The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
Annex 1
OSCE Commitments
Document of the Sixteenth Meeting of the Ministerial Council
(Helsinki 2008)
We stress that everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person; no one
shall be held in slavery, and no one shall be subjected to torture or cruel inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment.
Budapest Document: Towards a Genuine Partnership in a New Era
(Budapest 1994)
Capital Punishment
19. The participating States reconfirm their commitments in the Copenhagen and
Moscow Documents concerning the question of capital punishment.
Helsinki Document: The Challenges of Change
(Helsinki 1992)
The participating States
(58) Confirm their commitments in the Copenhagen and Moscow Documents concerning the question of capital punishment.
Document of the Moscow Meeting of the Conference on the Human
Dimension of the CSCE
(Moscow 1991)
(36) The participating States recall their commitment in the Vienna Concluding
Document to keep the question of capital punishment under consideration and reaffirm their undertakings in the Document of the Copenhagen Meeting to exchange
information on the question of the abolition of the death penalty and to make available to the public information regarding the use of the death penalty.
(36.1) They note
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