SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY and HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

Unit I -Conceptual Perspective

- Inter-relationship of Science, Technology and Human Rights

- Various International Legal Framework for Right to Enjoy Science and Technology
(UDHR & Impact on Scientific and Technological Progress)
- Science, Law & Technology
- Threats to Human Rights by Science & Technology
- Different aspects of Science & Technology and its impact on human rights

Unit II – Biotechnology & Human Rights –

- Impact of Biotechnology on Agriculture;

- BT Agriculture as commercial industry
- Impact of Biotechnology on Health Sector
- Impact of Biotechnology on Energy Industry
- Genetically Modified Organisms
- Transgenic and cloned Animals
- Impact of Biotechnology as threat and as an advantage to Human Rights

Medical Advancement & Human Rights –

- Possibility of higher Organ Transplant due to Health Care Technologies & Alarming risk of Organ
Trafficking
- Human performance augmenting drugs & technologies;
- Experimentation on Human Beings –
- Impact of Clinical Trials on Human Rights
- Access to Medicine & Drug Technology

Reproductive Technology & Human Rights –

- Human Cloning;
- In-Vitro fertilization;
- Surrogate Parenthood;
- Abortion – A Dilemma between reproductive rights of a woman & Right of the foetus
- Sex Determination Test;
- Sex reassignment Surgery;
Unit III- Life sustaining technologies & Human Right –

- Artificial organs
- Stem Cell Research
- Inclusive Technologies like Prosthesis & Rights of Disabled
- The technology of Euthanasia & Right to Die in Dignity & Peace

Unit IV – Nuclear Technology & Human Rights –

- Use of Nuclear Technology

- India & Nuclear Technology
- Liability of Nuclear Disaster

Investigative Technology, Torture & Human Rights

- DNA Profiling
- Brain Mapping
- Lie – Detector Test
- Death Penalty through electric chair, gas chamber and lethal injection
- Impact of Investigative Technology on Human Rights

Unit V - Digital Technology & Human Rights –

- Good Governance through Digital Technology

- Human Rights and Encryption;
- Algorithmic Transparency
- Digital Technology and Right to Privacy