A/RES/75/183
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
28 December 2020
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 72 (b)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human
rights questions, including alternative approaches for
improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 December 2020
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/75/478/Add.2, para. 89)]
75/183.
Moratorium on the use of the death penalty
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles contained in the Charter of the United
Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 2 and the Convention on the Rights of the
Child, 3
Recalling the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, 4 and in this regard
welcoming the increasing number of accessions to and ratifications of the Second
Optional Protocol,
Recalling also its resolutions 62/149 of 18 December 2007, 63/168 of
18 December 2008, 65/206 of 21 December 2010, 67/176 of 20 December 2012,
69/186 of 18 December 2014, 71/187 of 19 December 2016 and 73/175 of
17 December 2018 on the question of a moratorium on the use of the death penalty,
in which the General Assembly called upon States that still maintain the death penalty
to establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing it,
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 1642, No. 14668.
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