Suriname Joint Stakeholder Report for the United Nations Universal Periodic Review: The Death Penalty
Date: April 10, 2026
Country: Suriname
Partners: Parliamentarians for Global Action, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty
Mechanism: UN Universal Periodic Review
Report Type: Stakeholder Report
Country: Suriname
Partners: Parliamentarians for Global Action, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty
Mechanism: UN Universal Periodic Review
Report Type: Stakeholder Report
This report addresses Suriname's compliance with its international human rights obligations with respect to the death penalty. Suriname abolished the death penalty in its Penal Code in 2015 and in its Military Penal Code
in August 2021.1 Since its third-cycle UPR in November 2021, however, Suriname has not
acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, despite repeated commitments to do so.
