United Nations University
Institute of Advanced Studies, Yokohama, Japan
10-Nov-2007
Report says ban on human reproductive cloning, coupled with restricted therapeutic research, is global compromise most likely to succeed
The world community quickly needs to reach a compromise that outlaws reproductive cloning or prepare to protect the rights of cloned individuals from potential abuse, prejudice and discrimination, according to authors of a new policy analysis by the United Nations University’s Institute of Advanced Studies (http://www.ias.unu.edu/).
A legally-binding global ban on work to create a human clone, coupled with freedom for nations to permit strictly controlled therapeutic research, has the greatest political viability of options available to the international community, says the report: Is Human Reproductive Cloning Inevitable: Future Options for UN Governance, released Nov. 12 by A.H. Zakri, Director of UNU-IAS, based in Yokohama, Japan.
News release: www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-11/unu-hcn110507.php
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