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Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

A/RES/38/119No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 97Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, published in 1984.

What other versions does this mandate have?

30 versions · 1977–2025
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/198
  • 2025A/RES/80/198Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishmentLatestCompare with previous version
  • 2023A/RES/77/209Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishmentCompare with previous version
  • 2020A/RES/74/143Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishmentCompare with previous version
  • 2018A/RES/72/163Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishmentCompare with previous version
  • 2016A/RES/70/146Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishmentCompare with previous version

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 topics
Torture and Other Cruel TreatmentTreatiesWorking Groups

What does this mandate say?

3 operative paragraphs
1
Welcomcs Economic and Social Council resolution 1983/38 of 27 May I 983, in which the Council authorizcd a meeting of an open-ended working group of the Commission on Human Rights for a period of onc week prior to the fortieth session of the Commission in order to complete the work on a draft convention;
2
Requests the Commission on Human Rights to complete, at its fortieth session, as a matter of the highcst priority, the drafting of a convention against torture and othcr cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, with a view to submitting a draft, including provisions for the effective implementation of the future convention. to thc General Assembly at its thirty-ninth session;
3
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-ninth session the item entitled '"Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment".
100th p/enary meeting
16 Decemher 1983

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