A/64/215
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 August 2009
Original: English
Sixty-fourth session
Item 71 (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
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 members of the
General Assembly the interim report of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights
Council on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,
Manfred Nowak, submitted in accordance with Assembly resolution 63/166.
* A/64/150.
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