A/72/178
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
20 July 2017
Original: English
Seventy-second session
Item 73 (b) of the provisional agenda*
Promotion and protection of human rights: human
rights questions, including alternative approaches
for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights
and fundamental freedoms
Extra-custodial use of force and the prohibition of torture
and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
or punishment
Note by the Secretary-General
The Secretary-General has the honour to transmit to the General Assembly the
report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment, Nils Melzer, submitted in accordance with Human Rights
Council resolution 34/19.
* A/72/150.
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