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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);
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