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RESOLUTIONS AND DECLARATIONS ON BIOETHICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS BY INTER-GOVERNMENTAL BODIES
Action Plan, Council of Europe, Assembly of Heads of State and Government, Second Summit, Strasbourg, France, 10-11 October 1997).
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, Fourth World Conference on Women, 15 September 1995, A/CONF.177/20 (1995) and A/CONF.177/20/Add.1 (1995).
Council of Europe, Ad Hoc Committee of Experts on Bioethics, Report on Human Artificial Procreation (Strasbourg: 1989).
Council of Europe, Committee of Ministers, Recommendation No. R (83) 2 Concerning the Legal Protection of Persons Suffering from Mental Disorders Placed as Involuntary Patients (Feb. 22, 1983).
Council of Europe, Committee of Ministers, Recommendation No. R (83) 25 Concerning Common European Public Health Policy to Fight the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) (Nov. 26, 1987).
Council of Europe, Committee of Ministers, Recommendation No. R (89) 4 on Collection of Epidemiological Data on Primary Health Care (Mar. 6, 1989), reprinted in 41 International Digest of Health Legislation 148 (1990)
Council of Europe, Committee of Ministers, Recommendation No. R (89) 14 on the Ethical Issues of HIV Infection in the Health Care and Social Settings (Oct. 24,1989), reprinted in 41 International Digest of Health Legislation 39 (1990).
Council of Europe, Committee of Ministers, Recommendation No. R (90) 3 Concerning Medical Research on Human Beings (Feb. 6, 1990), reprinted in 41 International Digest of Health Legislation 461 (1990).
Council of Europe, Committee of Ministers, Recommendation No. R (90) 13 on Prenatal Genetic Screening, Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis and Associated Genetic Counselling (June 21, 1990), reprinted in 41 International Digest of Health Legislation 615 (1990).
Council of Europe, Committee of Ministers, Recommendation No. R (92) 3 on Genetic Testing and Screening for Health Care Purposes (Feb. 10, 1992), reprinted in 43 International Digest of Health Legislation 284 (1992).
Council of Europe, Committee of Ministers, Recommendation No. R (94) 11 on Screening as a Tool of Preventive Medicine (Oct. 10, 1994).
Council of Europe, Committee of Ministers, Recommendation No. R (97) 5 on the Protection of Medical Data (Feb. 13, 1997).
Council of Europe, Committee of Ministers, Recommendation No. R (97) 15 on Xenotransplantation (Sept. 30, 1997).
Council of Europe, Committee of Ministers, Recommendation No. R (98) 7 Concerning the Ethical and Organisational Aspects of Health Care in Prison (Apr. 8, 1998).
Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly, Opinion No. 202 (1997) on the Draft Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine on the Prohibition of Cloning Human Beings (Sept. 23, 1997).
Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly, Order No. 534 (1997) on Research and the Cloning of Human Beings (Sept. 23, 1997).
Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly, Recommendation 1046 (1986) on the Use of Human Embryos and Foetuses for Diagnostic, Therapeutic, Scientific, Industrial and Commercial Purposes (Sept. 24, 1986).
Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly, Recommendation 1080 (1988) on a Co-ordinated European Health Policy to Prevent the Spread of AIDS in Prisons (June 30, 1988).
Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly, Recommendation 1160 (1991) on the Preparation of a Convention on Bioethics (June 28, 1991).
Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly, Recommendation 1254 (1994) on the Medical and Welfare Rights of the Elderly: Ethics and Policies (Nov. 10, 1994).
Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly, Recommendation 1355 (1998) on Fighting Social Exclusion and Strengthening Social Cohesion in Europe (Jan. 28, 1998).
Declaration of Alma-Ata, International Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma-Ata, USSR, 6-12 September 1978.
Declaration on the Human Rights of Individuals Who are not Nationals of the Country in which They Live, G.A. res. 40/144, annex, 40 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 53) at 252, U.N. Doc. A/40/53 (1985).

Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons, G.A. res. 2856 (XXVI), 26 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 29) at 93, U.N. Doc. A/8429 (1971).

European Council Declaration on Banning the Cloning of Human Beings (1997), Bulletin of the European Union 22 (June 1997)
Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea, 75 U.N.T.S. 85, entered into force Oct. 21, 1950.
Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, 75 U.N.T.S. 287, entered into force Oct. 21, 1950.
Human Rights and Bioethics, C.H.R. res. 1995/82, ESCOR Supp. (No. 4) at 244, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/1995/82 (1995).

Human rights and Bioethics, C.H.R. res. 1997/71, ESCOR Supp. (No. 3) at 233, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/1997/71 (1997)

Human Rights and Bioethics, C.H.R. res. 1999/63, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/RES/1999/63 (1999).
Human rights and forensic science, C.H.R. res. 1998/36, ESCOR Supp. (No. 3) at 130, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/1998/36 (1998).
Human Rights and Forensic Science, C.H.R. res. 2000/32, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/RES/2000/32 (2000).
Human Rights and Scientific and Technological Developments, Commission on Human Rights decision 1998/104.
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, G.A. res. 2200A (XXI), 21 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 16) at 52, U.N. Doc. A/6316 (1966), 999 U.N.T.S. 171, entered into force Mar. 23, 1976.
Inter-Parliamentary Union, Resolution on Bioethics and its Implications Worldwide for Human Rights Protection (1995).
Opinion on Ethical Aspects of Cloning Techniques, Group of Advisers of the Ethical Implications of Biotechnology of the European Commission, Opinion No. 9 (May 28, 1997), reprinted in 49 International Digest of Health Legislation 406 (1998).
Opinion on the Ethical Implications of Gene Therapy, Group of Advisers to the European Commission on the Ethical Implications of Biotechnology, Opinion No. 5, (May 5, 1995)
Opinion on Ethical Aspects of Patenting Inventions Involving Elements of Human Origin, Group of Advisers on the Ethical Implications of Biotechnology of the European Commission, Opinion No. 9 (May 28, 1997), reprinted in 49 International Digest of Health Legislation 406 (1998).
Opinion on Ethical Aspects of Prenatal Diagnosis, Group of Advisers to the European Commission on the Ethical Implications of Biotechnology, Opinion No. 6 (Feb. 20, 1995).

Opinion on the Ethical Aspects of the 5th Research Framework Programme, Group of Advisers on the Ethical Implications of Biotechnology of the European Commission, Opinion No. 10, (Dec. 11, 1997).

Opinion on Ethical Questions Arising from the Commission Proposal for a Council Directive on Legal Protection for Biotechnological Inventions, Group Advisers to the European Commission on the Ethical Implications of Biotechnology, Opinion No. 3 (Oct. 1, 1993)
Opinion on Products Derived from Human Blood or Blood Plasma, Group of Advisers to the European Commission on the Ethical Implications of Biotechnology, Opinion No. 2 (Mar. 12, 1993)
Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illnesses and the Improvement of Mental Health Care, G.A. res. 46/119, 46 U.N. GAORSupp. (No. 49) at 189, U.N. Doc. A/46/49 (1991).
Principles of Medical Ethics relevant to the Role of Health Personnel, particularly Physicians, in the Protection of Prisoners and Detainees against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, G.A. res. 37/194, annex, 37 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 51) at 211, U.N. Doc. A/37/51 (1982).
The Protection of Human Rights in the Context of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), C.H.R. res. 1999/49, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/RES/1999/49 (1999).
Recommendation on the Status of Scientific Researchers, UNESCO Gen. Conf. Res. 18 C/Res.40, 18th Sess. (1974).
Recommendation No. R (97) 16 on Liver Transplantation from Living Donors, Council of Europe, Committee of Ministers, (Sept. 30, 1997)
Resolution on Cloning, European Parliament, 1997 O.J. (C 115) 14.4/92 (Mar. 12, 1997)
Resolution on Human Cloning, European Parliament, 1998 O.J. (C 34) 164 (Jan. 15, 1998)
Resolution on the Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on the development of public health policy in the European Community, 1999 O.J. (C 175) 135 (Mar. 10, 1999).
Rights of the child, C.H.R. res. 1998/76, ESCOR Supp. (No. 3) at 240, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/1998/76 (1998).
Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10 (1946-1949) [Nuremberg Code].
Universal Declaration on Human Genome and Human Rights, adopted on 11 November 1997.
Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna, 14-25 June 1993, U.N. Doc. A/CONF.157/24 (Part I) at 20 (1993).

 



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