Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

A/RES/33/178View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 83 Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, published in 1979.

What other versions does this mandate have?

30 versions · 1977–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/198

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/198	Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment	5,204	90%Compare
2023	A/RES/77/209	Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment	4,963	87%Compare
2020	A/RES/74/143	Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment	4,499	88%Compare
2018	A/RES/72/163	Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment	4,244	85%Compare
2016	A/RES/70/146	Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment	3,870	41%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

35 reports · 2003–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/HRC/61/27	United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/209
2026	A/HRC/61/28	Special Fund Established by the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/209
2025	A/80/269	United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/209
2024	A/HRC/58/32	Special Fund Established by the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/209
2024	A/HRC/58/31	United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/74/143

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 subjects

Torture and Other Cruel Treatment Treaties

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the progress report of the Com- 1. mission on Human Rights on the drafting of a con-

111 A/C.3/33/L.47 and Corr.I and 2, Add.I and Corr.I and

vention on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment;113

Welcomes Economic and Social Council decision 1978/24 of 5 May 1978, by which the Council authorized a working group open to all members of the. Commission on Human Rights to meet for one week immediately before its thirty-fifth session with the task of preparing concrete drafting proposals _for a draft convention on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, on the basis of the relevant documents of the thirty-fourth session of the Commission and any comments received from Governments;

Requests the Commission on Human Rights, at its thirty-fifth session, to give high priority to the question of drafting a convention on torture;

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General 114 called for under General Assembly resolution 32/63, containing replies to the questionnaire;

Calls upon Member States which have not yet done so to reply to the questionnaire, as called for under resolution 32/63;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-fourth session further information provided in response to the questionnaire, and to submit all the information available which he has received to the Commission on Human Rights and the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities;

Takes note also of the report of the Secretary- General, 115 called for under General Assembly resolution 32/64, containing unilateral declarations;

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

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to inform the General Assembly, in annual reports, of such further unilateral declarations which may be deposited by Member States;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-fourth 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.

VI.

Retiolutions adopted on the reports of the Third Committee

sect. A. chap. XX, sect. A. chap. XXI, sect. A.

Add.2 and Corr.I (subsequently issued as A/34/60).

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