A/71/298
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
5 August 2016
Original: English
Seventy-first 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
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
interim report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment, Juan E. Méndez, submitted in accordance wit h
Assembly resolution 70/146.
* A/71/150.
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