Urgesali Governments to take measures with a view to promoting the application by ali health personnel and Government officials, in particular those employed in institutions of detention or imprisonment, of the Principies of Medica! Ethics relevant to the role of health personnel, particularly physicians, in the protection of prisoners and detainees against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;
2
Requeststhe Secretary-General to disseminate the Principies of Medica) Ethics widely and in as many languages as possible and to issue a pamphlet containing the text of the Principies in the six official languages of the United Nations;
3
Ca/Is upon ali Governments to give the Principies of Medica) Ethics the widest possible distribution, in particular among medica) and paramedical associations and institutions of detention or imprisonment, in an official language of the State;
4
Invitesali relevant intergovernmental organizations, in particular the World Health Organization, and nongovernmental organizations concerned to bring the Principies of Medica! Ethics to the attention of the widest possible group of individuals, especially those active in the medica) and paramedical field;
5
Requeststhe Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-ninth session on the steps taken by the United Nations and the relevant specialized agencies, as well as by Governments, for the dissemination and implementation of the Principies of Medica! Ethics.
100th p/enary meeting 16 Decemher I 983 \'l. Resolutions adopted on the reports of the Third Committee
170 Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
17~ A: 38, S26.
171 See Sixth United Nation.i Congress on the Prevenuon o(Cnme and the 17.l O!f¡cwl Records uf the (;enera/ Assemhly, Thirty-eighth S,·sswn, .\11¡•- Treatment ofOlfenders, Caracas, 25 August-5 Septemher 1980: Repon prep/ement No 12 (A/38/12 and f'orr. l) and Supplement No. 12A (A/38.• I 2 pared by the Secretaria/ (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.81.IV.4),
