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Click on the link to access information about the research ethics programs of the Middle East Research Ethics Training Initiative (MERETI). In addition to offering an annual one-year certificate program in research ethics, they are now offering a Masters of Science in Clinical Research with a Specialization in Research Ethics that combines face-to-face courses with distance learning. This Masters program can be taken full-time or on a part-time basis.

The Division of Ethics of Science and Technology is pleased to announce the following two recent publications in English produced as supplements to the UNESCO Bioethics Core Curriculum:

* Casebook on Human Dignity and Human Rights, and
* Casebook on Benefit and Harm.

The Core Curriculum, which was developed by a group of ethics teaching experts from diverse cultural backgrounds, is a key component of UNESCO’s strategy to promote high standards of bioethics education around the world. Based on the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (2005), it is designed to introduce the bioethical principles of the Declaration to university students. It does not impose a particular model or specific view of bioethics, but articulates ethical principles that are shared by scientific experts, policymakers and health professionals from various countries with different cultural, historical and religious backgrounds. In order to ensure a flexible application of this tool, the Curriculum invites teachers and students to expand its contents and approaches based on the local context.

The new casebooks are part of the UNESCO Bioethics Core Curriculum Casebook Series, designed to be used with the Core Curriculum, or as stand-alone study material for one of the bioethical principles in the Declaration. In order to encourage wide dissemination and usage of this series, the casebooks are freely available in hardcopy, in CD-ROM as well as for electronic download. These casebooks will also be translated into French soon.

If you would like to receive hardcopies and/or CD-ROMs of the casebooks, please send an email to geobs@unesco.org with your mailing address and the number of copies of each item (subject to the availability of stock).

Electronic copies of the casebooks and the core curriculum are available for download as follows:

Casebook on Human Dignity and Human Rights (in English only):

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001923/192371e.pdf

Casebook on Benefit and Harm (in English only):

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001923/192370e.pdf

UNESCO Bioethics Core Curriculum Section 1 (Syllabus):

Arabic: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0016/001636/163613a.pdf

English: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0016/001636/163613e.pdf

French: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0016/001636/163613f.pdf

Russian: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0016/001636/163613r.pdf

Spanish: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0016/001636/163613s.pdf

UNESCO Bioethics Core Curriculum Section 2 (Study Materials):

A new version of Section 2 will be launched in a separate announcement in the coming weeks.

Further study materials related to the Bioethics Core Curriculum and to ethics teaching in general could also be accessed from the Global Ethics Observatory (GEObs) Database on Resources in Ethics (http://www.unesco.org/shs/ethics/geobs).

Please contact the Division for any questions, comments or feedback (email: geobs@unesco.org).