Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics 2011 Vol 2 Issue 1 Page 3 

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EDITORIAL 
 

Right to life is our fundamental human right. But rundown conditions of road across the 

country have come to such condition that we can call it nothing but death trap. Bus and truck 

drivers have no mercy for the passengers. Safe and sound journey become impossible. 

According to News paper source, there are 3.5 lakh non professional drivers in the country. 

About 10 lakh drivers in total have license. Massive killing in road accident recently 

awakened the people in all strata of life. Now we question the skill of the drivers and the 

flaws of law. According to the world health organization four thousand persons are killed 

every year in the country due to road accident.  Most of the road–crashes are caused by 

untrained, desperate and crazy drivers. These are not accident, we can call it murder. 

Unsafe journey leads us to valley of death. Media and civil society leaders have started 

campaign against the irregularities of issuing driving license without testing their skill and 

abilities. On behalf of the Bangladesh Bioethics Society we express our solidarity with this 

movement to ensure right to life.  

 

This issue of the journal contains few ethical poems representing golden rules of bioethics. It 

has an article on UNESCO Bioethics Core Curriculum and Training Recourses. The paper 

discuss the roles and challenges for teachers and institutions to empower the students to be 

matured enough to be able to participate in decision-making process. Another paper 

discusses the Ethical and Policy Concerns pertaining to Rice Landraces in Asia. An article 

depicts the picture of gender imbalance in policy making level in science and ethical issue. 

MDG will not be attained unless there is active participation of women in science and ethical 

education. Biomedical considerations in the manufacture, clinical trails and bioequivalence 

studies of pharmaceuticals emphasizes the establishment the clinical trail and 

bioequivalence norms in the manufacturing processes. I hope theses will enrich the 

knowledge of the readers. 

 

Rowshan Ara 

Professor of Philosophy 

University of Dhaka