UNESCO’s mandates are carried out by five major sectors of Social and Human Sciences, Education, Natural Sciences, Culture, Communication and Information. Bioethics program is part of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology within the Social and Human Sciences Sector. The program houses two advisory bodies; International Bioethics Committee (IBC) and Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee (IGBC). Briefly the Program has the mission of providing the background of an intellectual forum where reflection on the ethical issues arising from technological developments in the field of life sciences takes place and guidelines are drawn and standard setting documents such VI as Declarations are prepared that can be used by States as guiding documents in policy making and implementation. The Program is aslo instrumental to assist in setting up of national ethics committees, information centres and such bodies that will increase the capacity of member states to incorporate bioethical norms in decision making in areas like health care delivery and health research. Lastly education and awareness raising is another major goal of the Program where specialists as well as the general public and decision makers are targeted.