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The European Convention of human rights and biomedicine and global bioethics

Adoption of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of Human Beings with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine in 1997 represents an organized ethical and legal response of the Council of Europe Member States to the challenges posed by the fast development of biology and medicine that have potential to change our society. Its regulatory role is aimed to prohibit such applications of biomedicine on human beings and society that are perceived as unethical and to allow such applications that are perceived as ethical. As the first legally binding international instrument designed to protect human rights in the field of bioethics, this Convention is playing a pivotal regulatory role in this field at the pan-European, international and to national level. The Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine has a global impact on the development of other international instruments in this field. Other universal international instruments in this field have adopted similar standards as the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, whereby we could see the development from previously agreed regional standards to universal standards or global consensus on a particular issue. For example, the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine has broadened the traditional international non-discrimination clause with a new ground: "discrimination based on genetic heritage". Similar approach was taken by the Declaration on Human Genome and Human Rights that prohibits discrimination based on "genetic characteristics". In the future this new human rights and bioethical standard could most probably progress further as a universal standard in the field of human rights and bioethics.

The Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine in 1997; fast development of biology and medicine and society; international legal instruments; human rights

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