United Nations report

Report of the Secretary General: Question of the death penalty 2024

By Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), on 16 July 2024

Clemency

Death Row Conditions

Fair Trial

Trend Towards Abolition


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Pursuant to Human Rights Council decision 18/117, the present report is submitted to update previous reports on the question of the death penalty. In the report, the SecretaryGeneral reaffirms the general trend towards universal abolition of the death penalty and highlights initiatives limiting its use and implementing safeguards guaranteeing the protection of the rights of those facing this penalty. Between July 2022 and June 2024, a minority of States continued to implement the death penalty, with some increasing their use considerably. Pursuant to Council resolution 22/11, the report includes information on the human rights of children of parents sentenced to the death penalty or executed.




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