UN Human Rights Treaties

UNITED   NATIONS
ECONOMIC
AND
SOCIAL COUNCIL
 
Distr.
GENERAL
E/CT.4/NGO/325
6 March 1931
Original: ENGLISH
 
COMMISSION 0N HUMN RIGHTS Thirty-seventh session Agenda item 10 (a)
QUESTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS OP ALL PERS0N SUBJECTED TO ANY FORII OF DETENTION ON IMPRISONMENT   IN PARTICULAR:
10 (a)    Torture and other cruel,   inhuman or degrading-treatment or punishment
Written statement submitted by the World Federation of
United Nations Associations,  a non-governmental
organization in category I consultative status
The Secretary-General has received the following communication,  which is circulated in accordance with Economic and Social Council resolution 1296   (XLIV).
[6 March 1981]
Resolution adopted by the_ twenty-seventh plenary Assembly of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, Barcelona, Spain on 6 October 1979
Convention Against Torture
THE TWENTY- SEVENTH  PICNARY ASSEMBLY OF WFUNA,
RECALLING WFUNA's long-standing commitment to the international campaign for the abolition of torture,
REQUESTS the Secretary-General of WFUNA and UNA s to support efforts in the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to elaborate an effective convention against torture and other cruel,   inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment,  including in particular the following- principles:
(i)     the obligation of all countries to try and extradite persona in respect of whom there is a prima facie  case of having  perpetrated acts of torture anywhere;
(ii)    the obligation not to expel or extradite persons to countries where they risk being subjected to torture or cruel,  inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment;  and
(iii)    the provision of an effective mechanism for monitoring conditions of
detention so as to avoid acts of torture or cruel,   inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment,
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