36/L.38 The question of the death penalty
Document Type: Amendment Resolution
Date: 2017 Sep
Session: 36th Regular Session (2017 Sep)
Agenda Item: Item3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development
- Main sponsors1
- Co-sponsors1
GE.17-16869(E)
Human Rights Council Thirty-sixth session
11–29 September 2017
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Russian Federation:* amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/36/L.6
36/… The question of the death penalty
The seventeenth preambular paragraph should read
Taking note of the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights on the high-level panel discussion on the question of the death penalty,1 during
which it was noted that, in some cases, imposing the death penalty leads to torture or other
cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,
* State not a member of the Human Rights Council. 1 A/HRC/36/27.