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Mar 14, 2024 · The use of the death penalty is not consistent with the right to life and the right to live free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. There is growing consensus for universal abolition of the death penalty. Some 170 States have abolished or introduced a moratorium on the death penalty either in law or in practice.
Oct 9, 2023 · GENEVA (9 October 2023) – The UN Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Morris Tidball-Binz, and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Alice Jill Edwards, reiterated their call for the complete abolition of the death penalty. Ahead of the 21st World Day Against the Death Penalty, they issued the following statement:
Jan 31, 2024 · OHCHR calls for their immediate release. Death penalty incompatible with right to life. The infliction of the death penalty is profoundly difficult to reconcile with human dignity, the fundamental right to life, and the right to live free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, said UN Human Rights Chief, Volker Türk.
May 12, 2022 · GENEVA (12 May 2022) – UN human rights experts* today called on the Government of Singapore to immediately impose a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, and said its continued use of capital punishment for drug-related crimes ran contrary to international law.
Apr 3, 2023 · UN staff, including eight OHCHR colleagues, detained in Yemen. OHCHR calls for their immediate release. HC: Death penalty should be abolished in the 21st century. “For many years, the United Nations has opposed the death penalty in all circumstances,” said UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk. “I share this position with the firmest conviction.
Sep 22, 2016 · 22 September 2016. Capital punishment affects an array of people, including convicted persons, the family members of both victims and perpetrators, and even people involved in criminal proceedings and executions, a senior United Nations human rights official declared today, as the world body launched a publication on the issue.
Although Article 6 of the ICCPR permits the use of the death penalty in limited circumstances, it also provides that “nothing in this article shall be invoked to delay or to prevent the abolition of capital punishment by any State Party to the present Covenant.”. Safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death ...
Mar 27, 2014 · 27 March 2014. In 2007, the call by the General Assembly for a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty launched a trend for the abolition of the capital punishment. Today, some 160 countries have abolished the death penalty or no longer practice it. “In countries that do allow for capital punishment, there remain too many cases of people ...
Mar 1, 2022 · 01 March 2022. The Committee on Human Rights today concluded its review of the initial periodic report of Qatar on measures taken to implement the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, with Experts commending legislative revision efforts and asking about the State's stance on the death penalty and capital punishment.
Capital punishment may only be carried out pursuant to a final judgement rendered by a competent court after legal process which gives all possible safeguards to ensure a fair trial, at least equal to those contained in article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, including the right of anyone suspected of or charged with a crime for which capital punishment may be imposed to adequate legal assistance at all stages of the proceedings.
