Cote d'Ivoire

“I am enthusiastic about the African progress in this direction,” he said. Today, only nine of 54 African countries continue to apply the death penalty.

The Special Rapporteur stands ready to support the efforts of Côte d'Ivoire and other African States to strengthen the right to life, particularly when it comes to effectively implementing international standards in the investigation of any potentially unlawful death in places of deprivation of liberty or elsewhere, and in the establishment of justice for any arbitrary deprivation of life.

SOURCE United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)