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United Nations: Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty

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International Legal Materials , Volume 29 , Issue 6 , November 1990 , pp. 1464 - 1469
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1990

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* [U.N. General Assembly Resolution 44/128, adopting the Second Optional Protocol, was approved December 15, 1989, by a vote of 59 in favor to 26 against, with 48 abstentions. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the First Optional Protocol, both having entered into force March 23, 1976, appear at 6 I.L.M. 368 (1967).

[As of November 30, 1990, Australia had acceded (October 2, 1990) to the Second Optional Protocol, and the German Democratic Republic (August 16, 1990), New Zealand (February 22, 1990), Portugal (October 17, 1990) and Sweden (May 11, 1990) had ratified it. Signatories as of that date include: Belgium, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, Federal Republic of Germany, Honduras, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Romania, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela.

[The Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty, approved by the O.A.S. General Assembly on June 8, 1990, appears at 29 I.L.M. 1447 (1990).]

1/ E/CN.4/Sub.2/1987/20.

2/ A/36/441 and Add.l and 2, A/37/407 and Add.l and A/44/592 and Add.l.

3/ Resolution 217 A (III).

4/ See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.