Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

A/RES/38/119View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 97 Torture 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

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?

3 operative paragraphs

Recalling the Declaration on the Protection of Ali Persons from Being Subjected to Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,

adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 3452

(XXX) of 9 December 1975,

Bearing in mind article 7 of the lnternational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 170

Recalling a/so its resolution 32/62 of 8 December 1977, in which it requested the Commission on Human Rights to draw up a draft convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, in the light of the principies embodied in the Declaration. and its resolution 32/63 of 8 December 1977,

Reca/lingfurther that the Sixth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, in its resolution 11 of 5 September 1980, expressed the belief that the draft convention should be finalized at thc earliest possible time, 171

Considering that it was not possible to complete thc work on the draft convention during the thirty-ninth scssion of the Commission on Human Rights,

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;

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;

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

170 Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.

17~ A: 38, S26.

171 See Sixth United Nation.i Congress on the Prevenuon o(Cnme and the 17.l O!f¡cwl Records uf the (;enera/ Assemhly, Thirty-eighth S,·sswn, .\11¡•- Treatment ofOlfenders, Caracas, 25 August-5 Septemher 1980: Repon prep/ement No 12 (A/38/12 and f'orr. l) and Supplement No. 12A (A/38.• I 2 pared by the Secretaria/ (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.81.IV.4),

Add.l). chap. 1, sect. B.

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