They confirmed their presence at the Congress... - 7th World Congress Against the Death Penalty

For this 7^th edition, the World Congress Against the Death Penalty will mobilise more than ever before, the great decision-makers and influencers of the fight for human rights coming from all over the world : prestigious political figures, United Nations special rapporteurs, members of international organisations, Sakharov and Nobel Peace Prize laureates, and many members of foreign embassies in the Kingdom of Belgium. Here are the first names of those who will take part in making this Congress a decisive moment. Come meet them in Brussels from February 26^th to March 1^st.

HONORARY PRESIDENT OF ECPM

Robert Badinter, former Minister of Justice of the Republic of France who abolished the death penalty in France in 1981, former President of the Constitutional Council

POLITICAL FIGURES

Antonio Tajani, President of the European Parliament
Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Vicepresident of the European Commission
Cecilia Malström, European Union Commissioner for Trade
Neven Mimica, European Union Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development
Didier Reynders, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Kingdom of Belgium
Marise Payne, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Commonwealth of Australia
Nicola Renzi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of San Marino
Cheick Sako, Minister of State, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Guinea
Bessolé René Bagoro, Minister of Justice, Human Rights and Civic Promotion of Burkina Faso
Mohammed Aujjar, Minister of Justice of the Kingdom of Morocco
Abubacarr M. Tambadou, Attorney General and Minister of Justice of the Republic 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
Datuk Liew Vui Keong, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department in charge of Judicial Affairs of Malaysia
Pascale Baeriswyl, State Secretary of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of the Swiss Confederation
Audun Halvorsen, State Secretary to Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway
Maryann Njau-Kimani, Chair of the Kenya Task Force looking at the parameters of ensuring that the judgment on the non-mandatory nature of the death penalty is implanted
Aramis Ayala, State Attorney for the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, USA

UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL RAPPORTEURS

Michel Forst, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, United Nations
Agnès Callamard, Special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, United Nations
Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, United Nations
Anaïs Marin, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, United Nations
Javaid Rehman, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, United Nations

OTHER MEMBERS OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

Navanethem Pillay, President of the International Commission against the Death Penalty
Maya Sahli-Fadel, Commissioner and member of the Working Group on the Death Penalty of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
Rémy Ngoy Lumbu, Commissioner and member of the Working Group on the Death Penalty of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

SAKHAROV AND NOBEL PEACE PRIZES LAUREATES

Ensaf Haidar, wife of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, laureate of the 2015 Sakharov Prize
Jamel M’Sallem, President of the Tunisian League for Human Rights – Founding organisation of the National Dialogue Quartet, laureate of the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize
Shirin Ebadi, judge, laureate of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize

Photo : Robert Badinter, photographed for the exhibition “Portraits of Abolition” © Christophe Meireis / 7^th World Congress Against the Death Penalty