Death penalty | OHCHR
Jan 2, 2025 · The use of the death penalty is not consistent with the right to life and the right to live free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. There is …
Death penalty incompatible with right to life | OHCHR
Jan 31, 2024 · The infliction of the death penalty is incompatible with the right to life and is difficult to reconcile with the right to live free of torture. The UN has historically opposed it and works …
HC: Death penalty should be abolished in the 21st century
Apr 3, 2023 · Civil society organizations pave the road to end capital punishment in Chad Our Work The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is the leading United Nations …
Growing global trend calling for an end to capital punishment
Mar 27, 2014 · Kirk Bloodsworth, Director of Advocacy at Witness to Innocence, gave a moving testimony of his own experience of the capital punishment system of the United States. …
UN experts call for universal abolition of the death penalty
GENEVA (9 October 2023) – The UN Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Morris Tidball-Binz, and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, …
Death penalty: The international framework | OHCHR
Although Article 6 of the ICCPR permits the use of the death penalty in limited circumstances, it also provides that “nothing in this article shall be invoked to delay or to prevent the abolition of …
Safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing …
Capital punishment may only be carried out pursuant to a final judgement rendered by a competent court after legal process which gives all possible safeguards to ensure a fair trial, at …
UN human rights official underscores effects of death penalty on …
Sep 22, 2016 · Capital punishment affects an array of people, including convicted persons, the family members of both victims and perpetrators, and even people involved in criminal …
In Dialogue with Qatar, Experts of the Human Rights Committee …
01 March 2022. The Committee on Human Rights today concluded its review of the initial periodic report of Qatar on measures taken to implement the provisions of the International Covenant …
Capital punishment and the implementation of the safeguards ...
Aug 22, 2017 · Reports. A/75/561: 2020 report of the Secretary-General: A global call for concrete action for the total elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related …