1. Official Announcement: Codes of Ethics Collection
Global Ethics Forum, 26 June 2015
Project Team:
Dr. Ignace Haaz, Pascale Chavaz, Delina Wejdeby

2. Aim of the Codes of Ethics Collection
The Codes of Ethics Collection aims to provide access to a large online collection of codes of ethics (professional, organisational, sectoral), as well as to the theoretical issues relating to the nature of codes of ethics.
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3. Main parts of the CoE Collection
About codes of ethics
Codes of ethics by sectors
Codes of ethics by professions
Codes of ethics by geography
Other voluntary ethical regulations
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4. Part 1. About CoEs - Meta-Ethical Level
Why are codes of ethics used?
What are codes of ethics?
How are they developed and used?
What limitations do they have?
Beyond codes of ethics – Values
Law vs. codes of ethics
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5. Part 2. Codes of ethics by sector
State
Private sector
Public services
Civil society
Multisectorial (coalitions, etc.)
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6. Part 3. Codes of ethics by professions
Health
Natural and applied sciences
Arts and culture
Religion
Finance and administration
Management
Governance
Multisectorial
Primary Industry
Manufacturing
Trades and transport
Sales and services
Protectives services
Education
Social sciences
Legal
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7. Key features of the Codes of Ethics Collection
English content represent about 60-65% of content
7 other languages well represented (e. g. 90 doc in French, Sp. 40, etc.)
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8. Search by keywords E. g. “Military”
Searching by keywords gives a first wide result, e. g. as “military” gives 64 results, protective services: 17, then military codes in particular are: Codes may have some aspect relevant for other categories e. g. civil servant.
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9. 121 codes of ethics in the Information Sciences, e. g
121 codes of ethics in the Information Sciences, e.g. codes for librarians 16 codes of Sovereign Wealth Funds
35 codes in the legal professional fields Health related professionals including medical doctors: 66 Strong regional involvement of African professional codes: 40
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10. شكراً جداً (Shokran Gidan). merci. thank you. धन्यवाद (Danyavad)
شكراً جداً (Shokran Gidan) merci thank you धन्यवाद (Danyavad) 謝謝 (xiexie) asante sana gracias Спасибо (spacibo) danke grazie adube oshe obrigado
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