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Thematic report submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council examining hostage-taking through the framework of the absolute prohibition of torture, outlining legal standards, recent mandate activities and recommendations to States and other actors.
Document symbol: A/HRC/58/55
Version: Advance edited version
Distribution: General
Date: 6 February 2025
Original language: English
Organ: United Nations Human Rights Council
Session: Fifty-eighth session (24 February–4 April 2025)
Agenda item: 3 – Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development
Type of document: Report
Mandate: Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
Author: Alice Jill Edwards
Reporting period (activities section): 15 December 2023 – 31 December 2024
Subject: Hostage-taking as torture under international law
Related legal instrument: International Convention on the Taking of Hostages
Addressees: States, non-State actors, United Nations entities and bodies
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Date of changes: N/A
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Issuing body: Committee against Torture
Language: English
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Region / City: International
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Target Audience: International policymakers, human rights organizations
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Date of changes: N/A
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Country: Denmark
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