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Capital Punishment in Southern Africa

A/RES/2394(XXIII)No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1969.

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 topics
ApartheidCapital PunishmentNamibiaNational Liberation MovementsPolitical OppositionSouth AfricaSouthern Rhodesia

What does this mandate say?

3 operative paragraphs
1
Condemns the illegal regime in Southern Rhodesia, the equally illegal South African regime in Namibia and the racist Government in South Africa for resorting to the application of the death penalty and the threat or use of capital punishment in their attempts to suppress the natural aspirations of the peoples of southern Africa to social and economic justice, civil rights and political freedom ;
2
Calls upon the Government of South Africa to renounce the execution of any persons sentenced to death for their opposition to apartheid;
3
Requests the Commission on Human Rights and the Economic and Social Council to keep this matter under constant review.
26 November 1968.

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