Torture and inhuman treatment of children in detention in South Africa and Namibia : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Expresses its profound outrage at evidence of detention, torture and inhuman treatment of children in South Africa; demands the immediate and unconditional release of children held in detention by the apartheid regime in South Africa; demands the immediate dismantlement of the so-called "rehabilitation camps" and "re-education centres" in South Africa, since they only serve the racist regime's strategy of physically and mentally abusing black South African children; requests the Commission on Human Rights to continue to pay special attention to the question of detention, torture and other inhuman treatment of children in South Africa; requests the Commission on Human Rights to pay special attention to the children of Namibia who have been victims of torture, detention and other inhuman treatment by the apartheid regime, with a view to rehabilitating them.

Adopted without vote, 82nd meeting

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Adopted at the 82nd plenary meeting, 15 Dec. 1989.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 44th session, Volume 1, 19 September-29 December 1989. - A/44/49. - 1990. - p. 223. - (GAOR, 44th sess., Suppl. no. 49).