“Belgium is the first country in the world not to look away”

“Belgium is the first country in the world not to look away from the unbearable suffering conditions that can affect young people as well. Belgian rules provide sufficient safeguards to prevent the abuses and the oppression, that occur in the clandestineness, to which we are condemned by such laws like the Italian ones,”, Mina Welby

(draft) Concept note: “The implementation of the right to enjoy scientific progress and the freedom indispensable for scientific research”

Tuesday 20 September 2016, h. 13.00 – 15.00 Room, XXVII, Palais des Nations, Geneva  

Programme of the Side-Event: “The implementation of the right to enjoy scientific progress and the freedom indispensable for scientific research”

Organized by the World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research and the “Associazione Luca Coscioni” in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations and International Organizations in Geneva and with the International Institute for the Human right to science Tuesday 20 September 2016, h. 13.00 – 15.00 Room, XXVII, Palais des

Press release: “Science and human rights”

On the 20th of September 2016, h. 13-15, Room XXVII at the Palais des Nations in Geneva (Switzerland), the Associazione Luca Coscioni and the World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research, in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of Italy to the UN, organize a panel discussion on Science and Human Rights about: “The implementation of

Side-Event on “The implementation of the right to enjoy scientific progress and the freedom indispensable for scientific research” (Geneva, Sept. 20, 2016)

Palais des Nations, Room XXVII (Geneva, Switzerland) from 13.00 to 15.00 – Organized by the World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research and the “Associazione Luca Coscioni” in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations and International Organizations in Geneva and with the International Institute for the Human right to science

Stem Cell Therapies Are Still Mostly Theory, Yet Clinics Are Flourishing.

Health regulators in the United States are talked about as the best in the world, but a new study on the spread of stem cell clinics shows what can happen when regulations fall behind. Out of nowhere, over the past two to three years, the clinics have sprung up — 570 in the United States,

Irish Woman Live-Tweets Trip to Get Abortion in England

Two Irish women who live-tweeted a trip to England so that one of them could get an abortion set off a debate over the weekend, highlighting the restrictions placed on the procedure in their home country and renewing pressure on the government to respond to calls for change. Abortion is banned in Ireland unless a

The Day Peruvian Women Rebelled

As in other days, the day I rebelled I was walking home from school by myself. I was 13, and I liked to wear the skirt of that godawful Peruvian school uniform above my knees. I loved my legs, and I had recently waxed them for the first time. It was Lima in the 1990s,

N.I.H. May Fund Human-Animal Stem Cell Research

The National Institutes of Health announced on Thursday that it was planning to lift its ban on funding some research that injects human stem cells into animal embryos. The N.I.H. announced its proposal in a blog post by Carrie Wolinetz, the associate director for science policy, and in the Federal Register. The purpose is to

Advocate: 13-Year-Old in Mexico Denied Abortion in Rape

Officials in northern Mexico have denied an abortion to a 13-year-old girl who was raped by a family acquaintance, an advocacy group said Monday. Abortion is legal in Mexico in cases of rape. But Regina Tames, director of the Group for Information on Reproductive Choice, said officials in Sonora state are relying on a judge’s

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