A/HRC/RES/22/21
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 April 2013
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-second session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
22/21.
Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment: rehabilitation of torture victims
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling all resolutions on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
or punishment adopted by the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and
the Council,
Reaffirming that no one shall be subjected to torture or to other cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment, and recalling in this regard the Convention against
Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and relevant
provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on
the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the
Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the
Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their
Families,
Recalling that freedom from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
or punishment is a non-derogable right under international law that must be respected and
protected under all circumstances, including in times of international or internal armed
conflict or internal disturbance or any other public emergency, that the absolute prohibition
of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment is affirmed in
relevant international instruments, and that legal and procedural safeguards against such
acts must not be subject to measures that would circumvent this right,
Noting that torture and inhuman treatment are grave breaches of the Geneva
Conventions of 1949 and that, under the Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for
the Former Yugoslavia, the Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its twenty-second session (A/HRC/22/2), chap. I.
GE.13-12992