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Compendium: Good Practices in the Council of Europe Member States to promote Voluntary Measures in Mental Health
Compendium of good practices to promote voluntary measures in the field of mental healthcare is now publicly available. The Committee on Bioethics (DH-BIO) together with Dr Piers Gooding, consultant, have completed the work on developing a Compendium on good practices to promote voluntary...
Online training session on “Key Principles on Bioethics” under the Project on ‘‘Human Rights Protection in Biomedicine’’ in Armenia
Online HELP training session on General Principles on Bioethics were organised on 30 November 2021 for participants of HELP roll-out groups of legal and healthcare professionals of Armenia launched in October 2021. The training session was opened by Laurence Lwoff, Head of Bioethics Unit of the...
Neurotechnologies and Human Rights Framework: Do We Need New Rights?
HELP training sessions on Key Principles on Bioethics under the Project on ‘‘Human Rights Protection in Biomedicine’’ in Armenia
Online HELP training sessions on Key Principles on Bioethics were organised on 14 and 15 October 2021 for 5 groups of legal and healthcare professionals of Armenia, including the representatives from the Ministry of Health, National Institute of Health, Health and Labour Inspection body of RA, as...
Two-days capacity building training for journalists on the Key Principles on Bioethics
On 9-10 October 2021 two-days capacity-building training for journalists participating in the first pilot group of ‘’HELP training session for journalists on the Key Principles on Bioethics’’ was jointly organized with the Office of Human Rights Defender in a hybrid format. The training session...
Issues on Project “Protection of Human Rights in Biomedicine” Debated
On September 17, the Chair of the RA NA Standing Committee on Protection of Human Rights and Public Affairs Taguhi Tovmasyan met with the Head of Bioethics Unit of the Council of Europe Laurence Lwoff and the Officer of the Protection of Human Rights in Biomedicine project of the Council of...
Two-days capacity-building training for the staff of the Ministry of Health of RA on main principles of the Oviedo Convention and its Additional Protocols
On September 18-19 two-days capacity-building training for the staff of the Ministry of Health of RA on main principles of the Oviedo Convention and its Additional Protocols was held. The training was organized within the framework of the Project on ‘‘Human Rights Protection in Biomedicine’’ and...
Genome editing technologies: some clarifications but no revision of the Oviedo Convention
At its 18th plenary meeting (1-4 June 2021), the Committee on Bioethics of the Council of Europe adopted the following conclusions regarding genome editing technologies: “In accordance with its Statement on genome editing technologies adopted in December 2015 and its Strategic Action Plan on...
“Vaccine pass”: a new statement of the Committee on Bioethics underlined the human rights challenges
At a time where vaccination campaigns are accompanied by a willingness to relax restrictions taken to protect public health against the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, the issue of a “vaccine pass” is being raised in Europe as well as in other parts of the world. In a statement on human rights...
Vaccine passports: Council of Europe issues guidance to governments to safeguard human rights
In a document published today for governments across Europe, Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić highlights the relevant human rights standards for addressing the issue of “vaccine passports”. The Information Document was sent to all 47 Council of Europe member on 31 March. The document...
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