Our Bin it! campaign aims to add to international pressure on countries which retain the death penalty to consign it to the dustbin ("trashcan" to our American friends) of history.

Every month our Bin It! campaign spotlights one country in particular. This month our focus is on Kuwait.

Kuwait is believed not to have executed anyone since 2007 but continues to sentence people to death for a wide range of offences – including drug smuggling, sex crimes and murder.

You can email and attach some virtual trash (use your own image or select one from the list below). Better still, send a letter and enclose the real thing (though please nothing hazardous or offensive). [You don't have to include any trash if you don't want to - what's most important is that as many people write as possible.]

Try to keep your message short and sweet - and again, please don't be offensive (it won't help our cause). If you're wondering what to say, try something along the following lines - or even better, use your own words:

'Dear Mr/Ms Ambassador,

The death penalty is an outdated and barbaric practice which belongs in the past. In retaining it your country is in an increasingly small minority in the world. Please join the rest of the modern world and bin it, along with the enclosed/attached piece of rubbish.

Yours sincerely,

XXXXXX'


Ambassador's details:

His Excellency Abdullah Al-Murad
Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary
Permanent Mission of Kuwait to the United Nations
321 East 44th Street, New York, NY 10017
USA

E-mail: kuwait@un.int

[If you send an email - please put the Ambassador's name in the subject line.]


Other countries

If you have time, write to some of the other countries which retain the death penalty too.

For a full list see the facts page of this site.

For the contact details for each of the UN Ambassadors, click here.