A/HRC/45/20 the object and purpose of article 6 of the Covenant for State parties to take steps to increase de facto the rate of use of and the extent to which they resort to the death penalty.53 18. Several laws were adopted providing for the death penalty or extending its use: in Bangladesh and China for drug-related offences,54 in Egypt for funding terrorism55 and drug offences,56 in Ethiopia for acts of terrorism, 57 in India for rape of girls younger than 12 years old58 and sexual offences against children,59 and in Nigeria for kidnapping and cattle rustling.60 In the United States, the States of Alabama and Tennessee expanded the death penalty.61 19. Officials in the Philippines 62 and Turkey 63 stated that reintroduction of the death penalty was being considered. Some States resumed or sought to resume executions. India carried out its first executions in five years in 2020. In 2019, Bahrain and Bangladesh resumed executions after not carrying out any in 2018.64 It was also reported that executions were carried out in Taiwan Province of China, in 2018, for the first time since 2016.65 In 2019, the Attorney General of Indonesia stated plans to resume the use of the death penalty.66 The United States announced its intention to resume federal executions in 2019, after 16 years.67 20. The Human Rights Committee expressed concern about information that, in Nigeria, some states were considering reinstating executions. 68 The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed concern about steps taken by Sri Lanka to resume implementation of the death penalty after over 40 years of de facto moratorium.69 III. Information on the use of the death penalty 21. In its resolution 42/24, the Human Rights Council called upon States that had not yet abolished the death penalty to make available relevant information, disaggregated by gender, age, nationality and other applicable criteria, with regard to their use of the death penalty, which could contribute to possible informed and transparent national and international debates, including on the obligations of States with regard to the use of the death penalty. On the World Day against the Death Penalty in 2019, the European Union and the Council of Europe jointly recognized the importance of a fully informed public debate about the death penalty, and emphasized that the more people knew about the 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 6 Ibid., para. 50. CAT/C/BGD/CO/1, para. 50; www.incb.org/documents/Publications/AnnualReports/AR2019/Annual_Report_Chapters/AR2019_C hapter_III.pdf, para. 629. See www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25787&LangID=E; https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=25072% C2%A0%C2%A0. See www.hri.global/files/2020/02/28/HRI_DeathPenaltyReport2019.pdf A/HRC/44/49/Add.1, para. 27. See www.amnesty.org/en/documents/act50/9870/2019/en/, p. 21. See www.amnesty.org/en/documents/act50/1847/2020/en/, p. 25. Reportedly in Katsina (both crimes) and Taraba (kidnapping). See www.amnesty.org/en/documents/act50/1847/2020/en/, p. 49. See https://files.deathpenaltyinfo.org/reports/year-end/YearEndReport2019.pdf, p. 5. See www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1075720. See www.osce.org/odihr/430268?download=true, pp. 51–52. See www.amnesty.org/en/documents/act50/1847/2020/en/, p. 9. See www.amnesty.org/en/documents/act50/9870/2019/en/, p. 26. See www.thejakartapost.com/news/2019/10/27/rights-groups-decry-new-attorney-generals-plan-toresume-death-penalty.html. See www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-government-resume-capital-punishment-after-nearly-twodecade-lapse; www.oas.org/en/iachr/media_center/PReleases/2019/201.asp. CCPR/C/NGA/CO/2, para. 24. A/HRC/43/19, para. 35; https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=24686; https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=24049.