Thirty-seventh session 
THIRD COMMITTEE 
Agenda item 88

TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT

Australia, Austria, Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, Greece, Iceland, India, Italy, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Portugal, Senegal, 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 [ ]452 (XXX) of 9 December 1974, 
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 and its resolution 32/63 of 8 December 1977, 
Recalling that, in its resolution 11 of 5 September 1980, 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, 
Considering that it was not found possible to complete the work on the draft convention during the thirty-eighth session of the Commission on Human Rights, 
	1.	Welcomes Economic and Social Council resolution 1982/38 of [ ] May 1982, by which the Council authorized a meeting of an open-ended working group of the Commission on Human Rights for a period of one week prior to the thirty-ninth 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 high priority, at its thirty-ninth 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-eighth session;
	3.	Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-eighth session the item entitled “Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”.