HUMAN RIGHTS · IV-12

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

Guinea-Bissau became bound on 2013-09-24, by ratification, the 76th 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

Guinea-Bissau

Signed

2000-09-12

Became bound

2013-09-24 — by ratification

Between the two

4,760 days (13.0 years)

Treaty in force since

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

Depositary record

United Nations Treaty Collection

Where this sits

• 76 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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