Rights lobby, EU fault proposed Katiba over death penalty

United Nations human rights experts have urged the government of Zambia to withdraw the appointment of a convicted rapist as the country’s ambassador in the campaign against gender violence.

For the first time in the history and development of Constitutions in Tanzania, a final Draft Constitution has included in it the death penalty and how it can be executed by the Head of State. All Constitutions before and after independence have never included in their Articles a crime of murder or any other crime, whose penalty is death.

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Death penalty should not be abolished
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Those human Rights campaigns who are seeking to Pressurize Tanzanians into abolishing the death penalty are addressing the wrong audience; instead, they should ascertain and prevail upon Tanzania's minority with murderous tendencies and the latter's ...

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CA supports death penalty
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The death penalty is likely to remain in the new constitution as members of the Constituent Assembly (CA) yesterday expressed general support for capital punishment and suggested hanging of corrupt public officers. The CA is of the view that the penalty is ...

A Kenyan nurse is sentenced to death after being found guilty of carrying out an abortion five years ago on a woman who later bled to death.

A Nigerian court martial in the capital Abuja sentences 54 soldiers to death for refusing to fight Boko Haram Islamist militants.

The European Union has urged the government to accept recommendations concerning the abolition of death penalty and corporal punishment in schools.

Following attacks by Boko Haram militants, MPs in Chad vote to reinstate the death penalty for acts of terrorism six months after it was abolished.

EU Heads of Mission and Officials in a group picture with CHRAGG officials (L-R: first row): Maria van Berlekom – Head of Development Cooperation (Swedish Embassy), H.E. Mr Egon Kochanke – German Ambassador, Camilla Christensen- Deputy Head of Mission (Danish Embassy), H.E. Mr Paul Cartier – Belgian Ambassador, H.E Mr Filiberto Ceriani Sebregondi – EU Ambassador, Ms Mary Massay – Executive Secretary (CHRAGG), Luana Reale – Head of Politics, Press & Information (EU), Francis Nzuki – Director...