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The project undertakes a broad range of activities designed to strengthen the application of human rights standards to the use of the death penalty. The main activities of the project include: - (i) The provision of assistance and free legal representation to approximately 60 prisoners under sentence of death;
(ii) the provision of expert support on international and comparative law to lawyers advising on death penalty laws and procedures;
(iii) strategic litigation both at national level, in criminal and constitutional proceedings, and at international level, in individual and group applications to international human rights bodies such as the UN Human Rights Committee, the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights, and the African Commission on Human Rights;
(iv) consultation, advice and dialogue with governments, judges, lawyers and human rights workers;
(v) the provision of inter-active training for local lawyers and NGOs, backed up by relevant publications; and
(vi) the dissemination of research findings to opinion formers and civil society organisations.
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