Universal Declaration on 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...

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...

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...

Towards an international treaty on human rights and biomedicine? Some reflections inspired by UNESCO's Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.

The 33 session of the General Conference of UNESCO has adopted by acclamation on 19 October 2005 the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. After the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights (1997), followed by the Universal Declaration on Human Genetic Data (2003), the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights is the third instrument related to bioethi...

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

Bioethics and self-governance: the lessons of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.

The following article analyzes the process of conception, elaboration, and adoption of the Universal Declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights, and reflects on the lessons it might hold for public bioethics on the international level. The author was involved in the process at a variety of levels: he provided advice to the IBC on behalf of the President's Council of Bioethics; he served as the U...