By Rhoda Wilson
Original Article here…
In addition to a law protecting neurorights, Chile now has an employment law to protect against discrimination of mutants and genetically modified individuals. The National Congress of Chile approved a bill titled “Prohibits Labour Discrimination Against Mutations or Alterations of Genetic Material or Genetic Testing” on 16 February 2022.
The PDF for the “Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, Law number 21,422. – Prohibits employment discrimination against mutations or alterations of genetic material or genetic tests” is in Spanish so we translated it into English using Google and attached it below.
Chile is one of the most highly vaccinated countries in the world and at the beginning of February 2022 a campaign to administer a fourth dose began for most of the population. Despite the country having one of the highest vaccination rates in the world it was passing through its highest rate of infection of the entire pandemic, record infection rates, at the time the fourth dose campaign began, Associated Press reported.
Neurorights Bill
In 2021, Chile’s Senate unanimously approved a bill to amend the constitution to protect brain rights or “neurorights”. In the January 2022 edition of The UNESCO Courier a science journalist based in Santiago, Chile, wrote:
“It is now expected that the bill will be signed into law by the country’s president.
“Once the process is completed, Chile will become the world’s first country to have legislation to protect mental privacy, free will and non-discrimination in citizens’ access to neurotechnology. The aim is to give personal brain data the same status as an organ, so that it cannot be bought or sold, trafficked or manipulated.
“At the same time, a constitutional reform to amend Article 19 of the Magna Carta, the country’s constitution, is being considered to ‘protect the integrity and mental indemnity of the brain from the advances and capacities developed by neurotechnologies’.”
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