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News Author: Lynne Rippenaar-Moses Published: 19/05/2021 ​​The Inge Lotz Foundation, which was established by her father Prof Jan Lotz after the 22-year old Stellenbosch University (SU) student was tragically murdered in her Welgevonden flat in Stellenbosch, has donated R1 million to the Unit for Bioethics at SU.  The Unit is situated in the Centre for Applied Ethics in the Philosophy Department of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and is headed up by Prof Anton van Niekerk, who spec...

  WINNIPEG -- Doctors in Manitoba say each family will make their own decision on whether their children will receive a vaccine for COVID-19 when it becomes available. However, there is an exception, called the mature minor doctrine, that would allow people under 18 to get a vaccine on their own, without the consent of a parent or a guardian. On Wednesday, Canada was the first country to give Pfizer its approval to use its vaccine for the 12 to 15-year-old age group. Manitoba was quick to...

​"This pioneering collection invites us to reflect on ethical issues at the foundations of African society, the human condition, nature, and the synergies between the three. As the 4IR gains momentum, this book challenges us to consider technology’s hard and soft impacts. It brilliantly captures the capacity for Africa to harness intrinsic moral virtues such as Ubuntu to address the impact of technology on its populations."  (Arthur Gwagwa, AI expert, UN Global Pulse, UK) "The essential v...

The bar for declaring a COVID-19 outbreak in a Manitoba school allows for the possibility of transmi...

Leading B-school XLRI underwent a change of guard on Tuesday with Father P. Christie handing over charge to Father Paul Fernandes, who will be the new director.  An alumnus of XLRI-Jamshedpur Fr. Paul. Fernandes (Business Management, 86 batch) had worked at XLRI for many years in various capacities. Besides being a faculty member, he was also a financial controller. He was also the founder chairperson of Father Arrupe Centre for Excellence (FACE).  Fr. Paul earned his Ph.D. in Economic...

Share Jamshedpur:  Xavier School of Management, one of India’s premier B-Schools, announced a leadership change. After completing his term, Fr. P. Christie, S.J. handed over the reins to Fr. Paul. Fernandes, S.J., as the new Director of the country’s leading management institute. Fr. Paul. Fernandes, S.J. has taken over the responsibilities as the new Director of XLRI with immediate effect. An alumnus of XLRI Jamshedpur Fr. Paul. Fernandes (BM ’86 Batch) had worked at XLRI for many years...

Under Pressure: Study of Indiana Workplaces Shows Ethical Compromises, Retaliation STATE WIDE–Are you privy to some low-down goings on where you work? Maybe someone got a promotion for the wrong reasons. Maybe somebody bribed the boss. People in Indiana are reporting a higher number of these kinds of incidents than the national average, and Marian University’s Walker Center for Applied Ethics dug deep to find out why. “Types of misconduct that people report might be preferential treatment...

Print When the U.S. attorney’s corruption case targeting Los Angeles City Hall first broke into view, much of the public’s attention focused on vivid descriptions of cash bribes, escort services and lavish trips to Las Vegas. But as the investigation has unspooled over the past year, federal prosecutors have laid out another, less sensational set of allegations: that a deputy mayor-turned-real estate consultant worked to arrange “indirect bribes” for city officials by routing the money ...

Achieving full-cycle anonymity for whistleblowers by paying the reward in crypto Newsroom 23/04/2021 | 16:38 Romania leads most European Union (EU) nations in the adoption of the EU Whistleblower Directive with strong support of Minister of Justice, Stelian Ion, and Member of Parliament, Sebastian Burduja, who attracted the assistance of numerous whistleblower experts from both the United States and Europe. This week, they continued to demonstrate their undeterred intere...

With the Manitoba government poised to expand COVID-19 vaccination criteria to include people living or working in communities hit hardest by the disease, the province is relying on residents to be honest about their eligibility. On Tuesday, a government spokesman confirmed Manitoba does not track how many people who booked a shot at mass vaccination or pop-up clinics were turned away because they were deemed ineligible for immunization. Once at the immunization centre, staff only ask for...