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HERRERA FRAGOSO, Agustín A.; CASCIANO, Antonio; GUERRA GALICIA, Carlos M.  e  HADDAD RIOS, Sebastían. Comments on Human Rights Committee Draft General Comment No. 36 on article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, on the right to life. Med. ética [online]. 2019, vol.30, n.2, pp.427-603.  Epub 21-Ago-2023. ISSN 2594-2166.

In July 2017, the Human Rights Committee prepared the draft General Comment No. 36 on article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, on the human right to life. The opportunity to provide comments was welcomed and a comprehensive transdisciplinary document was sent commenting with regard to this right, focused from a biological sciences, philosophical anthropology and bio-juridical perspective, according to the corpus iuris of human rights, presenting an ontological and deontological structure in accordance with the current scientific evidence, on the right to human life, particularly in its beginning and end, from an inclusive and objective human perspective, to be taken into account by the members of the Committee, in order to reformulate stances that violate this right.

Palavras-chave : Human rights; human embryo; human life; palliative care; human person.