HUMAN RIGHTS · IV-12

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

United Kingdom became bound on 1999-12-10, by ratification, the 39th 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

United Kingdom

Signed

1999-03-31

Became bound

1999-12-10 — by ratification

Between the two

254 days

Treaty in force since

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

Depositary record

United Nations Treaty Collection

Where this sits

• 39 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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