Are Human Rights Important In Bioethics?

Human dignity, bioethics, and human rights.

The authors analyse and assess the Universal Draft Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights published by UNESCO. They argue that the Draft has two main weaknesses. It unnecessarily confines the scope of bioethics to life sciences and their practical applications. And it fails to spell out the intended role of human dignity in international ethical regulation.

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

Bioethics and human rights: curb your enthusiasm.

as they put it, Annas simply ‘‘hasmisunderstood andmisrepresented our positions on several key points.’’ Speaking as editors, such provocative phrases from both sides make for ‘‘Great Debate’’ fodder, indeed. We can only hope that, as readers, you concur. This introduction does little to explain the arguments produced herein, and, undoubtedly, the end of this debate has not settled the problems...

Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.

Noting the two United Nations International Covenants on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and on Civil and Political Rights of 16 December 1966, the United Nations International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination of 21 December 1965, the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women of 18 December 1979, the United ...

Women's rights are human rights.

The US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala, challenged the world to live up to the affirmation made in Cairo: that women's rights are human rights. The US has responded to this affirmation with vigor by recognizing that when given knowledge, education, opportunity, and power, women can be heroines; they can move mountains to help themselves and the others whom they are de...