African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights decisions. The vision of the Court is an Africa with a viable human rights culture. On January 22, 2006, the Eighth Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union elected the first eleven Judges of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights. Judges are normally elected for six-year terms and can be re-elected once. The President and Vice-President are elected to two-year terms and can be re-elected once. The Court had its First Ordinary Session from July 2–5, 2006 in Banjul, the Gambia. The Court is located in Arusha, Tanzania, at the Phase II of the Mwalimu
Capital punishment by country United Arab Emirates (1), Vietnam (unknown number). "Note: The tables can be sorted alphabetically or chronologically using the icon." Of the 49 independent states in Europe that are UN members or have UN Observer status: Abolition of death penalty is a pre-condition for entry into the European Union, which considers capital punishment a "cruel and inhuman" practice and "not been shown in any way to act as a deterrent to crime". Since 1999, Belarus has been the only recognized country in Europe to carry out executions. 2009 and 2015 were the first two years in recorded history when Europe was