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The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty has recently reviewed and updated the strategy for its campaign in favour of the international and regional protocols on abolition. Over the past five years, there have been positive steps taken by several African States with respect to the Second Optional Protocol of the ICCPR (ratifications by Benin, Gabon and Guinea Bissau, signatures by Angola and Madagascar). For 2015, the World Coalition has selected several African States as priority targets: Togo (Jan-Feb), Morocco & Cote d'Ivoire (Mar-Apr), Angola (Sept-Oct), and Madagascar & Sierra Leone (Nov-Dec). More information concerning the World Coalition's campaign, including information packs for lobbying actions, can be found here."

Penal Reform International has produced a report on Strengthening death penalty standards (2015) both underlining the existing minimum standards with respect to the continued application of the death penalty and exploring a number of emerging norms. The report can be found here.