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2022-08-22

A timely reminder of the Nuremberg Trials and the establishment of the Code with regard to the control of medical experiments on people.

This 75th Annual Commemoration was called by the Action Alliance 75 Years Nuremberg Code.

You can also watch the video (6hrs 38 minutes!) of the event. 

Too few seem to remember the Nuremberg code these days, so perhaps we should offer a handy pocket-sized reminder (A6 double-sided foldable).

We might also remind ourselves that the excuse that "I was following orders" was rejected, and the guilty parties were hanged.

The current legal situation is not entirely clear-cut but it contributed to the Declaration of Helsinki and to the UN's International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, it also became the prototype for codes of ethical practice across the globe.

It has effectively become law in most countries by virtue of an assortment of human rights laws and the common law on assault and battery.