The Prohibition of Torture and Ill-treatment in the African Human Rights System: A HANDBOOK FOR VICTIMS AND THEIR ADVOCATES under its mandate, which was published in 2012.603 As part of the drafting process, the Working Group organised two regional conferences on the issue of the death penalty in Kigali, Rwanda for Central Eastern and Southern Africa in 2009, and in Cotonou, Benin for North and West Africa in 2010. The regional conferences brought together representatives from States and civil society, and culminated in the adoption of the Kigali Framework Document on the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Africa and the Cotonou Framework Document Towards the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Africa.604 These framework documents provide detailed recommendations for the abolition of the death penalty in Africa, including the need for an African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Africa.605 The efforts of the Working Group have been relatively successful – in 2012, only five African countries reportedly carried out executions, indicative of States’ respect for the moratorium on the death penalty adopted by the African Commission during its Fourty-fourth Ordinary Session in 2008.606 603 ACHPR, Study on the Question of the Death Penalty in Africa, submitted by the Working Group on the Death Penalty in Africa in accordance with Resolution ACHPR/Res.79(XXXVIII)05, adopted by the ACHPR at 50th Ordinary Session (7 November 2011). 604 The Kigali Framework Document on the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Africa, adopted by the First Sub-Regional Conference for Central, Eastern and Southern Africa on the Question of the Death Penalty in Africa, 25 September 2009; The Cotonou Framework Document Towards the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Africa, adopted by the Second Regional Conference for North and West Africa on the Question of the Death Penalty in Africa,15 April 2010. 605 Ibid. 606 ACHPR, Resolution Calling on State Parties to Observe a Moratorium on the Death Penalty, ACHPR/ Res.136, 44th Ordinary Session (24th November 2008). 146