This course intends to introduce the students to the UNESCO Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights as one of the most significant instruments of the International Human Rights Law specifically in relation with the field of bioethics. Approved by acclamation in 2005 193 of the UN system declared 15 universal ethical principles to be considered in medicine life science and associated technologies. This Declaration has important ethical legal political and social implications that would be recalled and described during this monographic course. In addition the course will offer students the possibility of using tools and developing skills to apply the UNESCO Declaration to analyze its principles and to evaluate them in comparison with personalist bioethics and Social Teaching of the Church.