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From left to right: Thomas Nickel, Albert Ramon,
Alberto Garcia and Thomas Otto
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According to the mission of creating an appropriate framework to guide the implementation of ethical principles, Professor Alberto Garcia, Director of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights headquartered in Rome, Italy, has signed a document that guarantees an International Code of Ethics. It has been taken by leading European network of research centers in adult stem cells: ITERA and ITERM. Both, ITERM (Institute of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine) and ITERA (International Tissue Engineering Research Association) have proposed this international Code of Ethics for all institutions that are part of those agencies. This Code is in line with the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights of UNESCO (2006).
ITERA signed by its President, Prof. Albert Ramon. Prof. Thomas Otto made by ITERM.
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History of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights
On May 28, 2009, the Director-General of the UNESCO signed the agreement for the establishment of the UNESCO Chair. The rectors of the two universities which submitted the proposal for the founding of the UNESCO Chair, Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum and the Università Europea di Roma, signed the agreement on July 7, 2009. During this past year, there has been constant communication with officials of the Italian Commission.
Alberto Garcia currently directs the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights under the auspices of Institute of Bioethics and Human Rights. A Board of Director has been formally established and had several meetings. At present, three fellows collaborate with the Chair in the areas of Neurobioethics, Bioethics and Mass Media, and Bioethics, Multiculturalism and Religion.
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 The Neurobioethics Group published their first article, "Consciousness and the end of life issues: a multi and interdisciplinary proposal by the Neurobioetica Research and Study Group in Rome" in the Proceedings of the Conference of the National Forensic and Legal Medicine Association, Ancona, Italy (September 29th - October 2nd). The authors of this article are: R. Amante V.A., Amodio G., Chieragatti P., Ciadamidaro, M. Farisco, A. Garcia, A. Gini, R. Luna, M.A. Mangione, P.R. Pascual, L.C., A. Soddu.
Italian title: R. Amante V.A., Amodio G., Chieragatti P., Ciadamidaro, M. Farisco, A. Garcia, A. Gini, R. Luna, M.A. Mangione, P.R. Pascual, L.C., A. Soddu, "La Coscienza e le cosiddette Questioni di âFine Vitaâ: lâapproccio multi e interdisciplinare proposto dal Gruppo di Neurobioetica," ATTI DEL CONGRESSO NAZIONALE DI MEDICINA LEGALE, Ancona, 29 settembre - 2 ottobre 2009
Global Values Made Visible: The UNESCO Global Art Exhibit Unveiled in the UN Headquarters Gives a Human Face to Abstract Concepts
Michael Baggot
UNESCO Chair Correspondent
“How would you create an image of respect for vulnerable people?”
 Those gathered at the General Assembly entrance of the United Nations Headquarters Building the evening of October 3 found breathtaking artistic responses to this question during the unveiling ceremony of the eleven winning pieces of the UNESCO Chair of Bioethics and Human Rights Global Art Competition.
“As I survey this exhibit and its call for artists to create art that deepens the appreciation for human life, I am reminded of a quote by G.K. Chesterton, who stated, ‘Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere,’” stated the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, Archbishop Francis Chullikatt .
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 From October 9-11, 2011 the UNESCO Chair has invited a group of experts from six religions to attend a workshop which will discuss the Principle of Vulnerability according the the UNESCO Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.
We have finalized the list of participants representing Buddhism, Chrsitianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism. They hail from China, France, India, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand and USA.
Mark your calendar for the open session on Oct 11, 2011 afternoon. See more about the program and schedule of this event. The workshop is a closed door event only for paper presenters and bioethics experts, however those interested in attending can contact the
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of the event.
Other activities includes tour of the Borghese museum, the Synagogue of Rome, and audience with the Pope.
This event will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the School of Bioethics.
The winners of the Bioethics Global Art Competition depicting the principle of vulnerability will be exhibited during the event
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The 2012 Summer Course in Bioethics organized by the School of Bioethics and the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights of the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical university will be held on July 2nd through July 13th.
The topic of the course will be: “Neurobioethics: The Human Person at the center of Neuroscience, Ethics, Law and Society”.
The new discipline of Neurobioethics makes use of empirical sciences in a continuous dialogue and partnership with the humanities, and pays particular attention to both neuroscientific data and the ethical, social and legal implications entailed in this area of knowledge and its applications, since it has been shown that they might affect the very concept of human person.
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Four posters whose authors are among the members of our Neurobioethics Group have been presented at the International Neuroethics Society (INS) Annual Meeting, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington DC, November 10th -11th. One of them, regarding the activities (present and future) of our group was also presented at the Society for Neuroscience, Convention Center, Novembre 12th-16th. Two of the posters presented at the INS were particularly appreciated; their respective abstracts will be published in the Journal of Bioethics – Neuroscience (2012).
The title and authors of the abstracts are shown below (the posters' abstracts that will be published are indicated by an asterix):
*1) NEUROSCIENCE NEWS JOURNALISM IN ITALY: WHEN ETHICAL STANDARDS MAKE THE DIFFERENCE by Pensieri C., Cavallotto A. and Gini A.
*2) HOW THE CRIMINAL “SHAPES” THE CRIME : A NEUROCOGNITIVE MODEL FOR PSYCHIATRIC FORENSIC EVALUATION by Casartelli L., Gini A., Baertschi B.
3) RACING FOR (NEUROCOGNITIVE ENHANCEMENT) : WHEN THE TRUE HUMAN PERSON IS AT THE STARTING BLOCKS by Gini A, Farisco M. and Benanti P.
4) THE ITALIAN NEUROBIOETHICS STUDY AND RESEARCH GROUP: PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE NEUROSCIENCES FROM A PERSONALISTIC APPROACH by Gini A. and Benanti P.
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Religious perspectives on human vulnerability
By
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, LC, MD, PhD.
Fellow, UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights
 Who are the vulnerable? What are the proper attitudes and responses toward them, especially in the field of biomedicine?
These were the questions discussed at a recent workshop held in Rome from October 9-11, with experts hailing from six world religions—Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism. This was a follow-up to similar conferences held in Jerusalem two years ago organized by the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights.
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Bioethics Made Personal: An Interview with UNESCO Chair Global Art Competition Board Member on the Artistic and Ethical Significance of the Exhibit
An interview with Hallie Moore by Michael Baggot
What is the value of the UNESCO Chair Global Art Exhibit?
This exhibit offers the viewer insights into accomplished artists' capacity to make visible such abstractions as "vulnerability." We are creatures who with our five senses understand the objective world. We can see, smell, feel, hear, taste the sensory world. But the abstract concepts that this exhibit highlights: respect for the vulnerable, concern for the ethics of life, these are difficult ideas. Such an exhibit as this one, puts a face on these abstractions. We see the aged, the ill, the impoverished and forgotten, and we are moved to offer compassion.
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 Alberto Garcia and Joseph Tham visited the Thurgood Marshall School of Law and the University of Houston Law Center, both located in Houston, Texas in September, 2011.
At Thurgood Marshcall they met with the faculty members, the dean of the law school and explained to some freshmen the concept, history and implications of human rights and its relationship with bioethics and human dignity. 
They also spoke to students at the Honors program of the Health Law & Policy Institute, University of Houston Law Center, on a similar topic of human rights and bioethics.
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