GCL Speaking Tour – November 2015

Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis and Guyana

Following GCL’s successful Speaking Tour in 2014 to Antigua, Jamaica, St Lucia, Grenada, Barbados and Nassau, Bahamas in October 2014, a second one is being planned to take place in November 2015.

Last year’s Speakers were:

• Leela Ramdeen, Chair of GCL and also Chair of the Catholic Commission for Social Justice in  Trinidad and Tobago;
• Renny Cushing, member of the House of Representatives of the State of New Hampshire, USA, and founder and Executive Director of Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights (an organization that comprises of families of murder victims who oppose capital punishment); and
• Juan Melendez, a Puerto Rican who spent nearly 18 years on death row in Florida for a crime he did not commit. He was exonerated in 2002.

This year’s Speakers will be:

Bill Pelke – founder of an organization that is led by murder victim family members who are opposed to the death penalty. He is also the author of a book entitled: Journey of Hope…From Violence to Healing. Among others, Bill has been

• President and Cofounder of Journey of Hope…From Violence to Healing;
• Board Member Journey of Hope…from Violence to Healing; 1997-Present
• Board: National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (USA); 1996-2012, Chair 2004-08
• Founding Board Member of Murder Victims Families for Human Rights 2004
• Board Member MVFHR; 2004-Present
• Incorporator of Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation; 1993
• Board Member MVFR; 1991-1998
• Board Member; Alaskans Against the Death Penalty 1999 – Present

Carmelo Campos-Cruz –  is an Attorney-at-Law, Deputy Chair of GCL, human rights activist and professor of Criminal Justice. Mr. Campos was the President of the Commission on the Rights of the Crime’s Victims of the Puerto Rico Bar Association and founder of the Puerto Rican Coalition against Death Penalty. He has given lectures on various human rights issues in the Dominican Republic, France, Guatemala, Jordan, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Spain, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States and Venezuela. He is a PhD candidate in International Law at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Tentative Schedule

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The objectives of the Tour are:

1. To raise awareness of the inhumanity of the death penalty and of its ineffectiveness as a crime reduction strategy.
2. To share alternative strategies for crime reduction.
3. To encourage governments to vote for a moratorium at the UN.
4.  To mobilise support from organisations and individual for the fight against the  death penalty.

To date there is no empirical evidence to determine a link between crime rates and the application of the death penalty. Yet capital punishment is often portrayed as a means to reduce high volumes of violent crimes. While capital punishment does not act as a deterrent for violent crimes, there are a number of preventive strategies to address rising crime rates such as investing in education, youth development and job creation, reducing poverty and socio-economic inequality. These strategies can contribute to build a safer, more democratic and just society in the Greater Caribbean.

Contacts

Giulia Pasquinelli – Project Manager, contact@gcforlife.org

Leela M. Ramdeem – Chair, leela_ramdeen@hotmail.com, 1-868-299-8945

Carmelo Campos-Cruz – Deputy Chair, carmelocampos@yahoo.com, 1-787-648-5624