While science and technology offer opportunities for generating higher standards of living for millions of people and thereby fulfill such goals like the millennium development goals); science and technology is at the same time creating unprecedented problems like Greenhouse gases emissions, environment destruction, biotechnological revolutions e.g., in the health sector, all of which threaten the dignity and sanctity of human life
(i) By the end of this course, learners will know how every advance in scientific and technological knowledge has affected human rights. (ii) Learners will be able to relate specific scientific and technological developments to specific human rights issues. (iii) Learners will be able to appreciate the complexities debates of biotechnological knowledge, and how this is affecting areas like reproductive health. (iv) Related to number (iii) above, learners will be able to the human rights issues at critically examine Stake in such areas like reproductive health, genetic engineering.
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