HUMAN RIGHTS · IV-12

Canada and the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty

Canada became bound on 2005-11-25, by accession, the 54th state to do so.

Treaty

Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty

State

Canada

Signed

not signed

Became bound

2005-11-25 — by accession

Treaty in force since

11 July 1991, in accordance with article 8(1).

Depositary record

United Nations Treaty Collection

Accession is not ratification. A state accedes to a treaty it never signed, so there is no signature date to show and none is missing. The two are often written as though interchangeable; the record does not treat them that way, so neither does this page.

Where this sits

• 54 in order of becoming party
• 92 states bound in total
• New treaty adopted

Order is by the date the depositary records, and states that became bound on the same day share a position — eleven states became party to the Charter on 24 October 1945 and none of them was eleventh.

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