31/L.82 Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment: safeguards to prevent torture during police custody and pretrial detention

Human Rights Council Thirty-first session

Agenda item 3

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,

political, economic, social and cultural rights,

including the right to development

China, Pakistan,* Russian Federation: amendment to draft resolution

A/HRC/31/L.26/Rev.1

31/… Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment: safeguards to prevent torture during police custody

and pretrial detention

Paragraph 21 should read

21. Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner of Human

Rights to convene, in 2017, an intersessional, full-day seminar with the participation of

States, relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, intergovernmental

organizations, regional organizations, and mechanisms in the field of human rights, national

human rights institutions and other relevant national bodies, academics and experts and

non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social

Council, with interpretation in the six official languages of the United Nations, with the

objective of exchanging national experiences and practices on the implementation of

effective safeguards to prevent torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or

punishment during police custody and pretrial detention, and invites the Office of the High

Commissioner to cooperate with relevant United Nations organizations and other relevant

stakeholders in the preparation of the seminar;

* Non-member State of the Human Rights Council.

United Nations A/HRC/31/L.82