Since its involvement in promoting international reflection on the ethics of life sciences in the 1970s, UNESCO continues to build and reinforce linkages among ethicists, scientists, policy-makers, judges, journalists, and civil society to assist Member States in enacting sound and reasoned policies on ethical issues in science and technology.

In the context of its work on bioethics and ethics of science & technology, the Organization performs the following major functions: standard-setter, laboratory of ideas, capacity-builder and catalyst for international cooperation.

Standard-setter – pioneering normative action

Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

2021

Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights

2005

Recommendation on Science and Scientific Researchers

2017

Declaration of Ethical Principles in relation to Climate Change

2017

International Declaration on Human Genetic Data

2003

Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights

1997

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Global Forum on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Global AI Ethics and Governance Observatory

Laboratory of ideas

UNESCO addresses the emerging ethical challenges by providing an intellectual forum for multidisciplinary, pluralistic and multicultural reflection on ethics of science and technology – via the:

Capacity-building and international cooperation

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Publications

The risks and challenges of neurotechnologies for human rights
UNESCO
2023
UNESCO
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Should we be afraid of neuroscience?
UNESCO
janvier-mars 2022
UNESCO
0000380264
Charter of Ethics of Science and Technology in the Arab Region
UNESCO office Cairo
UNESCO
2019
UNESCO
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Global bioethics: what for? Twentieth anniversary of UNESCO's Bioethics Programme
UNESCO
2015
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