STANDING COMMITTEE ON ETHICS ESTABLISHED BY BOARD

UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM Standing Committee on Nutrition

Recognizing that: • The global burden of maternal and child undernutrition remains unconscionably large, and is the single greatest constraint facing global development efforts. • A renewed and strengthened evidence base exists for a set of essential nutrition interventions that if effectively targeted to mothers and children from conception to two years of age, could prevent at least a quarter...

Committee on Publication Ethics 1997-2000.

Publication Ethics: A Case Series with Recommendations According to Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Ethical misconduct is not a new issue in the history of science and literature. However, ethical misconducts in science have grown considerably in the modern era which is due to emphasis on the scientific proliferation in research institutes and gauging scientists according to their publications. In the current case series, several misconducts occurring over the previous years in Mashhad Univer...

National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee

Ethics-committee authorization in Germany.

On 9 August 1994 the German legislature revised the German Drug Law (AMG). Included in the revision is a passage requiring, for the first time, that the sponsors and investigators of clinical studies involving human subjects first obtain the approval of an ethics committee before carrying out such studies. According to the legislation, which takes effect on 17 August 1995, approval is to come f...