The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area–Background Paper 2018
5. Requests the Secretary-General to dedicate the 2017 supplement to his quinquennial report on capital punishment to the consequences arising at various
stages of the imposition and application of the death penalty on the enjoyment of
the human rights of the persons facing the death penalty and other affected persons, paying specific attention to the right to equality and non-discrimination, including on foreign nationals, and to present it to the Human Rights Council at its
thirty-sixth session;
6. Decides that the upcoming biennial high-level panel to be held at the thirty
fourth session of the Human Rights Council will address the human rights violations related to the use of the death penalty, in particular with respect to the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;
7. Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
to organize the panel discussion and to liaise with States, relevant United Nations
bodies, agencies, treaty bodies, special procedures and regional human rights
mechanisms, as well as with parliamentarians, civil society, including non-governmental organizations, and national human rights institutions, with a view to
ensuring their participation in the panel discussion;
8. Also requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a summary report on
the panel discussion and to submit it to the Human Rights Council at its thirty sixth
session;
United Nations Human Rights Council Resolution 36/17:
The question of the death penalty
(29 September 2017)
[…]
Recalling general recommendation No. 35 on gender-based violence against
women recently adopted by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination
against Women, in which the Committee recommended that States parties to the
Convention repeal all criminal provisions that affect women disproportionally, including those resulting in the discriminatory application of the death penalty to
women,
Recalling also general recommendation No. 31 of the Committee on the Elimination
of Racial Discrimination on the prevention of racial discrimination in the administration and functioning of the criminal justice system,
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