The Government Contracts Unit, together with the Department of Biotechnology and in collaboration with the Development and Continuing Education Unit at the College of Science, University of Baghdad, organized a symposium entitled “International protection of the human genome” under the auspices of the Dean of the College, Assistant Professor Dr. Raed Falih Hassan, and attended several postgraduate students and department and unit members.
The symposium aimed to define international bioethics law as one of the new branches of public international law and its association with scientific and technological development within the components of biomedical medicine, as, the definition of the human genome, the statement of its legal nature.
The symposium was presented by Associate Professor Dr. Rasha Talib Abdullah and Ghafran Allawi Abdullah statement about the importance of the human genome as a common heritage of mankind, the need to conclude a conventional international convention at the global level that addresses the subject of bioethics and protects the human genome and human rights and fundamental freedoms from scientific practices and serious violations.