The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area–Background Paper 2017
(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 SecretaryGeneral 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
as contained in Economic and Social Council resolution 1984/50;
6.
Calls upon States that no longer apply the death penalty but maintain it in
their legislation to abolish it;
7.
Requests States that have received a request for extradition on a capital
charge to reserve explicitly the right to refuse extradition in the absence of effective assurances from relevant authorities of the requesting State that capital
punishment will not be carried out, and calls upon States to provide such effective
assurances if requested to do so;
[…]
United Nations Commission on Human Rights Resolution 2005/59 on the
question of the death penalty
(2005)
The Commission on Human Rights,
1. Expresses its concern at the continuing use of the death penalty around the world,
alarmed in particular at its application after trials that do not conform to international standards of fairness and that several countries impose the death penalty
in disregard of the limitations set out in the International Covenant on Civil and
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:
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