Declaration of Geneva

The Declaration of Geneva of the World Medical Association binds the physician with the words the health of my patient will be my first consideration, and the International Code of Medical Ethics declares that medical progress is based on research, which ultimately must rest in part on experimentation involving human subjects. In medical research on human subjects, considerations related to the well being of the human subject should take precedence over the interests of science and society. ... 

The Declaration of Geneva of the World Medical Association binds the physician with the words, The health of my patient will be my first consideration, and the International Code of Medical Ethics declares that. 

With human rights abuses such as these, there is more than enough justification to continue to legislate against abuse or at least to try to define what is unethical. The Nuremberg Code formed the basis of the Declaration of Geneva Physician s Oath (1948). This was adopted by General Assembly of the newly formed World Medical Association (WMA). It was looked on as a modernization of the Hippocratic Oath and was an attempt to focus the individual physician s attention on medical ethics. 

Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS). 1990. The Declaration of Inuyama Human Genome Mapping, Genetic Screening and Gene Therapy. Geneva CIOMS. Available at http //www.cioms.ch/index.html [Accessed January 12, 2006]. 

ELO (2006) Tripartite declaration of principles concerning multinational enterprises and social policy. International Labour Office, Geneva, http //www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/ multi/download/declaration(2006).pdf. Accessed 4 June 2014 ISO Standard 26000 (2010) Guidance on social responsibihty. ISO (International Organization for Standardization), Geneva... 

Bearing in mind the Final Declaration of the Conference of States Parties to the 1925 Geneva Protocol and Other Interested States, held in Paris from 7 to 11 January 1989, in which participating States stressed their determination to prevent any recourse to chemical weapons by completely eliminating them. 

UNHCR (2002) Declaration of States Parties to the 1951 Convention and or its 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, HCR/MMSP/2001/09, 16 January, Geneva. 

The idea of punishing war plots and invasions had almost no legal foundation before World War I. Between the two World Wars, the Geneva and Paris Conventions had condemned such acts and in fact declared them generally outlawed. Until the international trial at Numberg, however, none of these declarations had even been tested judicially. 

Sampling Procedures for Inspection by Attributes - Part 4 Procedures for Assessment of Declared Quality Levels , ISO 2859-4 2002, International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Geneva, Switzerland, 2002. 

Correa, C. M. 2002. Implications of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health. Geneva WHO. Available at http //www.who.int/medicines/areas/policy/WHO EDM PAR 2002.3.pdf [Accessed February 7, 2006]. 

Some may argue that it was the existence of the Geneva Convention that prevented chemical weapon use in the Second Word War but the size of the stockpiles in various countries does not really support this argument. When one looks at the size of the US and USSR stockpiles declared under the Chemical Weapons Convention 1997, it becomes apparent that very large quantities were considered necessary to be militarily effective. There is such a significant logistic burden in deploying such stocks that any commander would like to be confident about the outcome. This may be another reason why chemicals were not used. 

BZ was stockpiled by the US military forces in 1980. However, in 1992, a US delegation to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva declared that their stocks of BZ were destroyed. It is not known if stocks of BZ are held by any other armed forces. The military use of BZ was limited to... 

United Nations, Review Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and ToxinWeapons and on their Destruction, 3-21 March 1980, Final Declaration, BWC/CONF.1/10, Geneva, 1980 (available at http //www.opbw.org). 

See Working Paper Submitted by Germany and Sweden, Proposed Language for Article III - Declarations, presented to the thirteenth session of the AHG, Geneva, 7 January 1999, Document BWC/AD HOC GROUP/WP.340. 

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