A/RES/56/93 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 28 January 2002 Fifty-sixth session Agenda item 174 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/56/599)] 56/93. International convention against the reproductive cloning of human beings The General Assembly, Recalling the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights, 1 adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on 11 November 1997, in particular article 11 thereof, in which the Conference specified that practices which are contrary to human dignity, such as reproductive cloning of human beings, shall not be permitted and invited States and international organizations to cooperate in taking, at the national or international level, the measures necessary in that regard, Recalling also its resolution 53/152 of 9 December 1998, by which it endorsed the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights, Bearing in mind Commission on Human Rights resolution 2001/71 of 25 April 2001, entitled “Human rights and bioethics”, 2 adopted at the fifty-seventh session of the Commission, Noting the resolution on bioethics adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on 2 November 2001, 3 in which the Conference approved the recommendations by the Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee towards the possible elaboration, within the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, of universal norms on bioethics, Aware that the rapid development of the life sciences opens up tremendous prospects for the improvement of the health of individuals and mankind as a whole, but also that certain practices pose potential dangers to the integrity and dignity of the individual, _______________ 1 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General Conference, Twenty-ninth Session, vol. I, Resolutions, resolution 16. 2 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2001, Supplement No. 3 (E/2001/23), chap. II. sect. A. 3 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General Conference, Thirty-first Session, vol. I, Resolutions, resolution 22. 01 47951