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Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/149
18 February 1998
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Fifty-second
session
Agenda item 12
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee
(A/52/L.66)]
52/149. United Nations International
Day in Support of Victims of Torture
The General
Assembly,
Recalling Economic and Social Council decision 1997/251 of 22 July 1997,
in preparing for the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, Resolution 217 A (III).
Proclaims 26 June United Nations International Day in Support of Victims
of Torture, with a view to the total eradication of torture and the effective
functioning of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Resolution 39/46, annex. which entered into
force on 26 June 1987.
70th plenary
meeting
12 December
1997
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