France will host the next World Congress for the Universal Abolition of the Death Penalty in 2026, French President Emmanuel Macron said tonight, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
"That fight (against the death penalty) is necessary," the French president underlined, while the practice is still widespread in Saudi Arabia, China and Iran and has not been abolished in a democratic country like the US.
On December 10, 1948, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, where a celebration was organized today.
Macron emphasized that the set principles on the protection of human rights are neither "cultural" nor "Western" and that they are "open to all people".
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