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28-10-2009 (UNESCO) - The Sixteenth Session of UNESCO's International Bioethics Committee (IBC) will take place in Mexico City (Mexico) from 23 to 25 November 2009. Organized in cooperation with the Consejo Consultivo de Ciencias of the Presidency of Mexico, it will be followed by a European Commission-UNESCO conference of experts and members of national bioethics committees from around the world from 26 to 28 November. Initially planned for last May, the two meetings were postponed due to the A(H1N1) flu epidemic.
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10-08-2009 (UNESCO) - The Republic of El Salvador has established a National Bioethics Commission. The Commission has been created by decree of the Minister of Public Health and Social Assistance.
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30-04-2009 (UNESCO) - In the context of the UNESCO project Assisting Bioethics Committees (ABC), the Republic of Guinea has established a National Bioethics Committee. The Committee has been created by decree of the Minister of Education and Scientific Research.
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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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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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20-10-2008 (UNESCO) - The 3rd International Francophone Bioethics Meeting will be held in Quebec (Canada), from 20 to 22 October 2008. The meeting will focus on the topic: “Bioethics: a new space for governance, diversity and sharing in Francophone countries”.
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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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02-10-2008 () - A technical mission is scheduled from 26 to 28 January 2009.
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11-07-2008 (UNESCO Office in Bangkok) - Seoul, Republic of Korea, 29-30 July 2008
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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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08-04-2008 (UNESCO Office in Moscow) - This book consists of a set of recommendations, which can be used by the journalist community as guidelines for covering issues related to bioethics in mass media.
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03-04-2008 () - The First Meeting for the Eastern Mediterranean and Arab Region will be held in the Kuwait Hall of Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office of the World Health Organization in Egypt from 12 to 14 August 2008.
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20-02-2008 () - This book addresses issues from the general bioethical principles of medical practice in modern world to its special norms in medical assistance in emergency situations.
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19-10-2007 (UNESCO) - This guidebook is intended to assist the members of all four forms of Bioethics Committees to pursue their knowledge of the complex multi-disciplinary field of bioethics.
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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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14-09-2007 (UNESCO) - A technical mission is scheduled from 15 to 16 November 2007.
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29-08-2007 (UNESCO) - The course is initiated and supported by the Slovak National Commission
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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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14-07-2007 (UNESCO) - In the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights are the principles of “Consent” and “Social responsibility” with regard to health. These two principles are on the agenda of the next Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee meeting - UNESCO Paris, 19-20 July 2007.
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15-05-2007 (UNESCO) - At the kind invitation of the Government of Kenya, the Fourteenth (ordinary) Session of the International Bioethics Committee (IBC) will be held in Nairobi, from 17 to 19 May 2007.
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09-07-2005 (UNESCO) - 11-13 July 2005, Dakar, Senegal
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24-02-2005 (UN) - 18 February 2005: Concluding its work for the fifty-ninth session, the Sixth Committee (Legal) this afternoon recommended to the General Assembly the adoption of a declaration on human cloning by which Member States would be called on to prohibit all forms of human cloning inasmuch as they are incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life.
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21-01-2005 (UNESCO) - The International Congress of Bioethics 2005 will be held in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran, from 26 to 28 March 2005. This Congress will be co-organized by UNESCO, the National Research Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NRCGEB) of Iran and the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran (MSRT).
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08-10-2004 (UNESCO) - The opening of a new Regional Bioethics Centre in Vilnius was celebrated during a conference organized in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 13 September 2004. The Centre has been set up in the Medical Faculty of the University of Vilnius thanks to the joint efforts of the Lithuanian National Commission for UNESCO and UNESCO.
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17-10-2003 (Press Release No.2003-83) - Five standard-setting instruments, including the International Convention on the Preservation of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and the International Declaration on Human Genetic Data, were adopted by the 32nd session of UNESCO’s General Conference that ended today, and which was marked by the return of the United States of America to the Organization and by the adoption of a real-growth budget of US$ 610 million for 2004-2005.
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17-10-2003 (Press Release No.2003-81) - “Every effort should be made to ensure that human genetic data and human proteomic data are not used for purposes that discriminate in a way that is intended to infringe, or has the effect of infringing human rights, fundamental freedoms or human dignity of an individual or for purposes that lead to the stigmatization of an individual, a family, or a group or communities,” reads one of the provisions of the International Declaration on Human Genetic Data, which has just been adopted by the UNESCO General Conference meeting in Paris for its 32nd Session.
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09-10-2003 (Press Release No 2003 - 72) - Human genetic data should soon have its own standard-setting instrument: an international declaration setting out the ethical principles that should govern their collection, processing, storage and use. A draft declaration is being examined by UNESCO’s General Conference, which is meeting in Paris for its 32nd session until October 17.
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25-06-2003 () - UNESCO House, Paris, 25 to 27, 28 or 29 June 2003
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20-06-2003 () - UNESCO House (Paris), 23 and 24 June 2003
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