A/HRC/49/50
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
28 December 2021
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-ninth session
28 February–1 April 2022
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment
Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman
or degrading treatment or punishment, Nils Melzer
Summary
In the present report to the Human Rights Council, which is the sixth and last of his
tenure, the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment evaluates the reception and utilization by States of his thematic reports as a driver
of change in national laws, policies and practices towards the eradication of torture and illtreatment, and he offers recommendations aimed at supporting that process.
GE.21-19749(E)