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A/C.3/36/L.34

Draft resolution / Austria, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Jamaica, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.

UN Document Symbol A/C.3/36/L.34
Convention Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Document Type Draft Resolution
Session 36th
Type Document
Description

2 p.

Subjects Torture and Other Cruel Treatment

Extracted Text

UNITED NATIONS
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A/C.3/36/L .34
28 October   1961
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Thirty-sixth session THIRD COMMITTEE Agenda  item 91
TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL,   INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT
OR PUNISHMENT
Austria,  Costa  Rica,   Denmark, Ecuador, Finland,  Greece,  Iceland. Jamaica,  Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Sweden:
draft resolution
The  General  Assembly,
Recalling  the  Declaration on the Protection of All 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  International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Recalling  further   its resolution  32/62 of  8  December 1977,   in which  it requested  the Commission on Human Rights  to draw up a draft convention on torture and other cruel,   inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in the light of the principles embodied  in  the Declaration,  32/63 of  8  December 1977,
Noting that resolution 11 of the Sixth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders expressed the belief that the draft convention should  be finalized at the earliest possible  time,
1.    Welcomes Economic and Social Council  resolution 1901/37 of 8 May 1981,   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-eighth session of the Commission to complete the work on a draft convention)
2.    Requests  the Commission on Human Rights   to complete as a matter  of highest priority, at its thirty-eighth session,  the drafting of a convention on torture and other  cruel,   inhuman or degrading  treatment or  punishment,  with a  view
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to submitting a Draft,  Including  provision  for the effective Implementation of the future convention,  to the General Assembly at  its thirty-seventy session
3.      Decides to include  in the provisional agenda of it thirty-seventh session the item entitled "Torture and other cruel,  inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment".