Thanks to ICJW's UNESCO delegate in Paris, Dr. Gabrielle Voignac, I have just received all the information on the UNESCO
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION ON BIOETHICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS.
See
www.unesco.org/shs/ethics and
The Global Ethics Observatory (GEObs) at
www.unesco.org/shs/ethics/geobs
which has a system of databases with worldwide coverage in bioethics and other areas of applied ethics in science and technology such as environmental ethics, science ethics, and technology ethics.
The above Declaration was adopted on 19 october 2005 by the 33rd session of the General Conference of UNESCO, "when the member States committed themselves and the international community to respect and apply the fudamental principles of bioethics set forth within a single text."
SCOPE.
1.The Declaration addresses ethical issues relating to medicine, life sciences and associated technologies as applied to human beings, taking into account their social, legal and environmental dimensions.
2. This Declaration is addressed to States. As appropriate and relevant, it also provides guidance to decisions or practices of individuals, groups, communities, institutions and corporations, public and private.
The 28 Articles deal with the AIMS, PRINCIPLES of human dignity and human rights; benefit and harm; autonomy and individual responsibility; consent; etc.
GEObs has set up 4 Databases: 1. who's who in ethics. 2. ethics in institutions. 3. ethics teaching programs. 4. ethics related legislation and guidelines.
They invite contributions to GEObs by providing data which anyone may like to see included in any of the above databases. One can contact UNESCO
Division of Ethics of Science and Technology, Social and HumanScience Sector.
1, rue Miollis
75732 Pris Cedex 15.
Email: geo@unesco.org.
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See previous post on STEM CELL RESEARCH AND CLONING
http://anivlam.blogspot.com/2006/10/therapeutic-cloning-embryonic-stem.html
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