Ethics Resources
UNESCO Bangkok Bioethics Documentation Centre
Currently over 50,000 papers, books and journals are available for scholarly access (with prior reservation of visiting date).
Bioethics teaching resources and texts
Multilingual materials for bioethics education (in a broad sense) for open access use are being compiled and shared. The pages are also available in Chinese language version for multilingual teaching resources and Chinese powerpoint files.
Linked ethics resources
- Bioscience-Bioethics Friendship Co-operative Web Portal
- Global Ethics Observatory
- International Bioethics Textbook Project Resources
- The UNESCO Chair in Bioethics - Report on Informed Consent
- UNESCO COMEST
- UNESCO International Bioethics Committee
- UNESCO Bioethics Publications list
Declarations
- Bangkok Declaration on Ethics in Science and Technology
- International Declaration on Human Genetic Data
- Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights
- Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights [ENG (PDF, 52KB) / FRE (PDF, 57KB) / CHI (PDF, 440KB) / Arabic (PDF, 400KB)
/ JAP (PDF, 246KB) - World Medical Association Statement on Medical Ethics in the Event of Disasters
UNESCO Bangkok Asia-Pacific School of Ethics
Cooperating Ethics Associations
- All India Bioethics Association
- Asia Pacific Forum of Ethics and Social Justice
- Asian Bioethics Association
- Australasian Bioethics Association
- Chinese Association of Medical Ethics
- Bangladesh Bioethics Society
- Central Asian Bioethics Association (CABA)
- Eubios Ethics Institute
- Indonesian Network of Health Bioethics and Humanities
- International Association of Bioethics
- International Society of Bioethics
- Japanese Association of Bioethics
- Korean Bioethics Association
- Turkish Medical Ethics Association
Lists of ethics publications are being compiled. There is a list of UNESCO Bioethics publications.
Codes of Ethics
UNESCO Bangkok is compiling a database of Codes of Conduct in Engineering, Science and Technology currently implemented in the Asia Pacific region.
Biosafety Regulations in Asia-Pacific
Country-by country listed and links to biosafety regulations.
Database of Selected Environmental Treaties
Table with links to treaty and country. Submissions of new links and materials are welcomed.
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Last Updated: 2 September 2012