For many scientists, doctors, and philosophers, Qatar’s hostility to many vulnerable groups makes it ill-suited to host a convention on ethical questions.
I, personally, will not go to countries where I could be arrested for just being who I am.Among those concerns were that freedom of speech at the conference could be stifled.
IAB president Nancy Jecker, a professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, declined to comment when reached by The Daily Beast. In May, however, she wrote a response to the Dutch letter in, published by the same journal.
“Our main thing was that we will, by having the World Congress in Doha, enhance the global character on the field of bioethics,” he said. Some have pointed out that this is not the first time the IAB has opted to hold its convention in a country with a questionable human rights record. In 2006, Beijing was the host city, despite China’s anti-democratic government, limited freedom of speech and persecution of religious minorities while in 2010, the bioethics congress was held in Singapore, a country with strict regulations on freedom of speech and that, at the time, criminalized sexual relations between men.
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