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Genetic Privacy and Non-Discrimination

E/DEC/2010/259View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

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

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 2004–2010
YearSymbolTitleWord lengthText similarity
2010
E/DEC/2010/259

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2008
E/DEC/2008/233

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2008
E/DEC/2007/269

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2004
E/DEC/2003/232

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What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects
DiscriminationHuman GeneticsPrivacy Law

What’s in this document?

6 paragraphs

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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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