The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area–Background Paper 2018
standards, as set out in the annex to Economic and Social Council resolution
1984/50 of 25 May 1984, as well as to provide the Secretary-General with information in this regard;
(b) To make available relevant information with regard to their use of the death penalty, which can contribute to possible informed and transparent national debates;
(c) To progressively restrict the use of the death penalty and to reduce the number
of offences for which it may be imposed;
(d) To establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death
penalty;
4. Calls upon States which have abolished the death penalty not to reintroduce it,
and encourages them to share their experience in this regard;
5. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session on the implementation of the present resolution;
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United Nations General Assembly Resolution 67/176:
Moratorium on the use of the death penalty
(2012)
The General Assembly,
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Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child,
Reaffirming its resolutions 62/149 of 18 December 2007, 63/168 of 18 December
2008 and 65/206 of 21 December 2010 on the question of a moratorium on the use
of the death penalty, in which the General Assembly called upon States that still
maintain the death penalty to establish a moratorium on executions with a view
to abolishing it,
Welcoming Human Rights Council decision 18/117 of 28 September 2011,
Mindful that any miscarriage or failure of justice in the implementation of the death
penalty is irreversible and irreparable,
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