Panel Discussion on the Death Penalty - 4th Meeting, 52nd Regular Session Human Rights Council

Biennial high-level panel discussion on the question of the death penalty - Theme: Human rights violations relating to the use of the death penalty, in particular with respect to limiting the death penalty to the most serious crimes

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Chair:

H.E. Mr. Václav Bálek, President of the Human Rights Council

Opening statements:

Mr. Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Mr. Idrissa Sow, Chairperson of the Working Group on Death Penalty, Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Killings and Enforced Disappearances in Africa of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights

Panellists:

H.E. Ms. Azalina Othman Said, Minister of Law and Institutional Reform of Malaysia and H.E. Mr. Ahmad Faisal Muhamad, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Malaysia to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva (Concluding Remarks)
Mr. José Manuel Santos Pais, Member of the Human Rights Committee
Ms. Mai Sato, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at Monash University, Director of Eleos Justice, and Deputy Director of CrimeInfo
Ms. Sarah Belal, Executive Director of Justice Project Pakistan

SPEAKERS:

Ms. Hadja Lahbib, Minister for Foreign Affairs, European Affairs and Foreign Trade and the Federal Cultural Institutions of Belgium (on behalf of a group of States)
Mr. João Gomes Cravinho, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portugal
Mr. Tim Watts, Assistant Foreign Minister of Australia (on behalf of a group of countries)
Costa Rica (on behalf of a group of countries), Mr. Christian Guillermet
Mr. Eamon Gilmore, European Union Special Representative for Human Rights
Ms. Candith Kwati Mashengo-Dlamini, Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa
Ms. Angeles Moreno Bau, Secretary of State for Foreign and Global Affairs of Spain
Ms. Bibata Nebie Ouedraogo, Minister of Justice and Human Rights of Burkina Faso
Mr. Giorgio Silli, Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy
Mr. Christian Guillermet, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica
Singapore (on behalf of a group of countries), Mr. Umej Singh Bhatia
Switzerland (on behalf of a group of countries), Ms. Barbara Fontana
Ensemble contre la Peine de Mort, Mr. Raphael Chenuil-Hazan
International Federation of ACAT (Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture), Ms. Marie Salphati
Center for Global Nonkilling, Mr. Christophe Barbey
Argentina (on behalf of a group of Countries), Mr. Federico Villegas
Mr. Marcy Lopes, Minister of justice and human rights of Angola (on behalf of Portuguese Language Countries)
Oman (on behalf of Gulf Cooperation Council Group), Mr. Idris AL Khanjari
Finland (on behalf of a group of States), Ms. Kirsti Kauppi
Sierra Leone, Mr. Lansana Gberie
Togo, Mr. Togbé Agbessi Alangue
Zambia, Ms. Eunice Luambia
France, Ms. Emmanuelle Lachaussée
Cameroon, Mr. Salomon Eheth
Iraq, Mr. Omer Berzini
Egypt, Ms. Sarah Elkady
Libya, Ms. Lamia Fathi Abusedra
International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA), Ms. Naomi Burke-Shyne
International Lesbian and Gay Association, Mr. Gabriel Galil
International Bar Association, Ms. Catherine Kent
Mr. Ahmad Faisal Muhamad, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Malaysia to the UNOG
Mr. José Manuel Santos Pais, Member of the Human Rights Committee
Ms. Mai Sato, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at Monash University, Director of Eleos Justice, and Deputy Director of CrimeInfo
Ms. Sarah Belal, Executive Director of Justice Project Pakistan

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