UNESCO conference on human rights and bioethics

UNESCO's Division of Human Rights and Peace, together with the USSR Academy of Science and the USSR Academy of Medicine, held an international bioethics conference in Moscow May 13-15, 1991. Twenty participants from the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America participated....The Moscow conference, which took place on the new campus of the USSR Academy of Social Sciences, addressed four topics: (1) organ transplantation; (2) informed consent; (3) bioethics and the law; and (4) institutionalization of bioethics....