International legal regulation of somatic human rights

Abstract

A problem statement. The development of biology and medicine has led to the formation of a new philosophical discipline and section of applied ethics - bioethics. In the legal field, this development can be traced to the emergence of a new group of human rights - somatic rights, relating to the human authority to dispose of his body intervention. The author`s aim is to analyze international legal acts that directly or indirectly relate to the legal regulation of somatic rights, as well as, the practice of protection of such rights in the European Court of Human Rights. Аnalysis of research and publications. Bioethical issues are increasingly attracting the attention of authors working in various fields of scientific knowledge, among them Ę J. Sudo, Di Bernardo J., Ramon L. Lucas, E. Zgrechcha, B. Yudin, A. Ivanyushkin, M. Chashchin, O. Lishchynska-Mylyan, S. Pustovit, I. Boyko and others. P. Witte, S. Stetsenko, I. Senyuta, R. Grevtsova, M. Medvedev, A. Abashidze, A. Solntsev, E. Tarasyants. In other way, Sedova, A. Ovsyuk, P. Tishchenko, G. Tereshkevich, O. Kashintseva explore the legal problems of bioethics, in particular, their international legal aspects. The main text. The article examines how bioethical, biomedical and somatic rights are enshrined in the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity in the Use of Biological and Medical Achievements 1997: the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (Oviedo Convention). The case law of the European Court of Human Rights examines the main groups of violated rights of applicants, which are indirectly related to the protection of bioethical, biomedical and somatic rights, namely: violations of reproductive human rights (right to legal abortion, right to give birth at home), violation of consent to medical examination or treatment, violation of the rights of HIV-infected / serious diseases. Two main features of the introduction of bioethical standards in lawmaking are considered: ensuring a balance of interests (holism against individualism) and the application of the precautionary principle as one of the ethical principles. Conclusions. Despite the fact that the right to health refers to international human rights standards, the implementation of which is carried out at both national and international levels, at present, neither at the universal level nor at the regional level. levels do not create specialized international legal mechanisms for the protection of biomedical rights. In most cases, these rights are protected by recourse to the European Court of Human Rights for finding violations of the relevant articles of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: the right to life, the prohibition of torture, and privacy.