Requests the Secretary-General, together with all the entities of the UN system and other appropriate organizations, to undertake and co-ordinate the necessary action to prevent and curtail severe victimization where national means of recourse are insufficient; recommends that Member States and the UN regional and interregional institutes take the necessary steps to provide professional and other persons dealing with victims with suitable training in issues concerning victims, taking into account the model training curricula developed for this purpose; invites the UN funding agencies to support technical co-operation programmes for the establishment of services for victims; requests the Secretary-General to further develop international means of recourse and redress for victims where national channels may be insufficient and to report to the Committee on Crime Prevention and Control, at its 12th session, on the development of such means; invites the 8th UN Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders to recommend wide distribution of the Guide for Practitioners on the Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power and the Measures for Implementation of the Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power.

Adopted without vote, 13th meeting

Adopted at the 13th plenary meeting, 24 May 1990.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its 1st regular session of 1990, 1-25 May 1990. - E/1990/INF/6. - 16 July 1990. - p. 52-54. - Issued in ESCOR, 1990, Suppl. no. 1.