http://www.who.int/bulletin/pdf/2002/bul-12-E-2002/80(12)959-963.pdf

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. Document in PDF format, required Acrobat Reader.