Human Rights at Home and Abroad: Past, Present, and Future

can also help in the subject‘s well being. The safety of test subjects would make the public less critical
about human experimentation because the causes are completely different from those of the past (from the
Nazi experiments). Also, this would create a safer environment for future scientists and researchers to
make sure that everything is running correctly and no legal actions can be made by any mistakes that are
made. Most problems involving human testing arise when researchers are exposed to having secret
research experiments. By making the guidelines mandatory, these fears can be avoided so researchers do
not conduct experiments in a harmful or unsafe way.
Many other organizations have considered these types of events and in result, have discussed
ways that they can contribute to keep test subjects in good health. The Bulletin of the World Health
Organization states:
Global challenges raised by biomedical advances require global responses. Some international
organizations have made significant efforts over the last few years to establish common standards
that can be regarded as the beginning of an international biomedical law. One of the main features
of this new legal discipline is the integration of its principles into a human rights framework. This
strategy seems the most appropriate, given the role of ‗‗universal ethics‘‘ that human rights play
in our world of philosophical pluralism. (Adorno, 2002, p. 959)
The people in this organization have found it important for human rights to be incorporated in their
studies. Their main focus is on human testing related to genetic type testing and cloning. These scientists
are thinking outside of just the results of the experiment and are making sure that everyone involved will
be in good health and therefore receive positive results. This biomedical law idea was proposed in 2002
from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, but since then has not been researched to see if their
efforts were strong enough. Cloning and genetic testing can be seen as invasive and as violating human
rights. But what if these scientists are given volunteers? Does this mean that they need to be ‗more ethical
and moral‘ and turn them down? The organization who wants to create the universal biomedical law
states: ―In spite of all its weaknesses, however, the current human rights system is the only mechanism
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