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This issue covers topical issues from January to March 2010:

Ethics of Science [PDF]

• Bioethics Committees networked in Mexico
• The IBC will continue research on human cloning
• Assisting Bioethics Committees: Priority for Africa in 2010
• Towards a Bioethics Committee in Kenya
• Patricio Bernal : “Climate change has become an issue for society”
• 2009 Avicenna Prize awarded to a Chinese specialist in bioethics

Human Rights [PDF]

• Arab-African migration: talking frankly in Cairo
• Somalia: the “Greater Horn Horizon” offers prospects for ending the crisis
• Poverty and human rights: decision-making tools
• A collection of books to eradicate poverty using a human rights based approach
• Two humanists share the 2009 Madanjeet Singh Prize
• Gala for the Education of Children in Need
• The right to education: handing the floor to young people
• World Philosophy Day 2009: several thousand participants in 35 countries
• First Assembly of the International Network of Women Philosophers
• Advocacy in Indonesia for more inclusive societies
• Relaunch of the African Coalition against Racism
• Latin America fuels the debate
• The European Coalition changes course 

Social Transformations [PDF]

• Meeting in Rio for cities with a human face
• Shanghai 2010 : An international exhibition on “Better City, Better Life”
• “Africities” welcomes the MOST Programme
• Argentina at the head of the MOST Programme
• Increase in Funds to Fight against Doping
• Social development: a regional framework for East Africa
• Social development: Third South-Asian Forum of Ministers
• Youth at the heart of the 1st Forum of Ministers of the Caribbean 

Publications [PDF]

• Teaching Philosophy: a UNESCO collection to understand regional challenges
• “Knowledge” and “legitimacy” on the front page of the ISSJ

Last minute [PDF]

• Preview of Invictus at UNESCO Headquarters
• Towards worldwide monitoring of youth initiatives
• The World Youth Conference in Mexico City