Naslov
RETHINKING THE UNESCO UNIVERSAL DECLARATION ON BIOETHICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Autori
Tucak, Ivana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
International Scientific Conference: “Transformative Technologies: Legal and Ethical Challenges of the 21st Century”

Urednik/ci
Mirjanić, Željko ; Milinković, Igor

Izdavač
Pravni fakultet Univerziteta u Banjoj Luci

Grad
Banja Luka

Godina
2020

Raspon stranica
51-69

ISBN
978-99976-54-02-1

Ključne riječi
Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, UNESCO, human rights, dignity, autonomy, solidarity

Sažetak
The UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (UDBHR) was adopted at the 33rd session of the General Conference of UN Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), held in Paris on 19 October 2005. This international instrument keeps track with the prevailing trend to deal with bioethical issues from the perspective of human rights. Even before its adoption, the UDBHR had been thoroughly criticized. The authors criticize the UDBHR for being a weak instrument containing only minimum standards of protection and for having no binding legal effect since it represents the so-called soft law. The basic principles of the UDBHR are not, according to critics, formulated precisely but more than less generally. This paper is aimed at examining the content of the UDBHR. It indicates UDBHR importance as the first global law document which regulates the issue of human rights and bioethics in a comprehensive way. The significance of the UDBHR reflects in providing the member states with guidelines in tackling different bioethical issues. In this context, the role of UNESCO in bioethics is elaborated and so are its efforts to achieve a consensus among the states on bioethical issues

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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