INTERNATIONAL
 

World Health Organisation: Ethics and Health
http://www.who.int/ethics/en/

World Medical Association: Ethics Unit
http://www.wma.net/e/ethicsunit/

Council for International Organisations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS)
http://www.cioms.ch/

European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE)
http://europa.eu.int/comm/european_group_ethics/index_en.htm

The Human Genome Organisation (HUGO): Ethics Committee
http://www.hugo-international.org/committee_ethics.htm

The International Association of Bioethics
http://bioethics-international.org/iab-2.0/index.php?show=index

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO): Bioethics
http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1372&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
 

NATIONAL ETHICS BODIES
 

Australia
The Australian Health Ethics Committee
http://www.health.gov.au/nhmrc/

Canada
National Council on Ethics in Human Research
http://www.ncehr-cnerh.org/

Denmark
Danish Council of Ethics
http://www.etiskraad.dk/sw293.asp

France
Comité Consultatif National d'Ethique (CCNE)
http://www.ccne-ethique.fr/english/start.htm

Germany
Der Nationale Ethikrat
http://www.ethikrat.org/_english

Ireland
Irish Council for Bioethics
http://www.bioethics.ie/

Italy
National Bioethics Committee
http://www.palazzochigi.it/bioetica/eng/index.html

New Zealand
Toi te Taiao: the Bioethics Council
http://www.bioethics.org.nz/

Sweden
Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics
http://www.smer.gov.se/

The US
The President's Council of Bioethics
http://bioethics.gov/

Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP)
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/

The UK
Human Genetics Commission (HGC)
http://www.hgc.gov.uk/

The Nuffield Council of Bioethics
http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/home/
 
BIOETHICS RESOURCES
 

German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences (DRZE)
Germany’s central resource centre for both national and international information on the ethical, legal, social and scientific issues in life sciences.
http://www.drze.de/

Department of Energy (DOE) ELSI Home Page
The official US Department of Energy website covers a most prominent project ever accomplished in biomedical science – the Human Genome Project. Learn about the social, ethical and legal issues surrounding the project.
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/elsi.shtml

The Hastings Center
The Hasting's Center is an independent body examining the role of ethics in the biomedical sciences. The research programs section outlines the center's focus on four areas - medicine and biomedical research, health policy and health care systems, values and biotechnology, and humans and nature.
http://www.thehastingscenter.org/

The American Journal of Bioethics Online
Produced by the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics and The MIT Press and has a wealth of news, journals, articles and links, as well as features on cloning. Additionally, the website allows you to subscribe to a mailing list that keeps you posted on the latest bioethics happenings.
http://www.bioethics.net/

The Kennedy Institute of Ethics
The Bioethics Library on the website contains links to online databases, such as BIOETHICSLINE, as well as to other bioethics resources on the internet. This centre is the largest university based group of faculty members in the world devoted to research and teaching in biomedical ethics and other areas of applied ethics.
http://www.georgetown.edu/research/kie/

National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature
The website provides a specialised collection of books, journals, newspaper articles, legal materials, regulations, codes, and other relevant documents concerned with issues in biomedical and professional ethics.
http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/

US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bioethics Resources on the Web
Site with well organised links, leading you to journals, bioethical organisations, articles pertaining to research ethics, genetics and medicine and health care, as well as US Federal databases and documents.
http://www.nih.gov/sigs/bioethics/

HumGen
An international database on the ethical, legal and social issues of human genetics.
http://www.humgen.umontreal.ca/en/