The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area–Background Paper 2017 • • Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Protocol 13 to the European Convention on Human Rights, if they have not yet done so; and For all OSCE participating States, to encourage debate on the abolition of the death penalty both at the national and international level. Relevant Recommendations made at the 2014 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting During the 2014 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, held in Warsaw from 22 September to 3 October 2014, issues of the abolition of capital punishment, prevention of torture and the protection of human rights in the fight against terrorism were discussed at the Working Session 4: Rule of Law I. Participants made the following recommendations: • For OSCE participating States that still retain the death penalty, to introduce moratoriums on the death penalty; • For OSCE participating States that have in place a moratorium on the death penalty, to abolish it from the law; and • For all OSCE participating States to respond to the ODIHR questionnaires on the state of the death penalty. Relevant Recommendations made at the 2015 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting During the 2015 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, held in Warsaw from xx September to xx October 2015, issues of the abolition of capital punishment, prevention of torture and the protection of human rights in the fight against terrorism were discussed at the Working Session 8: Rule of Law. Participants made the following recommendations: To OSCE participating States, • To abolish the death penalty in all circumstances; • Do not reintroduce the death penalty once it has been abolished; • Do not reintroduce the death penalty once it has been abolished; • Work to update OSCE commitments concerning the use of capital punishment; To OSCE institutions, executive structures and field operations, • The OSCE should update its commitments on the use of capital punishment. 102