Bioethics Education Material available in Arabic
Formal Education
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Key UNESCO bioethics education
material is now translated into Arabic and accessible online on the UNESCO
website. This was done as part of the project “Ethics education and knowledge based
policy dialogue in the time of climate change in the Arab region” (2019-2021),
implemented by UNESCO Offices in Beirut and Cairo. The work has been
generously funded by The Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud Foundation, the Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia.
The material includes
These casebooks are part of the Bioethics Core Curriculum (BCC), which was designed based on a global agreement of principles
adopted in the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (2005). This 30-hour training course can accommodate
different cultural settings, be offered as elective courses, and inspire the
development of a full master program in itself. It has been used as one of the
parameters in some countries to evaluate ethics teaching in medical schools. In
addition, a Memorandum of Understanding can be signed with universities
interested in its implementation, with no financial implication, to facilitate
the support of and collaboration with UNESCO. To date, it has
been implemented by more than 40 universities around the world.
