The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; • Those OSCE participating States that are members of the Council of Europe and have not done so should ratify Protocol 6 and Protocol 13 to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; • OSCE participating States should ensure the implementation of the UN Commission on Human Rights Resolution 2005/59 on the Question of the Death Penalty; • OSCE participating States should fulfil recommendations of the UN Human Rights Committee in cases where it found violations of Article 6 of the ICCPR (right to life); • OSCE participating States should support the draft resolution on a moratorium and the abolition of the death penalty to be presented at the UN General Assembly; • Those OSCE participating States that have not yet done so should sign the Declaration Against the Death Penalty, which was read out on 19 December 2006 at the UN General Assembly and has so far been signed by nearly 100 UN member states, including 50 OSCE participating States; • Those OSCE participating States that still apply capital punishment should abide by international laws and standards to guarantee due process and most notably to inform other participating States, as well as their own citizens, about any death sentence, any final judgement imposing or confirming the death penalty, and any execution, including dates and names of those convicted or executed, the grounds for their conviction, and any other relevant circumstances in full; • The burial places of those executed should be disclosed; • OSCE participating States should allow NGOs and other observers, including the International Committee of the Red Cross, to visit prisons, including death row and execution chambers; • OSCE participating States should immediately investigate allegations of torture in pre-trial detention and in prisons and punish those responsible; • OSCE participating States should improve their prison conditions, with particular regard to death-row facilities and facilities for those serving life terms.