CGS : Global Governance

About Global Governance & Human Biotechnology

Several important international bodies have adopted human biotechnology policies, though most regulation takes place at the national level.

International organizations have taken strong stands to prevent human reproductive cloning and inheritable genetic modification. The Council of Europe's Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (1997)—the most authoritative international agreement to date—bans inheritable genetic modification, human reproductive cloning, and research cloning while also regulating other human biotechnologies.

UNESCO, the European Parliament, the Group of Eight industrial nations, the World Health Assembly, and the United Nations have also adopted various prohibitions on human reproductive cloning.

Law allows for wider sampling of DNA [New Zealand]by Hamish McNeilly, The Otago Daily TimesSeptember 7th, 2010Under new amendments, police may collect DNA samples as they take an offender's fingerprints.

Top IVF doctor defends offering help for parents to pick babies' sexby Lisa Adams, Daily RecordJuly 29th, 2010MEET the doctor who is making Scots' dreams of designing the perfect baby come true.

Reproductive Tourism: Surrogacy Outsourcing Takes Hold in Guatemalaby Marcy Darnovsky, Biopolitical TimesJune 1st, 2010Impoverished Guatemalan women are a new labor force in the global baby business.

Struggling to Control Fertility Tourismby Pete Shanks, Biopolitical TimesApril 17th, 2010Several countries are trying to figure out what to do about their citizens who go abroad for assisted reproduction procedures to evade local prohibitions (or just to save money).

Emerging Technologies and a Sustainable, Healthy, Just WorldThe Case of Human Reproductive and Genetic Technologiesby Marcy Darnovsky and Jesse Reynolds, Biodiversity: The Newsletter of the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity (Winter 2010)Environmentalists are in a position to play a critically important role in determining how powerful, emerging technologies are ultimately developed, used, and regulated.

"Moral Questions of an Altogether Different Kind" [PDF]Progressive Politics in the Biotech Ageby Marcy Darnovsky, Harvard Law and Policy ReviewFebruary 23rd, 2010Human genetic, reproductive and biomedical technologies are taking us into uncharted moral and political waters.

Gene doping real threat to Olympiansby Margaret Munro, Canwest News ServiceFebruary 5th, 2010The World Anti-Doping Agency warns of grave health risk in attempt to boost performance

Tackling the International Trafficking of Organs, Tissues and Cellsby Jesse Reynolds, Biopolitical TimesNovember 24th, 2009Two major efforts to address the international trafficking of organs, tissues and cells have implications for the issues addressed here at Biopolitical Times.

Global Governance of the New Human BiotechnologiesChallenges and opportunities over the coming decadeNovember 4th, 2009Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies hosted this invitational gathering

Study seeks ban on organ traffickingby Edith M. Lederer, Associated PressOctober 13th, 2009A new international convention is needed to prevent trafficking in organs, tissues and cells, according to a joint study by the United Nations and the Council of Europe.

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