government: self-governing parliamentary democracy
state of civil and political rights:
constitution: 4 August 1965
legal system: based on New Zealand law and English common law
legislative system: bicameral Parliament consisting of a Legislative Assembly (or lower house) and a House of Ariki (or upper house)
judicial system: High Court
religion: Cook Islands Christian Church 55.9%, Roman Catholic 16.8%, Seventh-Day Adventists 7.9%, Church of Latter Day Saints 3.8%, other Protestant 5.8%, other 4.2%, unspecified 2.6%, none 3%
death row:
year of last executions: 0-0-0
death sentences:
executions: 0
international treaties on human rights and the death penalty:
situation:
