Civil and Political Rights Including the Question of Torture and Detention
Civil and Political Rights Including the Question of Torture and Detention

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Published: 2002

Total Pages: 83

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The Commission on Human Rights, in its resolution 2001/44, took note of the report of the ninth session of the open-ended working group on a draft optional protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (the Convention) (E/CN.4/2001/67), and requested the working group, in order to continue its work, to meet prior to the fifty-eighth session of the Commission for a period of two weeks, with a view to completing expeditiously a final and substantive text, and to report to the Commission at its fifty-eighth session. The Economic and Social Council, in its decision 2001/265, endorsed that request.

Civil and Political Rights, Including the Question of Torture and Detention
Civil and Political Rights, Including the Question of Torture and Detention

Author: Manfred Nowak

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Published: 2006

Total Pages: 59

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The main purposes of the visit to China were to assess the prevailing situation of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, to promote preventive mechanisms to eradicate torture and ill-treatment, and to begin a process of long-term cooperation with the Government.