The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area–Background Paper 2017 with the Council of Europe, to conduct awareness-raising activities against recourse to the death penalty, particularly with the media, law enforcement officials, policy-makers and the general public; 53. Further encourages the activities of non-governmental organizations working for the abolition of the death penalty; 54. Commits to monitoring the issue of the death penalty and to considering possible initiatives and ad hoc missions in retentionist countries, so as to urge government authorities to adopt a moratorium on executions with a view to completely abolishing them. OSCE Parliamentary Assembly 24th Annual Session (Helsinki, 5-9 July 2015) Declaration, Recalling the Spirit of Helsinki Chapter III, Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions 98. Affirming the right of and responsibility for OSCE participating States to speak out when abuses take place in other OSCE participating States, including in cases of politically motivated imprisonment, imposition of the death penalty, discriminatory treatment, including that of migrants, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and refugees, and actions against journalists and human rights defenders, […] 117. Calls upon the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and the Representative on Freedom of the Media to continue to speak out publicly when rights are abused, including in cases of politically motivated imprisonment, imposition of the death penalty, discriminatory treatment including that of migrants and refugees and actions against journalists and human rights defenders; […] 138. Considers the death penalty to be an inhuman and degrading punishment, an act of torture unacceptable to states respecting human rights, and calls on retentionist states to impose an immediate moratorium on executions; 47