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The Right of Amparo, Habeas Corpus or Other Legal Remedies to the Same Effect

A/RES/34/178View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 12 Report of the Economic and Social Council, published in 1980.

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects
ConferencesDetained PersonsHabeas CorpusHuman RightsPolitical PrisonersPrisoner Treatment

What’s in this document?

3 operative paragraphs
2
Considers that the use of those remedies may also forestall opportunities for persons exercising power over detainees to engage in torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;
3
Calls upon all Governments to guarantee to persons within their jurisdiction the full enjoyment of the right of amparo, habeas corpus or other legal remedies to the same effect, as may be applicable in their legal system;
4
Decides that, in order to extend the global understanding and larger applications of institutions such as amparo, habeas corpus or other legal remedies to the same effect, an international seminar on the matter would be timely and useful;
Decides further to consider this question again 5. at its thirty-fifth session.
I 06th plenary meeting
17 December 1979

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