Ten years of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights

Abstract

The Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights of UNESCO, on 2005, represents a radical change between the “classical bioethics”, devoid of a social and political view, and the “new bioethics” witch inserts man into a global stage with their peers and other components of the biosphere. Ten years after its entry into
force, the paper relates its history, as well as its social and political value of the Declaration, highlighting its more significant contributions and concluding with a vision of the future.