The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area 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: (a) To abolish the death penalty completely and, in the meantime, to establish a moratorium on executions; (b) Progressively to restrict the number of offences for which the death penalty may be imposed and, at the least, not to extend its application to crimes to which it does not at present apply; 76