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News Archive - Ethics of Science and Technology |
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20-08-2009 (UNESCO) - The Regional Unit in Social and Human Sciences in Asia and the Pacific (RUSHSAP) of the UNESCO office in Bangkok is holding, on August 25 2009, a consultation of social science experts from the Asia-Pacific region within the framework of the Ethics of Energy Technologies in Asia and the Pacific (EETAP) project in Bangkok (Thailand).
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25-05-2009 (UNESCO) - At the kind invitation of the Government of Malaysia, the Sixth Ordinary Session of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) was held in Kuala Lumpur, from 16 to 19 June 2009. It focused mainly on science ethics, and on the ethical implications of climate change.
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25-05-2009 (UNESCO) - UNESCO's Sector for Social and Human Sciences calls for nominations for the Avicenna Prize 2009. The deadline for submission of proposals is 15 July 2009 at the latest.
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11-05-2009 (UNESCO) - An important meeting on nanotechnologies and development in the Arab States, which was held from 18 to 19 May 2009, in Doha (Qatar), has provided an opportunity for participants to consider the modalities of implementation of the ethical guidelines and policies which COMEST addressed to UNESCO Member States in 2007.
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06-05-2009 (UNESCO) - The 1st World Social Science Forum, organized by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) in cooperation with the University of Bergen and the Stein Rokkan Centre and supported by more than 30 partners including UNESCO, met in Bergen (Norway) from 10 to 12 May 2009, with more than 800 participants from some 40 countries*.
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17-04-2009 (UNESCO) - This draft report has been authored by the working group on environmental ethics of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST). Its aim is to serve as a point of departure for discussion among members of the scientific community of UNESCO, the NGOs working with UNESCO and Member States of UNESCO on the ethical challenges posed by global climate change.
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24-03-2009 (UNESCO) - A workshop consisting of experts from South Africa, Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Ethiopia, France, Guinea, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo took place in Lomé from 26 to 28 March to encourage the reinforcement of teaching of environmental ethics in higher education.
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17-03-2009 (UNESCO) - From 18 to 20 March 2009, a workshop of experts from Botswana, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Namibia and Nigeria was held in Dakar (Senegal). Existing teaching programmes in the field of bioethics and ethics were discussed and analysed.
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17-11-2008 (UNESCO) - A workshop of experts from Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Senegal and Togo will be held in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, from 3 to 5 December 2008. They will discuss and analyse existing teaching programs in the field of ethics and bioethics.
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06-11-2008 (UNESCO) - The Members of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) held an Extraordinary Session at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, on 12 and 13 November 2008.
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27-10-2008 (UNESCO) - UNESCO's Global Ethics Observatory (GEObs) is a system of databases with worldwide coverage in bioethics and other areas of applied ethics in science and technology. It is freely accessible online to all Member States and the general public. UNESCO officially launched the sixth GEObs database on resources in ethics at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, on 30 October 2008.
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16-10-2008 (UNESCOPRESS) - UNESCO's International Bioethics Committee (IBC) met at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris from 28 to 29 October 2008 (Room IV). This 15th session was followed by a Joint Session of the IBC and the Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee (IGBC*), on 30 and 31 October.
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04-09-2008 (UNESCO Office in Moscow) - On 1-5 July 2008 a UNESCO Seminar on Environmental Ethics was held in Moscow in the Education Center "Nakhabino".
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09-04-2008 () - The course is supported by the Belarus National Commission and the Israel National Commission for UNESCO.
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27-09-2007 (UNESCO) - This course is set up in order to provide training to ethics teachers with the purpose to enhance their skills and abilities.
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29-08-2007 (UNESCO) - The course is initiated and supported by the Slovak National Commission
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20-08-2007 (UNESCO) - UNESCO has invited well-known experts in environmental ethics for a project to describe the current situation regarding environmental ethics and to determine possibilities for international action in this area.
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21-07-2007 (UNESCO) - This course is set up to provide training to ethics teachers at the Agriculture Resources Centre Hotel (ARC Hotel), Njoro Campus, Egerton University, Egerton, Kenya.
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22-05-2007 (UNESCO Brazil) - Porto Alegre, Brazil, 22 May 2007
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21-05-2007 () - UNESCO has invited well-known experts in nanotechnology to discuss the state of the art of nanotechnology, examine the controversy surrounding its definition and explore related ethical and political issues.
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29-11-2006 (UNESCO) - For the first time since its creation, the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) will meet on the African continent on the occasion of its 5th session which will take place in Dakar, Senegal, from 6 to 9 December 2006.
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06-04-2006 (UNESCO) - UNESCO Director-General, Koïchiro Matsuura, awarded the Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science to Abdallah S. Daar, in the presence of Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi, the Iranian Minister of Science, Research and Technology on 14 April 2006 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
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16-12-2005 (UNESCO SHS Newsletter 11) - The Global Ethics Observatory – a database of all currently available resources on ethics worldwide – was officially launched on 15 December 2005, at the meeting of the International Bioethics Committee (IBC) in Tokyo, Japan.
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22-03-2005 () - The World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) will hold its fourth session in Bangkok, Thailand, from March 23 to 25.
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02-09-2004 () - Nominations for the next awarding of the Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science in 2005 are welcome, before 1 November 2004, from the governments of Member States, in consultation with their National Commissions, and from international non-governmental organizations maintaining official relations with UNESCO.
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14-05-2004 (UNESCO Flash Info n°079-2004) - The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, gave an opening address at Headquarters in Paris, on 14 May, on the occasion of the extraordinary session of COMEST.
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22-04-2004 (UNESCOPRESS) - UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura presented the Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science on 26 April 2004 to its first laureate, Margaret A. Somerville, in the presence of Jafar Towfighi, the Iranian Minister of Science, Research and Technology.
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04-12-2003 () - More than 600 people attended the Third Session of COMEST in Brazil over its four days, including students, policymakers, members of the scientific community, IGOs and NGOs.
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