36/L.37 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-sponsors2
GE.17-16868(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 sixteenth preambular paragraph should read
Strongly deploring the fact that the use of the death penalty may in some cases lead
to violations of the human rights of the persons facing the death penalty and of other
affected persons,
* State not a member of the Human Rights Council.