In 1977, the United Nations General Assembly took the first step towards the drafting and adoption of a legally-binding instrument on torture. Recognizing that additional international efforts were required to protect individuals from torture, the General Assembly requested the Commission on Human Rights draft a Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Convention or Convention Against Torture). The Commission on Human Rights used the principles enunciated in the 1975 Declaration as a guide for the Convention. [340] On December 10, 1984, the thirty-sixth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. [341] General Assembly President PaulJ.F. Lusaka of Zambia proclaimed that the Convention Against Torture "represents a major step towards creating a more humane world." [342] Mr. Go'mez-Go'mez of Colombia added that the Convention's passage "implies a triumph of the human being's victory over brutality and violence .... It must not be possible in the present era ... for anyone to repeat Nietsche's cynical comment that 'the State is the coldest of cold monsters."' [343] Richard Shifter of the United States termed the vote a "significant achievement" which indicates that "[i]t is no longer acceptable, in the eyes of the international community, for a government to claim that the way it treats its own citizens is solely an internal matter if the treatment in question violates the provisions of international instruments which set human rights standards." [344]
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