Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

A/RES/35/178View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 82 Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, published in 1981.

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?

3 subjects

Torture and Other Cruel Treatment Treaties Working Groups

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

I.

Welcomes Economic and Social Council resolution 1980/32 of 2 May 1980, 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-seventh session of the Commission to complete the work on a draft convention against torture

•• E/CN.4/1296, para. 109; see also A/35/401, annex.

" Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.

"See A/CONF.87/14/Rev.l, part one. chap. I. sect. B. and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment:

Requests the Commission on Human Rights to complete as a matter of urgency, at its thirty-seventh session, the drafting of a convention on torture and other 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 the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session:

Requests the Secretary-General to forward the replies submitted by Governments of States parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to the questionnaire on torture to the Human Rights Committee for the use of Committee members when dealing with questions relating ~o torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment:

Invites Member Statt.s which have not yet done so to deposit the unilateral declarations with the Secretary- General, as called for under General Assembly resolutions 32/64 of 8 December I 977 and 33/ 178 of 20 December 1978;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-sixth session the item entitled "Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment".

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