The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area–Background Paper 2018 Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child and of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty; 2. Condemns the continuing application of the death penalty on the basis of any discriminatory legislation, policies or practices; 3. Condemns also cases in which women are subjected to the death penalty on the basis of gender-discriminatory legislation, policies or practices and the disproportionate use of the death penalty against persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities; […] 5. Calls upon all States that still maintain the death penalty: (a) To abolish the death penalty completely and, in the meantime, to establish a moratorium on executions; (b) Progressively to restrict the number of offences for which the death penalty may be imposed and, at the least, not to extend its application to crimes to which it does not at present apply; (c) To make available to the public information with regard to the imposition of the death penalty and to any scheduled execution; (d) To provide to the Secretary-General and relevant United Nations bodies information relating to the use of capital punishment and the observance of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty; 6. Calls upon all States parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights that have not yet done so to consider acceding to or ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the Covenant, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty; 7. Urges all States that still maintain the death penalty: (a) Not to impose it for crimes committed by persons below 18 years of age; (b) To exclude pregnant women and mothers with dependent infants from capital punishment; (c) Not to impose the death penalty on a person suffering from any mental or intellectual disabilities or to execute any such person; (d) Not to impose the death penalty for any but the most serious crimes and only pursuant to a final judgement rendered by an independent and impartial competent 66