Death penalty | OHCHR
网页2024年3月14日 · 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 growing consensus for universal abolition of the death penalty. Some 170 States have abolished or introduced a moratorium on the death penalty either in law or in practice.
HC: Death penalty should be abolished in the 21st century
网页2023年4月3日 · In short, the death penalty is, in our common experience, an atavistic relic from the past that should be shed in the 21st century. “. Volker Türk, High Commissioner for Human Rights. The African region is working hard to shed this relic, according to Idrissa Sow, Chairperson of the Working Group on Death Penalty, Extrajudicial, Summary or ...
UN experts call for universal abolition of the death penalty
网页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, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Alice Jill Edwards, reiterated their call for the complete abolition of the death penalty. Ahead of the 21st World Day …
Death penalty incompatible with right to life | OHCHR
网页31 January 2024. The infliction of the death penalty is profoundly difficult to reconcile with human dignity, the fundamental right to life, and the right to live free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, said UN Human Rights Chief, Volker Türk. “The use of the death penalty is egregious against any human ...
Human Rights Council Holds Biennial High-Level Panel Discussion …
网页MORNING 23 February 2021 High Commissioner for Human Rights: There is no Evidence that the Death Penalty Deters Crime More Effectively than any other Punishment The Human Rights Council this morning held its biennial high-level panel discussion on the question of the death penalty, with a focus on human rights violations related to the use …
Death penalty: The international framework | OHCHR
网页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 capital punishment by any State Party to the present Covenant.”. Safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death ...
Death penalty disproportionately affects the poor, UN rights …
网页2017年10月6日 · World Day Against the Death Penalty – Tuesday 10 October 2017. GENEVA (6 October 2017) – United Nations human rights experts* are calling for urgent action to end the disproportionate impact of the death penalty on people from poorer communities. They say imposing the death penalty as a result of discrimination …
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网页2020年10月15日 · In Pakistan, there have been calls for public hanging and castration, and across many other countries there have been calls for the death penalty. “The main argument being made for the death penalty is for it to deter rape – but in fact there is no evidence that the death penalty deters crime more than other forms of punishment.
“PATHWAYS TO MORATORIUM ON THE USE OF THE DEATH …
网页2022年9月23日 · Excellencies, Distinguished panellists, Ladies and gentlemen, Allow me to begin by thanking the organizers of this high-level side event to mark the 15th anniversary of the adoption of the first General Assembly resolution on a …
Moving away from the death penalty: Arguments, Trends and …
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