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The administration of justice and the human rights of detainees : elaboration of a 2nd Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty

Publisher UN Commission on Human Rights
Author UN Commission on Human Rights (41st sess. : 1985 : Geneva)
Publication Date 14 March 1985
Citation / Document Symbol E/CN.4/RES/1985/46
Reference 41
Cite as UN Commission on Human Rights, The administration of justice and the human rights of detainees : elaboration of a 2nd Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty, 14 March 1985, E/CN.4/RES/1985/46, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3b00f03918.html [accessed 8 June 2023]

1985/46. The administration of justice and the human rights of detainees Elaboration of a second optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death Penalty[1]132

The Commission on Human Rights.

Recalling its resolution 1984/19 of 6 March 1984 in which it invited the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities to consider the idea of elaborating a draft of a second optional protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and to submit its views thereon to the Commission at its forty-first session,

Having examined the report of the Sub-Commission on the work of its thirty-seven[2]133

Recommends the following draft resolution to the Economic and Social Council for adoption:

[For the text, see chap. I, sect. A, draft resolution V.]



[1]132 Adopted at the 57th meeting, on 14 March 1985, without a vote. See chap. XVIII.

[2]133 E/CN.4/1985/3.

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