American University of Sovereign Nations (AUSN) - Bangkok Statement on Human Gene Editing and Human Genetic Engineering from the Intercontinental Summit on Human Gene Editing & Human Genetic Engineering andSeventh Joint AUSN - Chulalongkorn University Intensive Bioethics Workshop30 January-2 February 2019 a follow-up conference confirmed the StatementCross-cultural Bioethics and Consensus Building in Troubled Times? Engineering our Genes, Societies and Environment: 8th Joint American University of Sovereign Nations (AUSN), Center of Ethics of Science and Technology, Chulalongkorn University Bioethics Roundtable, Bangkok, Thailand. 28-30 November 2019. Organized by the Center for Ethics of Science and Technology, Chulalongkorn University, American University of Sovereign Nations (AUSN) and Eubios Ethics Institute, New Zealand, Japan and Thailand; and under the auspices of United Nations Academic Impact. These were also meetings of the IAB Genetics and Bioethics networks. Contact Email: darryl@eubios.info

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Bangkok Statement on Human Gene Editing and Human Genetic Engineering

from the Intercontinental Summit on Human Gene Editing & Human Genetic Engineering and

Seventh Joint AUSN - Chulalongkorn University Intensive Bioethics Workshop

30 January-2 February 2019

a follow-up conference confirmed the Statement

Cross-cultural Bioethics and Consensus Building in Troubled Times? Engineering our Genes, Societies and Environment: 8th Joint American University of Sovereign Nations (AUSN), Center of Ethics of Science and Technology, Chulalongkorn University Bioethics Roundtable,

Bangkok, Thailand. 28-30 November 2019.

Organized by the Center for Ethics of Science and Technology, Chulalongkorn University, American University of Sovereign Nations (AUSN) and Eubios Ethics Institute, New Zealand, Japan and Thailand; and under the auspices of United Nations Academic Impact. These were also meetings of the IAB Genetics and Bioethics networks. Contact Email: darryl@eubios.info

Recent scientific events have heightened the need to re-examine the interface of international agreements on human genetic engineering and advances in human gene editing and human interventions in nature. There is a significant duty for Academies of Science, National Bioethics Commissions, and other national and regional bodies, to balance the freedom of research, human need, and scientific responsbility.

The five page statement rejected the call for a broad moratorium, instead arguing for case by case assessment of each clinial trial and for multiple fora involving all persons all round the world.

For contact relating to the Statement please contact Professor Darryl Macer

Email: darryl@eubios.info

Speakers at the November 2019 conference included Prof. Darryl Macer, USA/New Zealand; Prof. John Weckert, Australia; Profs. Soraj Hongladarom, Chutatip Umajanavi, Ananya Triptipthumrongchok, Thailand; Profs. Marlon Lofredo, Rogelio P. Bayod, Christopher Ryan Maboloc, Dexter Veloso, Aldrin Quintero, Dennis Alfaro, Ronnie Barrientos, the Philippines; Prof. Tamar Gidron, Israel; Prof. ASM Bhuiyan, Bangladesh; Prof. Osama Rajhkan, Saudi Arabia; Prof. Alex Waller, UK/Thailand; Bibek Adhikari, Nepal, among others.

Speakers included leading scientists, bioethicists, policy makers, youth, and civil society leaders from around the world! There were both scientists doing gene editing, pioneers who wrote the international guidelines on bioethics. Consider together what both our future children and our future society should look like! During the workshop we included sessions on a wide range of bioethics topics related to our future.

Speakers included:

Prof. Somsak Chunharas, Chair, Thai National Committee on Ethics of Science; Former member UNESCO World Commission on Ethics of Science and Technology (COMEST); Former, Deputy Minister of Public Health of Thailand

Prof. Darryl Macer, President, American University of Sovereign Nations, Professor of Bioethics and Biomedicine, USA/New Zealand; Founding Member, UNESCO International Bioethics Committee; Former UNESCO Regional Adviser; Former Member, Human Genome Organization Ethics Committee

Prof. Suradej Hongeng, MD., Professor of Pediatrics, Chief of Hematology Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Prof. Soraj Hongladarom, Professor and Director, Center for Ethics of Science and Technology, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand; AUSN Visiting Professor of Ethics of S&T and Philosophy

Prof. John Weckert, Professor Emeritus, Charles Sturt University, Sydney, Australia; AUSN Visiting Professor of Applied Ethics and Ethics of Science and Technology

Dr. Francis P. Crawley, Coordinator, European Fellowship in Research Ethics (EFRE); Executive Director, Good Clinical Practice Alliance - Europe (GCPA), Belgium

Prof. Angelica M Baylon, MAAP External Relations Director, the Philippines; AUSN Visiting Professor in Chemistry, Maritime Science and Community Studies

Prof. Chutatip Umavijani, Thammasat University, Thailand; AUSN Professor of Philosophy & Humanities;

Prof. Marlon Lofredo, AUSN Visiting Professor of Bioethics, Public Policy, and Environmental Ethics; St. Paul's University, Quezon City, the Philippines;

Prof. Ananya Tritipthumrongchok, Vice-President of the Asian Bioethics Association, Thailand; AUSN Professor of Fortune Telling and Leadership Development

Prof. Nilza Maria Diniz, Londrina University, Brazil; AUSN Visiting Professor of Genetics & Bioethics

Dr. Daniel Mishori, Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Prof. Deborah Kala Perkins, Loyola Marymount University, Graduate Theological Union, USA

Prof. Tamar Gidron, Law School College of Mnagement, Rishon LeZion, Law School, The Academic College, Zefat; Head of the Zefat Center for Bioethics, Israel; Chairperson of Zefat Unit of the UNESCO Chair of Bioethics Haifa

Dr. Prasit Palittapongarnpim, CHulalongkorn University Hopsital;

Prof. Dr. Alex Waller, UK;

Mr. Terry Morgan, UK;

Dr. Rogelio P. Bayod, the Philippines;

Dr. Ryan Maboloc, the Philippines;

Dr. Reynilda Salandanan, the Philippines;

Dr. Madelyn Menor, the Philippines;

Dr. Doan Thi Kim Phuong, Vietnam

Mr. Keith Aiken M. Pajarillo,

Mr. Ceo Angelo D. Fajardo,

Mr. Junel Kristian M. Semaña , and more.

Background Information

1997 Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights [English / Japanese / Thai (PDF) / Turkish (PDF, 98KB) / Indonesian / Vietnamese]

2015 On Human Gene Editing: International Summit Statement

2018 On Human Genome Editing II: Statement by the Organizing Committee of theSecond International Summit on Human Genome Editing

Kuppuswamy, C, Macer, D.R.J., Serbulea, M. and Tobin, B., Is Human Reproductive Cloning Inevitable: Future Options for UN Governance (Yokohama: United Nations University - Institute of Advanced Studies, 2007).

Videos from the 2019 Meeting are on the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9krID73bqTg&list=PL51u2JtIPZijf-iZVRM5khTgFFPYQXtJ0