Judicial colloquium on the abolition of the death penalty slated for July 20

Jul 17, 2016 News

The European Union (EU) Delegation to Guyana, in partnership with the International Commission against the Death Penalty, the Chancellor of the Judiciary, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the Embassy of the Netherlands in Suriname, is facilitating a Judicial Colloquium on the Abolition of the Death Penalty.
Ms. Navi Pillay, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and current Commissioner of the International Commission against the Death Penalty, Mr Ivan Šimonoviæ, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, and Emeritus Professor, Marc Bossuyt, Emeritus President of the Constitutional Court of Belgium, shall participate in the Colloquium.
The event is slated for July 20, next at the Marriott Hotel in Kingston.
The Colloquium shall include members of the local Judiciary and shall consider the themes of the role of the United Nations in the abolition of the death penalty, the experience of other countries in abolishing the death penalty, the second optional protocol to the international covenant on civil and political rights and the role of Judges in abolishing the death penalty. The European Union, the International Commission against the Death Penalty and the United Nations advocate for the universal abolition of the death penalty.
This is based on the fundamental nature of the right to life; the unacceptable risk of executing innocent people; and the absence of proof that the death penalty serves as a deterrent to crime.
The abolition of the death penalty is essential for the protection of human dignity, as well as for the progressive development of human rights, they argue.
Guyana still has the death penalty on its statutes. A public consultation on its abolition opted to retain the death penalty. However, there has not been an execution in Guyana since 1997.

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