“With reference to Luca Coscioni Association’s suggestion to address some of ‘116’ numbers to provide information and assistance to disabled people – namely by reserving several of the 200 numbers range to address people with different disabilities in particular: 1) relay services for text telephony; 2) relay services for video telephony – and your following

In 2002, an act regulating the ending of life by a physician at the request of a patient with unbearable suffering came into effect in the Netherlands. In 2005, a follow-up study of euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide and other end-of-life practices was performed. In 2005, of all deaths in the Netherlands, 1.7% were the result of

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Last October 2-3 the Luca Coscioni Association and the World Congress for freedom of scientific research took part in the StemCellSummit to be held at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA, USA. The summit was organized among others by the Genetics Policy Institute whose founder and Executive Director Bernard Siegel is an active partner

Last August 15 the LUCA COSCIONI ASSOCIATION submitted a Position Paper with reference to the Public Consultation on the European e-Inclusion Strategy aimed at gathering opinions from the wider public on e-Inclusion (digital inclusion) on the main areas of interest listed below: – e-Accessibility – Inclusive e-Government – Information & communication technologies for active ageing

Last July 11, the Commission services together with the Communications Committee, which is an advisory committee of Member States set up to assist the Commission in electronic communications matters, communicated that by October 15 they would like to receive more detailed info on the services Luca Coscioni Association had suggested to adopt. Indeed for a

A Symposium on the first meeting of the World Congress has been published by the Journal of Medical Ethics (June 1, 2007, Volume 33, Issue 6), a leading international journal, which reflects the field of medical ethics. The symposium has been co-edited by Dr. Simona Giordano, Lecturer in Bioethics at the University of Manchester and

Following to the international congress “Technologies and reforms against disabilities” held in Milan last January, Hon. Marco Cappato, member of the European Parliament and Executive Director of the Luca Coscioni Association, submitted last April 10 an oral question to the European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, Mrs. Viviane Reding. She answered last May 22

Last January 26-27, 2007 the first meeting of the International Congress “TECHNOLOGIES AND REFORMS AGAINST DISABILITIES -Digital and political revolution for “freedom of speech�? and independent living” was held in Milan. Please find copied below and attached the objectives and the programme of the event, along with the final document issued by the congress. Any

Piergiorgio Welby, co-President of the Luca Coscioni’s association, has realised his final will: on the 20th of December 2006 doctor Mario Riccio has ended the sanitarian treatment which kept him artificially alive. The public debate started in September, when Welby sent a video-message to the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, calling for his right-to-die. Suffering from