The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area–Background Paper 2017 f) 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? 19) Please list all cases regarding the use of the death penalty that have been decided in the reporting period (1 April 2016 - 31 March 2017), or are currently ongoing, before international bodies (eg. UN Human Rights Committee, International Court of Justice). 20) Please list the number, age, gender and race / ethnicity of any persons who have been executed whilst a procedure regarding their case was ongoing before an international body. SAFEGUARDS 28) What safeguards are in place to protect children who have a parent facing the death penalty in your country and abroad (relevant to nationals of your country)? 21) What safeguards are in place in your country to protect pregnant women, children and persons with mental disabilities facing the death penalty? 22) 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? 23) What safeguards are in place to minimize the risk that gender bias, or any other form of bias, may affect the decisions on clemency? 24) 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 25) Which state body is responsible for keeping statistics on sentences, executions and commutations? 29) Please indicate ways in which you have co-operated with local and international organizations on this issue of the death penalty in the period from 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017 End of Questionnaire 112