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Les dossiers du CERI sous la direction de Bayram Balci Issues de l’ex URSS, les républiques d’Asie centrale -Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Tadjikistan, Ouzbékistan et Turkménistan- étaient, au moment de leur accession à l’indépendance, des entités politiques […]

      On the occasion of the launching of issue 2-3 of the Women Philosophers’ Journal, the International Network of Women Philosophers, sponsored by UNESCO, is organizing a conference on “Arab Spring as seen […]

Paris, Ankara, 25 April – On 23 May, Istanbul will become, for one week, the human rights capital of the world. More than 200 NGOs from 130 countries will gather to discuss and exchange views on a current theme: “Human Rights and Democratic Transitions: Experiences and Challenges”.

The 2012 figures on the use of the death penalty confirm that the overall trend globally is towards abolition: only one in 10 countries worldwide carried out death sentences. However, 2012 also saw setbacks: the resumption of executions especially in Gambia, India, Japan and Pakistan, as well as the alarming rise in reported executions in Iraq compared with 2011, are of grave concern.