Abolition refers to the act of putting an end to something by law, and may refer to: *

Abolitionism Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery. In Western Europe and the Americas, abolitionism was a historic movement that sought to end the Atlantic slave trade and liberate the enslaved people. The Britis ...

, abolition of slavery *

Abolition of the death penalty Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...

, also called capital punishment *

Abolition of monarchy The abolition of monarchy and anti-royalism is a legislative or revolutionary movement to abolish monarchical elements in government, usually hereditary. Abolition of absolutist monarchy in favor of limited government under constitutional monarch ...

* Abolition of nuclear weapons * Abolition of prisons * Police abolition movement * Abolition of suffering * Abolitionism (animal rights), related to veganism * Abolition of time zones * Abolition of borders

See also