36/L.62 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-sponsors18
GE.17-16888(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
Azerbaijan,* Bahrain,* Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam,* China, Egypt, Iran (Islamic
Republic of),* Kuwait,* Malaysia,* Maldives,* Morocco,* Nigeria, Oman,* Pakistan,*
Saudi Arabia, Singapore,* United Arab Emirates: amendment to draft resolution
A/HRC/36/L.6
36/… The question of the death penalty
After paragraph 1, insert a new paragraph reading
1 bis. Reaffirms the sovereign right of all States to develop their own legal systems,
including determining appropriate legal penalties, in accordance with their international law
obligations;
* State not a member of the Human Rights Council.