Gambia, Madagascar Ratify Second Optional Protocol

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Gambia signed the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty on 20 September 2017 (https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/CN/2017/CN.570.2017-Eng.pdf [treaties.un.org]).

Madagascar ratified Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on 21 September 2017 (https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/CN/2017/CN.587.2017-Eng.pdf [treaties.un.org]), together with the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture.

The UN treaty event is currently going on in New York, at the beginning of the UN General Assembly, and it is a time when states often ratify international treaties https://treaties.un.org/pages/TreatyEvents.aspx?path=Treaty/Focus/Page1_en.xml [treaties.un.org].

Last year, at the same time, Togo and the Dominican Republic also accessed to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

For more information on the World Coalition's campaign for worldwide ratification: www.worldcoalition.org/protocol [www.worldcoalition.org]

Source: World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, September 22, 2017

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