Panel on the Human Rights of Children of Parents Sentenced to the Death Penalty or Executed

A/HRC/RES/22/11View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2013.

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

6 reports · 2014–2024

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2024	A/HRC/57/26	Question of the death penalty report of the Secretary-General	A/HRC/RES/22/11
2022	A/HRC/51/7	Question of the death penalty report of the Secretary-General	A/HRC/RES/22/11
2020	A/HRC/45/20	Question of the death penalty report of the Secretary-General	A/HRC/RES/22/11
2018	A/HRC/39/19	Question of the death penalty report of the Secretary-General	A/HRC/RES/22/11
2016	A/HRC/33/20	Question of the death penalty report of the Secretary-General	A/HRC/RES/22/11

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Capital Punishment Conferences Prisoners' Families Rights of the Child

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Acknowledges the negative impact of a parent’s death sentence and his or her execution on his or her children, and urges States to provide those children with the protection and assistance they may require;

Calls upon States to provide those children or, where appropriate, giving due consideration to the best interests of the child, another member of the family, with access to their parents and to all relevant information about the situation of their parents;

Decides to convene, at its twenty-fourth session, a panel discussion on the human rights of children of parents sentenced to the death penalty or executed, with a particular focus on the ways and means to ensure the full enjoyment of their rights;

Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to organize the panel discussion and to liaise with States, relevant United Nations bodies, agencies, treaty bodies, special procedures and regional human rights mechanisms, as well as with civil society, including non-governmental organizations, and national human rights institutions, with a view to ensuring their contribution to the panel discussion;

Also requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a report on the outcome of the panel discussion in the form of a summary, and to present it to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-fifth session;

Decides that the yearly supplement to the quinquennial report of the Secretary-General on the question of the death penalty, mandated by Human Rights Council decision 18/117 of 28 September 2011, will continue to inform on this matter.

  The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its twenty-second session (A/HRC/22/2), chap. I.

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