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights penalty in search of its total abolition. • NAVANETHEM PILLAY, President of the International Commission against the Death Penalty

SAKHAROV AND NOBEL PEACE PRIZES LAUREATES • Workshop: Death row prisoners and their families: assistance and support • ENSAF HAIDAR, wife of Saudi blogger RAIF BADAWI, laureate of the 2015 Sakharov Prize 28 FEBRUARY 2019 – 11:30 AM TO 1:30 PM – EGMONT PALACE, ARENBERG ROOM • JAMEL M’SALLEM, president of the Tunisian League for Human Rights - Founding organisation Individuals who have been acquitted and family members of people who have been executed of the National Dialogue Quartet, laureate of the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize or sentenced to death will share their needs and their projects. This will be followed by a • SHIRIN EBADI, judge, laureate of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize discussion about the kinds of concrete support the abolitionist movement could provide. • Training: The media and the abolition of the death penalty 4 5

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28 FEBRUARY 2019 – 11:30 AM TO 1:30 PM – EGMONT PALACE, BLUE ROOM EVENTS

• Roundtable: How to prevent a resurgence of the death penalty? LINDY LOU, JURY N°2 by Florent Vassault 28 FEBRUARY 2019 – 3:00 PM TO 5:00 PM – EGMONT PALACE, EUROPE ROOM MONDAY, 25 FEBRUARY - 7:30 PM - CINÉMA GALLERIES What drives countries to reintroduce the death penalty and resume sentences or executions? In partnership with Ciné ONU - UNRIC / English with French subtitles Panellists will identify potential actions which could prevent such a resurgence. Over 20 years ago, Lindy Lou was called up to serve on a jury. Since then, she has lived with unbearable guilt. She then began a journey to compare her experience with that • Workshop: Abolition generation: young people join the movement! of the 11 other jurors with whom she had sentenced a man to death. 28 FEBRUARY 2019 – 3:00 PM TO 5:00 PM – EGMONT PALACE, ARENBERG ROOM The screening will be followed by a debate with Florent Vassault, director. This workshop aims to give the floor to young people, encouraging them to take a stand SUZY & FRANCK - Inti Théâtre – from and starring Didier Poiteaux Director : Olivier Lenel against the death penalty and define how they would contribute to the abolitionist movement. TUESDAY, 26 FEBRUARY - 8:00 PM - THÉÂTRE LES TANNEURS French with English overtitles • Training: Keys for preparing a funding proposal Suzy lives in Paris and Frank lives on death row in Texas. In 1996, by chance, they 28 FEBRUARY 2019 – 3:00 PM TO 5:00 PM – EGMONT PALACE, ORANGE ROOM started a correspondence. Little by little, they meet and soon get married. 20 years Through exercises, participants will learn to identify donors and obtain keys to prepare funding later, they still love each other but still do not live together. The performance will be applications. followed by a discussion with the artist and Sandrine Ageorges-Skinner.

NETWORKING EVENING WEDNESDAY, 27 FEBRUARY – 7 PM - EGMONT PALACE Friday 1 March 2019 An exceptional evening in the prestigious Hall of Mirrors at the Palais d’Egmont to meet and discuss around original artistic and cultural events. • Roundtable: The discriminatory application of the death penalty towards women THURSDAY, 28 FEBRUARY - 8:00 PM - ROOM M IN BOZAR 1 MARCH 2019 – 9:00 AM TO 11:00 AM – EGMONT PALACE, EUROPE ROOM EVENING OF TESTIMONIES Getting out of political advocacy to find a sensitive connection with the cause of This roundtable will attempt to raise awarness on the discriminatory nature of the death abolition is the first reason for this traditional meeting. Let yourself be carried away penalty in the case of women and to propose concrete ways to integrate this issue into the by the stories of our guests which give way to emotion. advocacy of abolitionists. THE WORLD MARCH FOR ABOLITION • Workshop: New technologies and the death penalty FRIDAY, 1 MARCH - 5:30 PM MEET AT MONT DES ARTS 1 MARCH 2019 – 9:00 AM TO 11:00 AM – EGMONT PALACE, ARENBERG ROOM To conclude the Congress with a moment of militant communion, join us at this This session will provide an overview of the possibilities offered by new technologies, whether to illuminated March that will swarm through the streets of Brussels to demand abolition convey a message or support the work of anti-death penalty organisations. together now!

• Training: UN advocacy: using the UPR and Treaty Bodies to advocate for abolition 1 MARCH 2019 – 9:00 AM TO 11:00 AM – EGMONT PALACE, ORANGE ROOM How do the UN Universal Periodic Review and Treaty Bodies operate? How can they be used EXHIBITIONS effectively to advocate for abolition? THE GREAT WITNESSES OF THE ABOLITION - Christophe Meireis • Roundtable: Foreigners sentenced to death in the fight against terrorism 25 FEBRUARY TO 1 MARCH - ESPACE MENUHIN - EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 1 MARCH 2019 – 11:30 AM TO 1:30 PM – EGMONT PALACE, EUROPE ROOM 17 portraits of those who symbolise the abolition. Former death row inmates, families, There is little information about foreigners sentenced to death on terrorism charges. In this politicians, they discover each other. They whisper to you from the depths of their beings context, how to engage countries on the situation of their nationals facing a death sentence or these words that inhabit them. The exhibition is accompanied by the presentation of execution overseas? the LXB Chair, by artist Wang Keping, in honour of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiao Bo.

• Workshop: New strategies for abolition COMICS FOR ABOLITION 1 MARCH 2019 – 11:30 AM TO 1:30 PM – EGMONT PALACE, ARENBERG ROOM 15 FEBRUARY TO 1 MARCH, 2019 - GATES OF BRUSSELS PARK, IN FRONT OF THE This interactive workshop will propose new strategies, taking into account the new trends and ROYAL PALACE risks affecting the abolitionist movement. A general public exhibition, which combines factual information and comic strips to highlight the views artists of the 9th Art from all over the world on the issue of the death penalty.

• Training: Advocating for abolition with community and religious leaders WHO DESERVES TO DIE ? 1 MARCH 2019 – 11:30 AM TO 1:30 PM – EGMONT PALACE, ORANGE ROOM 25 FEBRUARY TO 1 MARCH, 2019 – EGMONT PALACE / What arguments should be used to mobilise community and religious leaders in support of AS OF 28 FEBRUARY – BOZAR abolition? How should this dialogue be used when advocating for abolition? This photo exhibition of Spanish photojournalist Sofía Moro is an in-depth, ongoing research project developed over the past ten years on the application of the death penalty in the world today.

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#7CongressECPM WORLD CONGRESS AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY AMONG OUR WITNESSES ECPM PRESENTATION

ARTHUR JUDAH ANGEL, Ex-convicted to death, Nigeria ECPM (Together Against the Death Penalty) is an organisation working for a particular Arthur Judah Angel, who was sentenced to death in Nigeria for murder in 1986 at the age of 21, cause: universal abolition of the death penalty under all circumstances. has always denied that he had committed the crimes for which he was accused. He had to face a cancelled execution date at the last minute and witnessed 58 executions organised on the same ADVOCACY WITH THE HIGHEST AUTHORITIES day. He was finally released in 2000 after 16 years in prison, almost 10 of which were on death row. ECPM is the first NGO devoted to the struggle against the death penalty to have obtained ECOSOC status which guarantees it a presence and the possibility of advocating at the SABINE ATLAOUI, Spouse of the death row prisoner SERGE ATLAOUI - France very heart of the UN system. Sabine Atlaoui is the wife of Serge Atlaoui. This French citizen was arrested in Indonesia in 2005 ECPM created the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty in 2002 which today has in an acrylic factory that turned out to be a cover in an ecstasy production case. Sentenced to more than 150 members – NGOs, bar associations, local bodies, unions – from across the death penalty on appeal in 2007, despite his protests of innocence, Serge is still on Indonesian the world. death row. Sabine is fighting to save her husband and is involved in the universal struggle for the ECPM leads advocacy and public mobilisation campaigns with political decision-makers abolition of the death penalty. (European Union, African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, governments, etc.)

ANTOINETTE CHAHINE, Ex-convicted to death, member of the French National Order UNITING ABOLITIONISTS FROM ACROSS THE WORLD of Merit – Lebanon ECPM is the founder and organiser of the World Congresses Against the Death Penalty. Antoinette was arrested in 1994 and sentenced to death in 1997 for the murder of a priest. The real These events bring together more than 1,300 people representing the world abolitionist reason for her imprisonment proved to be the fact that her brother belonged to a Christian militia movement. Ministers, parliamentarians, diplomats, activists, civil society organisations, which was banned in Lebanon. Antoinette was tortured in prison. She was finally released in 1999 researchers and journalists come together every three years to strengthen their ties and following international campaigns. draw up strategies for the future.

GENEVIÈVE DONADINI, Sitting juror at the Ranucci trial - France EDUCATION AND AWARENESS OF ABOLITION In 1976 the trial of Christian Ranucci for the murder of a little girl was held in the court of Aix-en- ECPM works in schools to encourage young people to support the issue through drawing Provence in France. At the end of the trial, the accused was sentenced to death and then guillotined competitions, introductions to journalism and free class visits – with the participation on July 28th of the same year. Among the 12 jurors was Geneviève Donadini, a young mother at of specialists, individuals previously sentenced to death or the families of prisoners the time of the events. 40 years later, Mrs. Donadini wrote «Le procès Ranucci. Témoignage d’un sentenced to death. More than 10,000 middle and high school pupils have been involved juré d’assise» (The Ranucci trial. Testimony of a sitting juror), published by Harmattan. since October 2009. ECPM raises awareness among the public concerning minorities and vulnerable groups AHMED HAOU, Ex-convicted to death - Morrocco by participating in the Gay Pride, the Fête de la Humanité, Cities for Life, the World Day A former death row prisoner in Morocco, he was sentenced on the 30th of July, 1984 for an offence Against the Death Penalty, World Human Rights Day, etc. against national security and after having protested against Hassan’s regime at a peaceful demonstration. Due to the pressure exerted by international organisations, he was finally pardoned STRENGTHENING THE CAPACITIES OF LOCAL ACTORS AND TAKING ACTION in 1998. WITH THEM ECPM fights against the isolation of activists wherever the death penalty remains by NDUME OLATUSHANI, Ex-convicted to death, United States supporting the formation of national and regional coalitions against the death penalty Ndume spent 28 years in prison, including 20 on death row in the United States, for a crime he did (Morocco, Tunisia, Central Africa, Asia, etc.), as well as the creation of networks of not commit. Saved by the discovery of drawing and painting, supported throughout his detention abolitionist parliamentarians and lawyers. by his relatives and abolitionist organisations, he continues today to be stronlgy devoted alongside ECPM encourages efficiency among its local partners by organising training sessions and young people against the death penalty. advocating at all political levels for their work to be supported.

PETE OUKO, Ex-convicted to death, Kenya PROXIMITY TO PRISONERS SENTENCED TO DEATH Sentenced to death for murder in 2001 at the age of 31, Pete Ouko, then father of two young ECPM carries out and publishes judicial investigations into death row (in Morocco, Tunisia children, has always claimed his innocence. Detained for nearly 18 years in a cell with 13 other and the United States). Our publication “Investigation into Death Row in the DRC” received prisoners, he now testifies of the difficulty of surviving while waiting for his execution. He was the French Republic’s top Human Rights Prize. pardoned and released on the 26th of October 2007 and is now a graduate in law at the University ECPM supports the victims of the death penalty, prisoners and their families such as of London. He is involved in defending the rights of prisoners in Africa through the Youth Safety Serge Atlaoui and Hank Skinner. Awareness Initiative, of which he is the founder and director. ECPM supports correspondence with prisoners sentenced to death.

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