Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment A/RES/80/198 into account their grave nature, and calls upon States to prohibit under national law acts constituting cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; 6. Recognizes that conflict-related sexual violence may amount to torture, and encourages States to ensure that effective legislative, administrative, judicial and other measures are taken to prevent and respond to such acts, and calls upon all States to ensure respect for the prohibitions of sexual violence and torture during armed conflict; 7. Stresses that States must ensure that no statement or evidence that is established to have been obtained as a result of torture is invoked as evidence in any proceedings, except against a person accused of torture as evidence that the statement or evidence was obtained, urges States to extend that prohibition to statements or evidence obtained as a result of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and recognizes that adequate corroboration of statements, including confessions, used as evidence in any proceedings constitutes one safeguard for the prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; 8. Urges States not to expel, return (“refouler”), extradite or in any other way transfer a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that the person would be in danger of being subjected to torture, stresses the importance of effective legal and procedural safeguards in this regard, and recognizes that diplomatic assurances, where given, do not release States from their obligations under international human rights, humanitarian and refugee law, in particular the principle of non‑refoulement; 9. Recalls that, for the purpose of determining whether there are substantial grounds for believing that a person would be in danger of being subjected to torture, the competent authorities shall take into account all relevant considerations, including, where applicable, the existence in the State concerned of a consistent pattern of gross, flagrant or mass violations of human rights; 10. Urges States to ensure that border control operations and reception centres fully comply with international human rights obligations and commitments, including the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; 11. Calls upon all States to adopt and implement effective measures to prevent torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, in particular in the context of the use of force by law enforcement officials and in places of detention and other places where persons are deprived of their liberty, including legal and procedural safeguards, as well as to ensure that the competent judicial or disciplinary authorities and, where relevant, the prosecution can effectively ensure compliance with such safeguards; 12. Also calls upon all States to take effective measures to ensure that the use of force by police and other law enforcement officials, including the use of less -lethal weapons, is in conformity with international obligations and the principles of legality, necessity, proportionality, accountability and non‑discrimination, and that those using force account for each use of force, bearing in mind that lethal force may only be used as a last resort to protect against an imminent threat to life or grievous b odily harm, and recalls in this regard Human Rights Council resolution 46/15 of 23 March 2021; 7 13. Recalls its resolution 43/173 of 9 December 1988 on the Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment, and in _______________ 7 4/11 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/76/53), chap. V., sect. A. 25-20949