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,

You can download a printable copy or view the newsletter at this link. The newsletter will be sent to a broad selection of University Professors, researchers, patients and advocates worldwide. As of the next issue, we would be pleased to publish any contribution of yours concerning science, related policies as well as comments on any

The current phase of global economic crisis should be taken as an opportunity for stimulating a cultural debate, at level of international intellectual élites, about the educational factors or variables that have been demonstrated to improve human individual and social capacities to ponder and decide wisely when confronted with challenges that can be addressed with

We are glad to disseminate the launch of Women on Waves’ initiative since it is very much in line with our aim of creating an international civil society rescue. In Italy Luca Coscioni Association goes on struggling so that pharmaceutical abortion is introduced and normally supplied by the Italian National Health System, like in the

Last May 26 Luca Coscioni Association submitted on due time its own comments on NIH Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research in the framework of the open consultation launched by National Institutes of Health for the purpose of reviewing, collating or analyzing the comments in developing final guidelines. We considered appropriate to send our comments

Marco Cappato took part in the last ESTOOLS Public Scientific Symposium on “Stem Cell Science, Ethics & Communications�? held in Rome last May 27. Marco Cappato was asked to make a commentary and take-home messages of the SESSION 5: Science, law and ethics. On that occasion he launched a transnational campaign for the next European

CHEN – Patient Fertility Association, Israel, a partner of the World Congress, is now on You Tube

Convened by Associazione Luca Coscioni. Subscribe now the THE FINAL DECLARATION. The second World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research was held at the European Parliament in Brussels from the 5th to the 7th March 2009. Among the speakers there were Kary Mullis, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1993; Martin L. Perl, Nobel Prize in Physics