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High Commissioner for Human Rights Calls on States that Have Not Yet Done So to Establish Moratoriums on the Death Penalty and Work Towards its Abolition
28 February 2023
Statement by Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
at the High-level meeting on Leadership and Moving Away from the Death Penalty - 69th Session of the General Assembly
The Human Rights Council this morning held its biennial high-level panel discussion on the question of the death penalty. The theme of this year’s panel was “Human rights violations relating to the use of the death penalty, in particular with respect to limiting the death penalty to the most serious crimes”.
Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said for many years, the United Nations had opposed the death penalty in all circumstances. Ultimately, this was about the United Nations Charter’s promise of the highest standards of protection of all human beings. Infliction by the State of the death penalty - the most severe and irreversible of punishments - was profoundly difficult to reconcile with human dignity, and with the fundamental right to life. Mr. Türk called on States that had not yet done so to take a strong lead by restricting the use of the death penalty, establishing moratoriums and working towards its abolition, noting that until every nation abolished the death penalty, the road to defending human dignity would never be fully complete."
https://www.ohchr.org/en/news/2023/02/hi...20complete.
"Welcome to the United Nations
Resources
High Commissioner for Human Rights Calls on States that Have Not Yet Done So to Establish Moratoriums on the Death Penalty and Work Towards its Abolition
28 February 2023
Statement by Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
at the High-level meeting on Leadership and Moving Away from the Death Penalty - 69th Session of the General Assembly
The Human Rights Council this morning held its biennial high-level panel discussion on the question of the death penalty. The theme of this year’s panel was “Human rights violations relating to the use of the death penalty, in particular with respect to limiting the death penalty to the most serious crimes”.
Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said for many years, the United Nations had opposed the death penalty in all circumstances. Ultimately, this was about the United Nations Charter’s promise of the highest standards of protection of all human beings. Infliction by the State of the death penalty - the most severe and irreversible of punishments - was profoundly difficult to reconcile with human dignity, and with the fundamental right to life. Mr. Türk called on States that had not yet done so to take a strong lead by restricting the use of the death penalty, establishing moratoriums and working towards its abolition, noting that until every nation abolished the death penalty, the road to defending human dignity would never be fully complete."
https://www.ohchr.org/en/news/2023/02/hi...20complete.