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inform detained foreign nationals of their right to consular notification pursuant to the Vienna
Convention on Consular Relations, resulting in the imposition of the death penalty, would
likely violate the right to life;
9.
Calls upon States that have not yet abolished the death penalty to make
available systematically and publicly full, accurate and relevant information, disaggregated
by gender, age, nationality, race, disability and other applicable criteria, with regard to their
use of the death penalty, inter alia, the charges, number of persons sentenced to death, the
number of persons on death row and the location of their detention, the number of executions
carried out and the number of death sentences reversed, commuted on appeal or in which
amnesty or pardon has been granted, as well as information on any scheduled execution,
which can contribute to possible informed and transparent national and international debates,
bearing in mind that access to reliable information on the imposition and application of the
death penalty enables national and international stakeholders to understand and assess the
scope of these practices, including about compliance with the obligations of States with
regard to the use of the death penalty;
10.
Requests the Secretary-General to dedicate the 2025 supplement to his
quinquennial report on capital punishment to the consequences arising at various stages of
the imposition and application of the death penalty on the enjoyment of the human rights of
persons facing the death penalty and other affected persons, paying specific attention to
equality of arms, the need to prevent miscarriage or failure of justice, and the irreversibility
of the death penalty, and to present it to the Human Rights Council for consideration at its
sixtieth session and to make it available in all languages before the session;
11.
Decides that the upcoming biennial high-level panel discussion to be held
during the fifty-eighth session of the Human Rights Council will address the contribution of
the judiciary to the advancement of human rights and the question of the death penalty;
12.
Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights to organize the high-level panel discussion and to liaise with States, relevant United
Nations bodies, agencies, treaty bodies, special procedures and regional human rights
mechanisms, as well as with parliamentarians, civil society, including non-governmental
organizations, and national human rights institutions with a view to ensuring their
participation in the panel discussion, and to make the biennial panel discussion fully
accessible;
13.
Also requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a summary
report on the panel discussion, also in an accessible format, and to submit it to the Human
Rights Council at its sixtieth session;
14.
Decides to continue its consideration of this issue in accordance with its
programme of work.
49th meeting
13 October 2023
[Adopted by a recorded vote of 28 to 11, with 7 abstentions. The voting was as follows:
In favour:
Argentina, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Chile, Costa Rica,
Côte d’Ivoire, Czechia, Finland, France, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Honduras,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico,
Montenegro, Nepal, Paraguay, Romania, South Africa, Ukraine, United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Uzbekistan
Against:
Bangladesh, Cameroon, China, India, Maldives, Pakistan, Qatar, Somalia,
Sudan, United Arab Emirates and United States of America
Abstaining:
Algeria, Eritrea, Gambia, Malawi, Morocco, Senegal and Viet Nam]
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