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30.
Calls upon relevant special procedures of the Human Rights Council to pay
special attention to questions relating to the effective protection of human rights in the
administration of justice, including juvenile justice and the human rights of persons
deprived of their liberty, and the causes and effects of overincarceration and overcrowding,
and to provide, wherever appropriate, specific recommendations in this regard, including
proposals for advisory services and technical assistance measures;
31.
Invites States, when reviewing progress made in the implementation of the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, to consider the causes and effects of
overincarceration and overcrowding, including with regard to non-discrimination and
persons with increased vulnerability in the administration of justice;
32.
Calls upon the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to
strengthen advisory services and technical assistance relating to national capacity-building
in the field of the administration of justice, in particular juvenile justice;
33.
Requests the High Commissioner to submit to the Human Rights Council, at
its forty-second session, a report on human rights in the administration of justice, in
particular on violence, death and serious injury in situations of deprivation of liberty,
drawing on the experience of United Nations and regional human rights mechanisms and
seeking the views of States, including on their policies and best practices, civil society, and
other relevant stakeholders;
34.
Decides to continue its consideration of this issue under the same agenda
item, in accordance with its annual programme of work.
40th meeting
29 September 2017
[Adopted without a vote.]
36/17.
The question of the death penalty
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights and all other relevant international human rights instruments, and
reaffirming that all States must implement their obligations under international human
rights law,
Recalling also the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty,
Recalling further General Assembly resolutions 62/149 of 18 December 2007,
63/168 of 18 December 2008, 65/206 of 21 December 2010, 67/176 of 20 December 2012,
69/186 of 18 December 2014 and 71/187 of 19 December 2016 on the question of a
moratorium on the use of the death penalty,
Reaffirming the safeguards guaranteeing the protection of persons facing the death
penalty set out in the annex to Economic and Social Council resolution 1984/50 of 25 May
1984, and the provisions regarding the implementation of the guidelines contained in
Council resolutions 1989/64 of 24 May 1989 and 1996/15 of 23 July 1996,
Recalling all resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights on the question of the
death penalty, the last of which was resolution 2005/59 of 20 April 2005,
Recalling also Human Rights Council decision 18/117 of 28 September 2011 on
reporting by the Secretary-General on the question of the death penalty, Council resolution
22/11 of 21 March 2013 on a panel on the human rights of children of parents sentenced to
the death penalty or executed, Council decision 22/117 of 21 March 2013 on a high-level
panel discussion on the question of the death penalty and Council resolutions 26/2 of 26
June 2014 and 30/5 of 1 October 2015 on the question of the death penalty,
Taking note of the reports of the Secretary-General on the question of the death
penalty, in the latest of which the Secretary-General examined the disproportionate impact
of the use of the death penalty on poor or economically vulnerable individuals, foreign
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