Genetic Privacy and Non-Discrimination

E/DEC/2010/259View PDF

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A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, published in 2010.

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4 versions · 2004–2010

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2010	E/DEC/2010/259	Genetic privacy and non-discrimination	230	18%Compare
2008	E/DEC/2008/233	Genetic privacy and non-discrimination	274	18%Compare
2008	E/DEC/2007/269	Genetic privacy and non-discrimination	88	28%Compare
2004	E/DEC/2003/232	Genetic privacy and non-discrimination	88	–

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3 subjects

Discrimination Human Genetics Privacy Law

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At its 46th plenary meeting, on 23 July 2010, the Economic and Social Council, having considered the note by the Secretary-General58 transmitting a note by the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization submitted in response to Council decision 2008/233 of 22 July 2008:

(a) Decided to defer its consideration of genetic privacy and non-discrimination until its substantive session of 2011 so as to benefit from further, more substantive information collected from Member States, from the results of analysis by the Inter-Agency Committee on Bioethics and from further exchanges among United Nations agencies and other intergovernmental organizations on the issue;

52 E/2010/10. 53 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2010, Supplement No. 23 (E/2010/43). 54 E/2010/89. 55 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 41 (A/65/41). 56 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2009, Supplement No. 8A (E/2009/28/Add.1). 57 Ibid., Supplement No. 10A (E/2009/30/Add.1). 58 E/2010/82.

194. (b)

Also decided to encourage the Inter-Agency Committee on Bioethics to further its work in this field;

(c) Requested the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to report thereon to the Council at its substantive session of 2011.

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