1) Women fight for rights in Afghan elections 2) Colombia’s paramilitaries ‘recycled’ into conflict 3) Torture debases justice in US bid to contain ‘terror threat’ 4) ‘How confessions are beaten out ’ by Ukraine authorities 5) Ethnic minorities singled out for attack in Iran 6) AI lights the flame of hope at ICM 7) Worldwide appeals: Yemen: Death penalty appeal to President; Guinea: Executions imminent; Democratic Republic of Congo: Teenage boy sentenced to death; Sudan: Young offender at risk of execution 8) Updates: Moroccan prisoners of war released; Stay of execution in Uzbekistan; Death penalty for rape in Liberia 9) Former death row prisoner in Nigeria describes torment 10) Obstacles to abolition in Nigeria – a legal view 11) Uganda to end mandatory death sentences 12) A beacon for West Africa 13) World day against the death penalty
