Sentences with phrase «ethics council began»

In response, the fund's ethics council began an ongoing assessment of whether any of the companies in the fund might be involved in human rights violations (forced labour particularly) in Eritrea.

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The meeting began on a Wednesday night at the bucolic campus of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Illinois, and the frank discussion quickly moved into a variety of topics including several difficult ones such as the Council of Trent, which is particularly anti-Protestant but still binding for Catholics, and the Catholic doctrine of the church as the prolongation of the incarnation of Christ (presented by Father Thomas A. Baima, the Catholic co-chair of the event), as well as social issues ranging from care for the poor, abortion, and the recent developments in gender and sexual ethics in the West.

Safety, security, and ethics in the biological realm are a multi-disciplinary challenge that begins and ends with the individual Presenter: Terence Taylor, International Council for the Life Sciences, USA Co-authors: Abid Azhar, University of Karachi, Pakistan; M. Ajmal Khan, Qatar University, Qatar; Kauser Malik, Foman Christian College University, Pakistan; Anwar Nasim, Pakistan Academy of Sciences, Pakistan

According to the report, if companies begin to develop autonomous weapons, the ethics council would «consider dealing with individual cases under the conduct - based criteria.»

In March, the ethics council of the $ 830 billion Norwegian Government Pension Fund announced its intent to begin monitoring companies investing in the potential development of fully autonomous weapons systems.