A/RES/74/143
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 70 (a)
Promotion and protection of human rights: implementation
of human rights instruments
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 18 December 2019
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/399/Add.1)]
74/143.
Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
or punishment
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its previous resolutions on torture and other cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment,
Reaffirming also that no one shall be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman
or degrading treatment or punishment,
Recalling that freedom from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment is a non-derogable right under international law, including
international human rights law and international humanitarian law, which must be
respected and protected under all circumstances, including in times of international
and non-international armed conflict or 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,
Recalling also that the prohibition of torture is a peremptory norm of
international law without territorial limitation and that international, regional and
domestic courts have recognized the prohibition of cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment as customary international law,
Recalling further the definition of torture contained in article 1 of the
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment 1 and the obligation of States to abide strictly by the definition of torture
contained in article 1, without prejudice to any international instrument or national
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