The observatory is a system of databases with worldwide coverage in bioethics and other areas of applied ethics in science and technology such as environmental ethics, science ethics, and technology ethics. It is designed to serve as a valuable reference, collaborative, consultative, and comparative resource hub of ethics activities around the world. The observatory is also intended to become a crucial platform for supporting and advancing ethics activities by assisting Member States and other interested parties to identify experts, establish ethics committees, construct informed policies in the area of ethics, and design ethics teaching curricula. The observatory consists of the following databases: Who’s Who in Ethics, Ethics Institutions, Ethics Teaching Programmes, and Ethics Related Legislation and Guidelines. Available in UNESCO’s six official languages of Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
