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UN Charter
http://www.un.org/aboutun/charter/index.html
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_ccpr.htm
International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/b2esc.htm
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/k2crc.htm
Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and Optional Protocol
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/
Convention Against Torture (CAT)
http://www.hrweb.org/legal/cat.html
UNESCO's Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights
http://www.unesco.org/ibc/en/genome/projet/
UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
http://www.un.org/disabilities/convention/conventionfull.shtml
UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/p_genoci.htm
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR)
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights Maputo Protocol
African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR)
European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women
The policies of the WMA are expressed in various declarations. The WMA was formed in 1948 as a reaction to the atrocities committed by members of the medical profession in Europe in the pre-war and wartime period.
The WMA seeks to promote policies which are in accord with the Hippocratic tradition which they represented in modern form in the Declaration of Geneva, 1948 and as later amended. The policies of the WMA need to be taken into full account in any bioethical analysis, reflecting as they do the obligations the medical profession imposes upon itself.
A Physician's Ethical Duties - Persia 1770
Advice to a Physician - Persia 10th Century AD
Code of Ethics - Australia 2004 (editorially revised 2006)
Daily Prayer of a Physician - origins uncertain
Declaration of Geneva - World Medical Association 1949,1968,1983
Declaration of Helsinki - World Medical Association 1964
Five Commandments and Ten Requirements - China 1617
International Code of Medical Ethics - World Medical Association 1949,1968,1983
Oath of Asaph - Jewish, 3rd-7th Century AD
Oath of Hippocrates - Greece 4th Century BC
Oath of Initiation - India 1st Century AD
Oath of a Soviet Physician - Soviet Union 1971