Global bioethics at UNESCO: in defence of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.

Will international human rights subsume medical ethics? Intersections in the UNESCO Universal Bioethics Declaration.

The International Bioethics Committee (IBC) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is currently drafting a Universal Bioethics Declaration ("the declaration"). The content and even the name of the declaration has yet to be finalized, but it is expected to range widely over human and non-human bioethics. It appears likely to include many articles directl...

Human rights and bioethics: the universal declaration of human rights and UNESCO universal declaration of bioethics and human rights.

کرامت انسان در پرتو حقوق بین الملل زیست پزشکی

Human’s munificence is one of the important concepts of Human right which is a character of Humans. In fact this concept is a human feature and it is particularly for humans and no bond would constrain it and no condition would limit it. Although this human feature has been with humans from the beginning of his life and has always been considered in his ethical and religious thoughts, thi...

Of plants and people

References to human dignity are littered throughout modern human rights and bioethics instruments, from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and the European Convention on Human Rights (1950), to UNESCO’s Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (2005) and the latest version of the Declaration of Helsinki (2008). Dignity is both the background value of these texts, and th...

Consensus statement on dignity in illness, disability, and dying: and a response to the UNESCO Universal Draft Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.

a. “Consensus Statement on Dignity in Illness, Disability, and Dying and a Response to the UNESCO Universal Draft Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights” was the product of a Colloquium of the International Association of Catholic Bioethicists (IACB), held in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), June 26–30, 2005. b. An introduction to the consensus statement is provided here by William Sullivan,...