Events


Webinar: Promoting health literacy in the context of a pandemic - relevance and challenges
On 30 June 2020, in the framework of the launching of the Strategic Action Plan on Human Rights and Technologies in Biomedicine (2020-2025) organised under the auspices of the Greek chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers, the Council of Europe Committee on Bioethics (DH-BIO) held a webinar on promoting health literacy in the context of a pandemic: relevance and challenges.
On 26 June 2020, in the framework of the launching of the Strategic Action Plan on Human Rights and Technologies in Biomedicine (2020-2025) organised under the auspices of the Greek chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers, the Council of Europe Committee on Bioethics (DH-BIO) held a webinar on COVID-19 testing - key human rights and ethical concerns.

The Council of Europe’s Committee on Bioethics (DH-BIO) organised a round table in Brussels on the scope and the methodology to be adopted in a study on “Good practices in mental health care
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Know more about bioethics - safegarding Human Rights in Biomedicine. What are the challenges for human beings posed by developments in biomedicine and how do they affect our human rights?
HELP course on key human rights principles in biomedicine presented during the 7th European Conference of Health Law at dedicated workshop
The objective of the event was to explore why public debate on biomedicine and human rights is so important for policy makers in an era when emerging technologies have an increasing impact on our societies.

Legal assessment of the Law of the Republic of Belarus No. 28-З on transplantation of human organs and tissues
Legal assessment of the Law of the Republic of Belarus No. 28-З on transplantation of human organs and tissues of 4 March 1997 vis-à-vis its compliance with the Council of Europe standards will be conducted by the leading international experts
Ethical issues raised by gene editing technologies, protection of the elderly, and the importance of public debate highlighted by the Council of Europe in EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF).
Cross-Sectoral Challenges of Law and Ethics: the Regulation of Biomedical Technologies. The legal control of cutting-edge biomedical technologies was discussed at the VIII St. Petersburg Legal Forum.

2017 marked the 20th anniversary of the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (Oviedo Convention). On this occasion an international conference was held on 24-25 October 2017, in Strasbourg, under the auspices of the Czech Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers
The Conference is being jointly organised by the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, the Russian State University of Justice under the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and the Bioethics Unit of the Council of Europe. The main focus will be on the key principle of human rights’ protection enshrined both in the Constitution of the Russian Federation and in the Oviedo Convention.
On 12 April, a session on the protection of human rights in the biomedical field (bioethics) took place during the short-term courses "Implementation of the international and constitutional guarantees of human rights in Russian law and law enforcement practice", which were jointly organised by the European Studies Institute of the MGIMO University and the Council of Europe, in Moscow on 10-14 April 2017.

Council of Europe and the Ministry of Health of Belarus held a seminar on bioethics for representatives of executive, legislative and judicial authorities, as well as professionals in the legal and health field. The seminar was held in the framework of the implementation of the Council of Europe Action plan for Belarus 2016-2017.
High-level Seminar on International Case-Law in Bioethics: Insight and Foresight
A Seminar “International Case-Law and Bioethics: Insight and Foresight” took place on 5 December 2016 in Strasbourg under the auspices of the Cypriot Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.
The Council of Europe organised with the Turkish authorities the End-of-Life Care Symposium in the framework of the Council of Europe cooperation activities.

Seminar in Yerevan on the decision-making process regarding medical treatment in end-of-life situations
Decision-making process regarding medical treatment in end-of-life situations

International conference Human rights and Biomedicine - Ethical and Legal Aspects of Organ Donation
At an international conference organised by the Council of Europe and the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, ethical, legal and health professionals, together with representatives of relevant authorities, agreed on the need for more experience-sharing, co-operation and public dialogue to ensure better protection of human rights in the biomedical field. The conference was part of the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of Russia’s membership of the Council of Europe.

The International Conference on « Emerging Technologies and Human Rights » took place in Strasbourg on 4-5 May 2015.

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