The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area–Background Paper 2018 15) What measures are taken by your country to protect children who have a parent facing the death penalty in your respective country and abroad? a) Is there any specialist support provided to children of parents sentenced to death or executed? b) What kind of technical and legal assistance or consular representation are provided to persons sentenced to death abroad taking into consideration the best interest of the child? c) Does your country provide any assistance (financial, practical and/or psychological) to families and in particular children of parents sentenced to death also with regard to the right to family visits and communication with death row prisoners in order to reduce trauma and anxiety and to help maintain a positive relationship with convicted parents? 16) Please list all cases regarding the use of the death penalty that have been decided in the reporting period (1 April 2017 - 31 March 2018), or are currently ongoing, before international bodies (eg. UN Human Rights Committee, International Court of Justice). 17) Please describe procedures for complying with interim stays by the UN Human Rights Committee. SAFEGUARDS 18) What safeguards are in place in your country to protect pregnant women, children and persons with mental disabilities facing the death penalty? 19) What safeguards are in place to minimize the risk that gender bias, or any other form of bias, may affect the decisions to impose death sentences? 20) What safeguards are in place to minimize the risk that gender bias, or any other form of bias, may affect the decisions on clemency? 21) Please describe if there have been any changes in the procedure for informing all non-nationals who have been accused of committing a crime, for which the death penalty is a potential sentence, of their right to receive consular assistance. Is this procedure mandatory? MISCELLANEOUS 22) Which state body is responsible for keeping statistics on sentences, executions and commutations? 102