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At Italy's instigation, a resolution for a moratorium on the death penalty was presented by the European Union in partnership with eight co-author member States to the General Assembly of the United Nations, calling for general suspension (not abolition) of capital punishment throughout the world.
The Optional Protocol commits its members to the abolition of the death penalty within their borders, though Article 2.1 allows parties to make a reservation allowing execution "in time of war pursuant to a conviction for a most serious crime of a military nature committed during wartime" (Brazil, Chile, El Salvador). [2]
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In 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018, Burkina Faso voted in favor of the seven United Nations General Assembly Resolutions for a death penalty moratorium, and in 2018, Burkina Faso was a co-sponsor to the Resolution for a moratorium, participated in the Universal Periodic Review of the United Nations Human Rights Council, and ...
South Sudan became independent in 2011 and has consistently failed to ban executions despite voting in favor of two United Nations resolutions that would put in place a moratorium on the death penalty. [2] [3] In its first year of independence in 2011, South Sudan was reported to have carried out five executions while another 150 were on death ...
The work with the United Nations also involves drafting of several resolutions, such as the moratorium on the death penalty, which was approved by the Human Rights Council in 2015, and is presented to the United Nations General Assembly every two years following Switzerland's support for the document in 2007. [21]
Chile has actively supported the United Nations Moratorium on the death penalty since 2007 and has consistently voted in its favor. Additionally, Chile is a signatory to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights , which aims for the global abolition of capital punishment. [ 4 ]
1 (2%) maintains the death penalty in both law and practice. 1 (2%) permits its use for ordinary crimes, [clarification needed] but has not used it for at least 10 years and is believed to have a policy or established practice of not carrying out executions. 47 (96%) have completely abolished it.