We hereby copy a two-part article by Barbara Forrest, Department of HiNews & Political Science, Southeastern Louisiana University, USA. Prof. Forrest took part in the second meeting of the World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research. In this article she shares her personal experience of that event and people she met in Brussels, mainly Prof.

Our friend AWID – Association for Women’s Rights in Development http://www.awid.org which awarded 3.000 USD to us to develop a case study proposal on effects of religious fundamentalism in Italy, urges to spread the following Statement on the Arbitrary Detention of Women’s Human Rights Defender Shadi Sadr by Iranian Authorities The Association for Women’s Rights

July 2008: the Ministry of Health nominated a committee of experts to define the issues on stem cell research to be included in its 2008 funding application criteria. 26th February 2009: the Italian Conferenza Stato Regioni [= Assembly for regional affairs] signed the document for the Ministry of Health’s upcoming stem cell research funding. Approved

Luca Coscioni Association endorses the following petition by Blogstoria. To sign it please reply to info@freedomofresearch.org “Last May 15, a decree issued by the President of the Russian Federation set up a “Commission for contrasting the attempts of hiNews forgery against Russian interests�?. Last June 23, V. A. Tiškov, “Vice Secretary Academician, Section of Historical

On our request the Library of the European Parliament – DG Presidency kindly conducted a review of the regulatory environment in which researchers and health care professionals operate. This review is a first step towards the full implementation of the Final Declaration, namely “monitoring the state of freedom of research and care in the world,