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United Nations: General Assembly Resolution on a Draft Code of Medical Ethics*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2017

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International Legal Materials , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , January 1982 , pp. 211 - 213
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1982

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[U.N. General Assembly Resolution 36/61 was adopted on November 2 5, 1981, without a vote. The draft principles of medical ethics relevant to the role of health personnel in the protection of persons against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment are annexed to this resolution, at I.L.M. page 213.]

References

1/ See A/CONP.87/14/Rev.l, part one , chap .I, sect . B.

2/ See A/35/372 and Add.1-3, A/36/140 and Add.1-4.

3/ For the purpose of the present Declaration, torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted by, or at the instigation of, a public official on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or confession, punishing him for an act he has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating him or other persons; it does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions to the extent consistent with the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners. Torture constitutes an aggravated and deliberate form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.