In the Framework of a seminar of the Group of French-speaking Ambassadors and the two secretariats of the Council of Europe and of the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF) on the co-operation programme between the two organisations, an informal exchange on advocacy against the death penalty took place on 22 March 2024 with civil society.

This part of the seminar dedicated to the abolition of the death penalty is also linked to the Committee of Ministers decision taken on 18 October 2023 which instructed to explore the possibility of co-operation on advocacy in favour of the abolition of the death penalty, as a first step, within the framework of the ad hoc interventions envisaged in the co-operation programme.

The participants to the seminar had the opportunity to exchange with Mrs Bronwyn Dudley, Programme manager at the World coalition against the death penalty, and with Mrs Xavière Prugnard, FIACAT Representative to the African Union, inter alia on the contribution of the Council of Europe to the global abolition and on the situation in Africa regarding the death penalty.