" On Transplanting Human Fetal Tissue: Presumptive Duties and the Task of Casuistry.

Organ donation in Sri Lanka was ratified by the Human Tissue Transplantation Act No. 48 of 1987.

* Human Tissue Donation-NPR News Investigation

The resultant legislation from these scandals ( namely the Human Tissue Act 2004 ) has tightened up the availability of resources to anatomy departments.

The UK Parliament created specific legislation for Plastination exhibits in England and Wales under the Human Tissue Act 2004.

This requires a licence to be granted by the Human Tissue Authority.

The Human Tissue ( Scotland ) Act 2006 – which amended the Anatomy Act 1984 – covers Scotland.

In the United Kingdom, the Human Organ Transplants Act 1989 first made organ sales illegal, and has been superseded by the Human Tissue Act 2004.

In the UK, there were no restrictions on paternity tests until the Human Tissue Act 2004 came into force in September 2006.

This document is currently under review, and responsibility for it has been transferred to the Human Tissue Authority.

In the UK, following the Human Tissue Act 2004 all organs and tissue must be returned to the body unless permission is given by the family to retain any tissue for further investigation.

She became chair of the Human Tissue Authority in 2005.

In-Cabin Payloads include the Microgravity Plant Nutrient Experiment MPNE, the Shuttle Ionospheric Modification with Pulsed Local Exhaust ( SIMPLEX ), the Closed Equilibrated Biological Aquatic System ( CEBAS ), the TeleMedicine Instrumentation Pack ( TMIP ), Global Positioning System Development Test Objective ( GPS DTO ), the Human Performance ( HP ) Experiment, MSD, EarthKAM, Orbiter Space Vision System ( OSVS ) Shuttle Condensate Collection ( RME-1331 ), the Thermo-Electric Holding Module ( TEHM ), the Space Linear Acceleration Mass Measurement Device ( DSO 914 ), the Co-Culture Experiments ( CoCult ) and the Biochemistry of 3-D Tissue Engineering ( BIO3D ).

The use of bodies for scientific research in the UK is now governed by the Human Tissue Authority.

In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration regulates cord blood under the category of “ Human Cells, Tissues, and Cellular and Tissue Based-Products .” The Code of Federal Regulations under which the FDA regulates public and private cord blood banks is Title 21 Section 1271.

In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration regulates cord blood under the category of “ Human Cells, Tissues, and Cellular and Tissue Based-Products .” The Code of Federal Regulations under which the FDA regulates public and private cord blood banks is Title 21 Section 1271.

Cord blood banks in the UK, both public and private, must be licensed by the Human Tissue Authority in order to release transplants to hospitals in the National Health Service.

The Act was repealed by the Anatomy Act 1984 which was, in turn, repealed by Human Tissue Act 2004.

Access to corpses for the use of medical science in the UK is now regulated by the Human Tissue Authority.

However in Scotland this is still governed by amendments ( under the Human Tissue ( Scotland ) Act 2006 ) to the existing Anatomy Act, and Scotland will retain an Inspector of Anatomy.

In the UK, the Human Tissue Act 2004 ( HTA ) dictated that donors must prove a familiar or long-term relationship or enduring friendship, for instance by providing photographs of themselves together spread over a period of time or a birth or wedding certificate.

Purely altruistic donation to strangers has recently been accepted by the Human Tissue Authority in the United Kingdom, but as of December 2007 only four people had been given permission to do this under the HTA.

The Human Tissue Authority is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom that regulates the removal, storage, use and disposal of human bodies, organs and tissue for a number of scheduled purposes such as research, transplantation, and education and training.

In 2002 the Prison Reform Trust warned that Dartmoor Prison may be breaching the Human Rights Act 1998 due to severe overcrowding at the jail.

Since the passage of the Human Rights Act 1998, the courts have been able to declare an Act of Parliament to be incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights, but such a declaration of incompatibility has no legal effect unless and until it is acted upon by the government.

New Zealand prohibits hate speech under the Human Rights Act 1993.

This discretion has been heavily litigated in light of the Human Rights Act 1998, which means that juries are required now in a broader range of situations than expressly required by statute.

Since the Human Rights Act 1998 came into force, in those cases alone, the inquest is now to consider the broader question " by what means and in what circumstances ".

The Human Rights ( Jersey ) Law 2000 makes Convention rights part of Jersey law and is based closely on the United Kingdom's Human Rights Act 1998.

::( c ) Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights, imported into English law by the Human Rights Act 1998 provides that a person of unsound mind may only be detained where proper account of objective medical expertise has been taken.

* The North Korean Human Rights Act: Documents and Background Materials

Constitutional rights are protected under common law and are strengthened by the Bill of Rights Act 1990 and Human Rights Act 1993, although these are not entrenched and can be overturned by Parliament with a simple majority.

* 1979 – The Department of Education Organization Act is signed into law creating the US Department of Education and US Department of Health and Human Services.

Coercive plea bargaining has been criticized on the grounds that it infringes an individual's rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, incorporated in the UK's Human Rights Act 1998.

For example, Tony Blair, whose Labour party was elected in 1997 partly on a promise to enact a British Bill of Rights and to create devolved governments for Scotland and Wales, subsequently stewarded through Parliament the Human Rights Act ( 1998 ), the Scotland Act ( 1998 ) and the Government of Wales Act ( 1998 ).

The Human Rights Act 1998 incorporates the great majority of Convention rights directly into UK law.

* The proposed bill of rights for the United Kingdom enshrining human rights into British law to complement or replace the existing Human Rights Act 1998

In the Illinois Senate, Washington's main focus worked to pass 1980's Illinois Human Rights Act.

As a social activist, Bono became a spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign, promoted National Coming Out Day, campaigned for the reelection of Bill Clinton for US President, campaigned against the Defense of Marriage Act, and served as Entertainment Media Director for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation ( GLAAD ).

While largely superseded in the current practice of the inter-American human rights system by the more elaborate provisions of the American Convention on Human Rights ( in force since 18 July 1978 ), the terms of the Declaration are still enforced with respect to those states that have not ratified the Convention, such as Cuba and the United States.

It was, however, superseded by a protocol creating the African Court of Justice and Human Rights, which will incorporate the already established African Court on Human and Peoples ' Rights and have two chambers — one for general legal matters and one for rulings on the human rights treaties.