The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area–Background Paper 2018 Relevant Recommendations made at the 2017 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting To OSCE participating States: • To ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) concerning the abolition of the death penalty, and all other related international human rights instruments in this field; • To introduce a moratorium on executions and death sentences with a view to the complete abolition of the death penalty; • To support the UN General Assembly Resolution calling for a global moratorium on the death penalty; 96