The 1975 Declaration was followed by this Convention Against Torture, which similarly prohibited torture:
No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political in stability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.
An order from a superior officer or a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of torture.
The Convention also sought to establish a Committee against Torture consisting of ten human rights experts to which ratifying States were supposed to report on their progress fulfilling the obligations of the treaty.