Niger - Universal Periodic Review - Death Penalty - October 2025
Country: Niger
Partners: World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty
Mechanism: UN Universal Periodic Review
Report Type: Stakeholder Report
This report addresses Niger's compliance with its international human rights obligations
regarding the death penalty and related issues, such as detention conditions and
discrimination against women. While Niger has not carried out any executions since 1976, Niger has neither abolished the
death penalty nor instituted a de jure moratorium on executions. This report examines the current state of the death penalty in Niger and recommends Niger
abolish the death penalty and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. This report further recommends, in the meantime,
that Niger (1) institute an official moratorium on executions, (2) enact constitutional and
legislative provisions directly pertaining to the death penalty, such as limiting the death
penalty to the "most serious crimes," and (3) publish data regarding the death penalty and
enhance transparency regarding death penalty practices.
