Considerations on Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights

Today Life technology has been developed both in national and international level. In the Light of Fast Progress of life technology, respect to principles of bioethics became necessary. Vienna declaration and program of Action of the world Conference on human rights (1993) emphasizes in para.11: "Everyone has the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications. The world Conference on human rights notes that certain advance, notably in the biomedical and life sciences as well as in information technology, may have potentially adverse consequences for the integrity, dignity, and human rights of the individual and calls for internationalcooperation to ensure that human rights and dignity are fully respected in this area of Universal concern. General conference of UNESCO in the scope related to bioethics has adopted Universal Declaration on Human Genome and Human Rights (1997) and International Declaration on Human Genetic Data (2003) that their codification is excellent and their content is comprehensive, logic and transparent. But the third declaration which has been adopted by UNESCO under the title of "Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights" has some problems, such as structural Problem, Lack of attention to obligations of individuals, incorrect expression of purpose of declaration and principles of bioethics and also nondiscrimination principle. Fundamental principles of bioethics have not been explained well, Principle of consent has been considered as absolute and also declaration has addressed states and has not paid enough attention to obligation of individuals.