Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 88Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, published in 1980.

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30 versions · 1977–2025

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Torture and Other Cruel Treatment Treaties

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Takes note with satisfaction of the significant progress made in the drafting of a convention on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment during the thirty-fifth session of the Commission on Human Rights, as reflected in the progress report of the Commission;102 2.

Welcomes Economic and Social Council resolution 1979/35 of 10 May 1979, by which the Council authorized an open-ended working group of the Commission on Human Rights to meet for a period of one week prior to the thirty-sixth session of the Commission to complete the work on a draft convention;

Requests the Commission on Human Rights, at its thirty-sixth session, to continue to give high priority to the question of completing the draft convention on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;

102 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1979, Supplement No. 6 (El 1979/36), chap. VIII, sect. A.

Takes note of the report of the Secretary- General, 103 called for under General Assembly resolution 33/178 of 20 December 1978, on replies to the questionnaire;

Calls upon Member States which have not yet done so to reply to the questionnaire, as called for under General Assembly resolutions 32/63 and 33/178;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-fifth session further information provided in response to the questionnaire, and to submit all the information available which he has received on the basis of the questionnaire to the Commission on Human Rights, to the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities and to the Sixth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders;

Takes note also of the report of the Secretary- 1. General104 on unilateral declarations, called for under General Assembly resolutions 32/64 and 33/178;

Invites Member States which have not yet done so to deposit the unilateral declarations with the Secretary-General, as called for under General Assembly resolutions 32/64 and 33/178;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to inform the General Assembly, in annual reports, of unilateral declarations already deposited and of such

further unilateral declarations as may be deposited by Member States;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-fifth session the item entitled "Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment", for the purpose of reviewing the progress achieved under this item.

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