A/HRC/42/28 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 28 August 2019 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-second session 9–27 September 2019 Agenda items 2 and 3 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Capital punishment and the implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty Yearly supplement of the Secretary-General to his quinquennial report on capital punishment* Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to resolution 36/17 of the Human Rights Council. The report examines 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. It pays specific attention to the impact of the resumption of the use of the death penalty on human rights. * The present report was submitted late to conference services as a result of administrative constraints. GE.19-14657(E) 