Secretary-General – report on the question of the death penalty (63rd session of the Human Rights Council, September 2026)
Reviews 2024 execution data (1,518 recorded executions, up 32% on 2023) with analysis of protected persons – minors, women, persons with mental disabilities, and children of condemned parents. Focuses particularly on drug-related executions (637 in 2024, 42% of the global known total) as a structural violation of the ICCPR’s “most serious crimes” threshold. References Zimbabwe’s December 2024 abolition and Zambia’s ratification of the Second Optional Protocol. Calls for drug offence exclusions, mandatory mental health assessments, and disaggregated data on children of condemned persons.
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