HELP course on the Right to the Integrity of the Person (Bioethics)

This HELP course on the Right to the Integrity of the Person (Bioethics) is part of a series of courses created by the European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals in the European Union member states (HELP in the EU) of the Council of Europe, with EU financial support, aiming to support legal professionals and to enhance their capacities to effectively and coherently apply European fundamental rights standards at the national level. 

The right to integrity of the person is a very important aspect of bioethics (biology and medicine). 

This course aims at assisting legal professionals to better identify situations of potential violations of the right to integrity of the person within the fields of medicine and biology and to apply the relevant legal framework their daily work. The course covers in an interactive way synergies and differences between the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, the European Convention on Human Rights and the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (Oviedo Convention). It also reviews the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) pointing out to problems such as medical interventions or removal of organs without consent, medically assisted procreation, physical abuse and end-of-life situations. 

The course is addressed to legal professionals (judges, prosecutors, lawyers). It consists of the following 6 substantive modules: 

• Right to the Integrity of the Person in general 
• Right to the Integrity of the Person in the specific fields of medicine and biology 
• Principle of free and informed consent 
• Prohibition of eugenics 
• Prohibition of human reproductive cloning 
• Prohibition of financial gain.

 If you are interested in this course or another, you simply need to register in order to access the website resources. An explanatory document is available to make it easier for new persons to find their way around the site. 

To access the course, firstly you need to open yourself an account at HELP website. Once logged in to the HELP platform you can click here to access the course directly.