The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area–Background Paper 2017 to possible informed and transparent national and international debates, including on the obligations of States pertaining to the use of the death penalty; (c) To progressively restrict the use of the death penalty and not to impose capital punishment for offences committed by persons below 18 years of age and on pregnant women; (d) To reduce the number of offences for which the death penalty may be imposed; (e) To establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty; 5. Calls upon States which have abolished the death penalty not to reintroduce it, and encourages them to share their experience in this regard; 6. Calls upon States that have not yet done so to consider acceding to or ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty;4 7. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution; […] United Nations General Assembly Resolution 69/186: Moratorium on the use of the death penalty (2014) The General Assembly, […] Convinced that a moratorium on the use of the death penalty contributes to respect for human dignity and to the enhancement and progressive development of human rights, and considering that there is no conclusive evidence of the deterrent value of the death penalty, Noting ongoing local and national debates and regional initiatives on the death penalty, as well as the readiness of an increasing number of Member States to make available to the public information on the use of the death penalty, and also, in this regard, the decision by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 26/2 of 26 June 4  United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1642, No. 14668. 60