On 14 December 2021, Ms Helena Mas Santure, Secretary of State for Health of Andorra, in the presence of the Deputy Secretary General, Björn Berge, signed the Convention for the protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (ETS No. 164), bringing the number of signatures to 36.
The Convention, known as the Oviedo Convention, is the first binding international instrument designed to preserve human dignity, rights and freedoms, through a series of principles and prohibitions against the misuse of biological and medical advances.
The Convention’s starting point is that the interests of human beings must come before the interests of science or society. It lays down a series of principles and prohibitions concerning bioethics, medical research, consent, rights to private life and information, organ transplantation, public debate etc.
More information:
- Convention for the protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (ETS No. 164)
- Bioethics
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