THE ASIA PACIFIC BIOETHICS PROGRAM OF THE UNESCO CHAIR IN BIOETHICS

ln 2005 at the 33'd session of General Conference the UNESCO, adapted the universal declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. Declaration article 1.1 outlines the principals that respond to ethical issue related to medicine, life sciences and associated technologies as applied to human beings. Thus the international standards for Bioethics are grounded in a language of rights-to-safe guard human dignity and human rights.