Global Summit of National Bioethics Committees
Seventh Global Summit. Paris, 1-2 September 2008
Overview
The summit was organized around three main themes, the respect of the person, the autonomy of the person and the essential topic of the relationships between the Ethics committees and the public debate. The largest place has been given to discussion both after the talks and at the end of the day in the form of a dedicated debate on the themes of the day.
In addition, the last session of the meeting was devoted to the activities of international organizations such as UNESCO, the European Council, the COMETH, the European Commission, and the World Health Organization. p.1/9 Patrick Gaudray, July 2010 The Division for Ethics of WHO expressed its wish to be informed of the work performed by the National Bioethics Committees, so that it can make them easily accessible to all the Committees. It wishes also to facilitate exchanges between small groups of two or three Committees, some recently established, others older, in order to support experience sharing, and finally to develop an ethical survey and a real capacity to detect problems before they come to light, in order to stand in a phase of Ethics that would be more proactive than reactive.