Radical Party and "International League for the Abolition of the Death Penalty by the year 2000"

PROGRAM OF ACTIVITIES

Our activities at the Vienna conference center on two appeals, one for the setting up of an International Court and the other for the abolition of the death penalty.

These two appeals, translated into 15 languages and sent to more than 200,000 people, inclunding 40,000 parliamentarians throughout the world, have been signed so far by approximately 50,000 people.

The signatories include: Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Prizewinner; Franco Modigliani, Nobel Economics Prizewinner; Edgar Morin; Alain Finkielkraut; François Fejto; Ramsey Clark; Hans Janitschek, former Secretary of government from Poland, Romania, Byelorussia, Moldavia, Latvia, Russia, the European Parliament, Italy, Mexico, Austria, Albania, Argentina, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Bulgaria, Brazil, Bolivia, Switzerland, Ivory Coast, Columbia, Chile, Ireland, France, Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Vojvodina, Kosovo, Israel, U.S.A., South Africa, Hungary, Lithuania, Estonia, U.K., Guatemala, Portugal and Canada.

Motions and resolutions addressed to the U.N. for the abolition of the death penalty, have been approved by many Regional, Provincial and Town Councils in the Italian Republic.

The signatures collected will be presented to Ibrahima Fall, General Secretary of the Conference, at 3,00 p.m. on 11 June, at the Austria Center - where the Conference is being held - and a press conference will be held, to discuss the appeals, at 12 noon at the "La Wie" Center, Landstrasser Haupstrasse 96 (222/7150800).

The following public figures will take part in the press conference, the presentation of the signatures and other initiatives: Elena Bonner Sacharova, Nikolaj Arzhannikov, Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Human Rights in the Russian Parliament; Emma Bonino, Secretary of the Transnational Radical Party and member of the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies; Adelaide Aglietta, Rapporteur with the European Parliament for matters concerning the death penalty and Leader of the Green Group; Hans Janitschek, former President of the Socialist International; Samir Labidi, jurist, Tunisia; Dennis Sammut, Peoples, Malta; Zvonimir Separovic, Chairman of the Association against Victimization, Croatia; Enrico Modigliani, M.P. Mollé Mollé, M.P.; Ivory Coast; Sergio d'Elia, Mariateresa Di Lascia and Olivia Ratti, members of the International League for the Abolition of the Death Penalty by the Year 2000.

A special train has been organized from Italy to take one hundred activists, working to abolish the death penalty and for the setting up of an Internationa Court, to the Conference.

In the area of "Parallel Activities" at the Conference, the Transnatioanl Radical Party and the International League will not only be presenting abolitionist videos, publications and posters, but also an exhibit entitled "HANDS OFF CAIN", comprising: "Contact" (works by Emilio Leofreddi, Massimo Liberti, Enrico Manera); "Tam-Tam" (Franco di Carlo); photographs of celebrities seated in an electric chair by Roberto Granata, and silk-screen prints by well-known Italian graphic artists (Mattotti, Ricci, Ghermandi, Negrin, Caramanica, La Porta, Sagona, Giandelli).