A/65/273
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
10 August 2010
Original: English
Sixty-fifth session
Item 69 (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
Note by the Secretary-General
The Secretary-General has the honour to transmit 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 General Assembly resolution 64/153.
* A/65/150.
10-48049 (E) 080910
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