A/HRC/18/20 14 juveniles were executed in the last five years in Yemen, 11 juveniles are now on death row and 84 are at risk of the death penalty.29 IV. International developments 29. The international community continued its efforts toward the abolition of the death penalty during the reporting period. At the United Nations, the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council addressed the question of the death penalty. Human rights treaty bodies also continued to address this issue while examining State party reports and individual communications. United Nations agencies, offices, programmes and funds also continued to address the question of the death penalty in their programmes and activities. Intergovernmental regional bodies and NGOs also initiated several programmes towards abolishing the death penalty worldwide. A. General Assembly 30. On 21 December 2010, the General Assembly adopted resolution 65/206, its third on the question of a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, reaffirming previous Assembly resolutions 62/149 and 63/168. In the resolution, the General Assembly calls upon all States to respect international standards that provide safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty, and requests States to provide the Secretary-General with information in that regard. It also request States to make available relevant information with regard to their use of the death penalty, which can contribute to informed and transparent national debates; to progressively restrict the use of the death penalty and reduce the number of offences for which it may be imposed; and to establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty. The General Assembly also calls upon States that have abolished the death penalty not to reintroduce it, and encourages them to share their experience in that regard. Finally, it requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session on the implementation of the resolution.30 31. The General Assembly also addressed the question of the death penalty in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In its resolution 65/226, the Assembly expressed deep concern at the continuing high incidence of and dramatic increase in death sentences carried out in the absence of internationally recognized safeguards; and called upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to abolish, in law and in practice, public executions and other executions carried out in the absence of respect for internationally recognized safeguards. B. Universal periodic review 32. The Human Rights Council continued to address the question of the death penalty in the context of the universal periodic review. During its eighth session, the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review addressed the question of the death penalty in Belarus, Grenada, Guinea, Guyana and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Guyana committed 29 30 8 As cited in Child Rights Information Network, CRINMAIL 1209. Available from www.crin.org/email/crinmail_detail_popup.asp?crinmailID=3467. In a note verbale addressed to the Secretary-General dated 11 March 2011, 53 States Members of the United Nations expressed, inter alia, their “persistent objection to any attempt to impose a moratorium on the use of the death penalty or its abolition in contravention to existing stipulations under international law” (A/65/779).