Preface (Silja Vöneky/Rüdiger Wolfrum) -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Part 1: Human Creation and Human Dignity in Religious and Ethical Perspectives -- 1. The Creation and the Dignity of Man in Islam (Reza Sheikholeslami) -- 2. The Pali Buddhist Approach to Human Cloning (Andrew Huxley) -- 3. Some Aspects of the Buddhist Assessment of Human Cloning (Jens Schlieter) -- 4. The Jewish Perspective on Cloning (Manfred Oeming) -- 5. Christianity and Western Philosophy (Robert Spaemann) -- Part 2: Human Cloning from a Scientific Perspective -- 6. Human Cloning from a Scientific Perspective (Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker) -- Part 3: Limits to Human Cloning under the German Constitution -- 7. The Human Embryo is a Person and not an Object (Christian Starck) -- 8. Does the German Basic Law Protect against Human Cloning? (Jörn Ipsen) -- 9. Does Cloning Violate the Basic Law's Guarantee of Human Dignity? (Horst Dreier) -- 10. Back to Kant! An Interjection in the Debate on Cloning and Human Dignity (Wolfgang Graf Vitzthum) -- 11. From Procreation to Generation? Constitutional and Legal-Political Issues in Bioethics (Brigitte Zypries) -- Part 4: Limits to Human Cloning in International Law -- 12. International Legal Limits to Human Cloning (Hans Lilie) -- 13. Who Is Protected by Human Rights Conventions? Protection of the Embryo vs. Scientific Freedom and Public Health (Rüdiger Wolfrum/Silja Vöneky) -- 14. The Negotiations on a Treaty on Cloning: Some Reflections (Mahnoush H. Arsanjani) -- 15. A Convention on Cloning - Annotations to an almost Unsolvable Dilemma (Spiros Simitis) -- Annex Relevant International and National Documents -- I. International Convention against the (Reproductive) Cloning of Human Beings.

1. Costa Rica: General Assembly Draft Resolution: International Convention against the Reproductive Cloning of Human Beings, 5 December 2003 (A/58/L.37) -- 2. Report of the Working Group: International Convention against the Reproductive Cloning of Human Beings, 3 October 2003 (A/C.6/58/L.9) -- 3. Belgium et al.: General Assembly Draft Resolution: International Convention against the Reproductive Cloning of Human Beings, 2 October 2003 (A/C.6/58/L.8) -- 4. USA, Costa Rica et al.: General Assembly Draft Resolution: International Convention against Human Cloning, 26 September 2003 (A/C.6/58/L.2) -- 5. Costa Rica: Letter dated 2 April 2003 from the Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General: Draft International Convention on the Prohibition of all Forms of Human Cloning, 17 April 2003 (A/58/73) -- 6. USA et al.: General Assembly Draft Resolution: International Convention against the Reproductive Cloning of Human Beings, 18 October 2002 (A/C.6/57/L.3/Rev.1) -- 7. France, Germany et al.: General Assembly Draft Resolution: International Convention against the Reproductive Cloning of Human Beings, 8 October 2002 (A/C.6/57/L.8) -- 8. General Assembly Resolution 56/93: International Convention against the Reproductive Cloning of Human Beings, 28 January 2002 (A/RES/56/93) -- II. Other International Resolutions and Declarations -- 9. Commission on Human Rights Resolution 2003/69: Human Rights and Bioethics, 25 April 2003 (E/CN.4/2003/L.11/Add.7) -- 10. World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki: Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects (2002) -- 11. General Assembly Resolution 53/152: The Human Genome and Human Rights, 10 March 1999 (A/RES/53/152).

12. World Health Organization: Resolution on Ethical, Scientific and Social Implications of Cloning in Human Health, 16 May 1998 (WHA 51.10) -- 13. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights, 11 November 1997 -- III. Council of Europe -- 14. Additional Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine, on the Prohibition of Cloning Human Beings, 12 January 1998 -- 15. Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine (Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine), 4 April 1997 -- IV. European Union -- 16. Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, 18 December 2000 (excerpts) -- 17. European Parliament Resolution on Human Cloning, 7 September 2000 -- 18. European Parliament Resolution on Cloning, 12 March 1997 -- V. German Law -- 19. Act Ensuring Protection of Embryos in Connection with the Importation and Utilization of Human Embryonic Stem Cells (Stammzellgesetz), 28 June 2002 -- 20. Act for Protection of Embryos (Embryonenschutzgesetz), 13 December 1990 -- 21. Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany (Grundgesetz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland), 23 May 1949 (excerpts).