The bulletin


World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research
the bulletin
  • Issue No. 29 - October 2011 "European court bans patents based on embryonic stem cells"
  • Issue No. 28 - September 2011 "Reproductive Rights are Human Rights"
  • Issue No. 27 - August 2011 "Are gene patents eligible?"
  • Issue No. 26 - July 2011 "Abortion and patient protection"
  • Issue No. 25 - June 2011 "Arab Spring and scientific revival"
  • Issue No. 24 - May 2011 "The Non-Epistemology of Intelligent Design"
  • Issue No. 23 - April 2011 "EU Clinical Trials Register goes live"
  • Issue No. 22 - March 2011 "Embyo's patentability and freedom of research"
  • Issue No. 21 - February 2011: follow-up to World Congress' initiative in Hungary, France to allow embryonic research under new law, Academy of science supports embryo genetic tests in Germany, single patent co-operation plan goes ahead in the EU and much more
  • Issue No. 20 - January 2011: Luca Coscioni Association and Radical Party says no to new Hungary's Constitution, reproducing Italian model as for protection of life and marriage; the anthology Feminists on the Frontline: Case Studies of Resisting and Challenging Fundamentalisms published by AWID, including a case study by Carmen Sorrentino concerning Luca Coscioni Association experience of challenging religious fundamentalisms; IVF program to be adopted in Romania; the proceedings of the Second Meeting of the World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research being sent to thousands of readers and much more
  • Issue No. 19 - December 2010: Science under politics and religion in Italy according to an article by Elena Cattaneo and Gilberto Corbellini; the televised debate on end-of-life decisions in Scotland raised by Hon. Margo Macdonald's bill; the new Hungarian ‘Christian’ constitution drafted to protect fetus from the conception and and to declare marriage just for men and women; the proceedings of the Second Meeting of the World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research being sent to thousands of readers and much more
  • Issue No. 18 - November 2010: UNESCO on human cloning, between concern and political hurdles; the proceedings of the Second Meeting of the World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research now available; the problematic situation of IVF regulation and a new government’s anti-drug bill in Poland; Rocco Berardo, Treasurer of Luca Coscioni Association, awarded LeaDer by ALDE Group in EP and much more
  • Issue No. 17 - October 2010: the UNESCO’s International Bioethics Committee to discuss a moratorium on reproductive cloning; a PACE resolution to regulate conscientious objection undercut by abortion opponents; the 2010 Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded to Robert Edwards, recognizing the importance of IVF method research, Filomena Gallo declares; Luca Gianaroli, ESHRE Chairman @ World Congress and much more
  • Issue No. 16 - September 2010: an interview with Margo MacDonald about her bill on euthanasia in Scotland; Richard A Jefferson interviewed on the biological open source; in vitro insemination to be reimbursed in Poland; freedom of research and cure in New South Wales (Australia); Lord Dick Taverne @ World Congress and much more
  • Issue No. 15 - August 2010: the Radicals participate in the Vienna declaration, requesting that Ban Ki Moon supports the decriminalization of narcotic drugs; Britain's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) faces the axe; freedom of research and cure in UK; Charles Sabine @ World Congress and much more 
  • Issue No. 14 - July 2010: the Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning denounces the interference of the Catholic Church on IVF legislation; closeness between stem cells generated through SCNT and bona fide embryonic stem cells; an international initiative to include maternal health at G8 summit; freedom of research and cure in Québec; prof. Eric Racine @ World Congress and much more
  • Issue No. 13 - June 2010: new site of information on stem cell treatments launched by ISSCR; new lines recently added to the Stem Cell Registry of NIH; use of prisoners of Guantanamo for research and testing; freedom of research and cure in New Zealand and Panama; Dr.Stephen Minger @ World Congress and much more
  • Issue No. 12 - May 2010: freedom of research and cure in South Africa, Animals Asia about the health risks of consuming bear bile as a cure-all in China and Vietnam, the conditions to artificial reproduction set out by the High Committee of Religious Affairs in Turkey, Marco Traub @ World Congress and much more
  • Issue No. 11 - April 2010 : in vitro fertilization restrictions in Turkey, campaign for freedom of research in Italy as example for Louisiana, bitter conflicts on IVF in Poland, freedom of research and cure in Spain, Spanish Minister Bernat Soria @ World Congress and much more
  • Issue No. 10 - March 2010 : the NIH's new definition of human embryonic stem cells explained by Boggio and Ballabeni; the Guardian on a condom machine for pupils in an Italian school, freedom of research and cure in Ireland; Dr. Audrey Simpson @ World Congress and much more
  • Issue No. 9 - February 2010 : another letter by the three Italian scientists Cattaneo, Cerbai and Garagna who sued for human embryonic stem cells; freedom of research and cure in Sweden; Prof. Kathinka Evers @ World Congress and much more
  • Issue No. 8 - January 2010 : New ISSCR's President on stem cell research and therapies; Nobel Laureate Ivar Giaever remembers Luca Coscioni; an exclusive interview with the Indian economist and physic, Dr. Vandana Shiva; freedom of research and cure in India; Prof. Miguel Kottow @ World Congress and much more
  • Issue No. 7 - December 2009 : Dr Andrea Boggio @ World Congress, freedom of research and cure in Brazil, freedom of scientific opinion about drugs in the UK, UNESCO and bioethics in Latin America, Nature on freedom of research in Italy and much more
  • Issue No. 6 - November 2009 : population growth and sustainability, freedom of research and cure in Poland, Prof. John Harris @ World Congress and much more
  • Issue No. 5 - October 2009: drug market, freedom of research in Italy, a message by the American Civil Liberties Union and much more
  • Issue No. 4 - September 2009 : digital freedom and democracy, the online congress of Luca Coscioni Association, the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO and much more
  • Issue No. 3 - August 2009 : restriction on assisted reproduction in Croatia, New York payment for eggs, research on freedom of research on human embryonic stem cells, RU486 in Italy and much more
  • Issue No. 2 - July 2009 : Russian manipulation oh historical research, NIH Guidelines on human embryonic stem cells, UNESCO on human cloning and much more
  • Issue No. 1 - June 2009 : a proposal for a UN conference on science freedom and education, prosecution of evolutionism in Turkey, Prof. Pervez Hoodbhoy @ World Congress and much more
 

 

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Andrea Boggio (Project Manager)
Mihai Romanciuc (Website Manager)
Filomena Gallo (Secretary of Luca Coscioni Association )
Marco Cappato (Treasurer of Luca Coscioni Association and Project Ideator)

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