A/HRC/41/7 38.139 Continue to strengthen efforts to reduce poverty and improve health facilities, including access to health services for people, especially vulnerable groups such as women, children, the elderly, people with disabilities and ethnic minorities (Brunei Darussalam); 38.140 Initiate a moratorium on the imposition of capital punishment, especially for non-violent crimes (Finland); Consider implementing a full moratorium on the death penalty (Georgia); Impose a moratorium on executions and abolish the death penalty (Iceland); Establish a de facto moratorium on the death penalty with a view to its abolition (Portugal); Establish a moratorium on the application of the death penalty as a step towards its definitive abolition and modify the Penal Code to reduce the number of crimes for which capital punishment can be imposed (Spain); Impose a moratorium on executions with the goal of abolishing the death penalty (Albania); Establish a moratorium on the death penalty as a step towards the complete abolition of this practice (Australia); Immediately adopt a moratorium on the death penalty with a view to ultimately abolishing it (Austria); Take the necessary measures to establish a moratorium on executions of death row prisoners as well as to repeal the death penalty in national legislation (Argentina); 38.141 Abolish the death penalty and, without delay, reduce the number of offences punishable by the death penalty (France); Abolish definitively the death penalty and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Luxembourg); Continue reform towards abolition of the death penalty, including by continuing to reduce the list of crimes punishable by the death penalty, in particular non-violent crimes, under the Penal Code of 2015 and by providing greater transparency about the numbers, methods and associated crimes relating to its use (New Zealand); Abolish the death penalty for all crimes, and consider ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Uruguay); 38.142 Further reduce the list of offences punishable by death, eliminate the death penalty for “activities against the people’s government”, “espionage”, “embezzlement”, and “taking bribes” as well as for serious drug offences (Germany); Continue to reduce the number of crimes subject to the death penalty and consider introducing a de facto moratorium on its application (Mexico); Continue to reduce the scope of crimes subject to the death penalty to only the “most serious crimes” and consider introducing a moratorium (Norway); Continue the process of reducing offences subject to the death penalty until the abolition of capital punishment and publish statistics on the use of the death penalty in Viet Nam (Romania); Further reduce the offences punishable by the death penalty, provide official figures regarding death sentences and executions and consider introducing a moratorium on the death penalty (Italy); 38.143 Reduce further the list of crimes punishable by the death penalty, in particular economic crimes and drug-related offences, and envisage a complete moratorium on the application of the death penalty (Switzerland); 38.144 Assist the process of national discussion on the death penalty with a view to its eventual abolishment (Ukraine); 38.145 Immediately release prisoners who have been arbitrarily or unlawfully detained, including Ho Duc Hoa, Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, Tran Thi Nga, Nguyen Bac Truyen and the members of the Brotherhood for Democracy, and allow them to exercise their human rights and fundamental freedoms in Viet Nam (United States of America); 38.146 Restrict the use of the death penalty to crimes that meet the threshold of “most serious crimes” under international law (Belgium); 14

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