Pope Francis called for debt relief for the poor countries of the South of the globe and the universal abolition of the death penalty in his message for World Peace Day 2025, which takes place on January 1.

Justice Minister Abdellatif Ouahbi on December 9, 2024 said Morocco will vote in favor of the tenth United Nations resolution on a moratorium on the application of the death penalty.

To mark World Human Rights Day (10 December)

The Taliban Supreme Court announced on December 10, 2024 that a man and a woman have been publicly flogged in Ghazni province, southeastern Afghanistan, on charges of “adultery.”