From the body to the body politic the World Congress for freedom of scientific research is a permanent forum of activities to promote freedom of research and treatment worldwide
Bernard Siegel
Executive Director and founder, Genetics Policy Institute (GPI)
08-04-2011
Echoes in Europe of Sherley v. Sebelius: The Meaning of "Human Embryo"

Three weeks ago, on March 10, the Advocate General of the European Union’s Court of Justice, issued a non-binding preliminary opinion “in complete independence” on the question of the meaning of the term “human embryo” in the 1998 European Commission directive on the patentability of biotechnology inventions.

patents
Prof. Pierre Mallia
MD MPhil MA PhD MRCP FRCGP Family Medicine and Patients' Rights Coordinator, Bioethics Research Programme University of Malta
06-04-2011
On embryo's patentability and freedom of research

Briefly, I would say that Science is not the enemy; science would not be science if it does not fulfil the human quest of discovery, wherever it may lead. The true enemy is human dialogue on the one hand and abuse of science on the other. Human dialogue is often found solely under the disguise of confrontation and argumentation without any effort to empty oneself of one's prejudices to truly understand the other. This holds usually for both sides of the argument.

patents
Debra JH Mathews
PhD, MA, Assistant Director for Science Programs, BERMAN INSTITUTE OF BIOETHICS, Johns Hopkins University
24-03-2011
The Hinxton Group issues statement on data/materials sharing and IPR

The Hinxton Group http://www.hinxtongroup.org/ recently released its third set of recommendations titled: "Statement on Policies and Practices Governing Data and Materials Sharing and Intellectual Property in Stem Cell Science". Tension is increasing between fairly new and pervasive policies and practices governing data and materials sharing and intellectual property in science, and norms of openness and free exchange.

patents
Endre Spaller
Member of the Hungarian Parliament
22-02-2011
Answer to open letter of the Luca Coscioni Association

Dear Colleagues,
If we ask someone what comes into mind about Hungary, the answer is mostly two things. The first is Puskás, the legendary Hungarian football player of the Real Madrid. We do not want to include his success into the new Constitution, not like the other thing that always comes into mind about Hungary: the revolution of 1956. Even though the new Hungarian democracy derives its roots from the heroism of the revolution of 1956, the present Hungarian Constitution does not mention this outstanding historical moment.

Hungary
Stefania Kapronczay
Head of the Patients' Rights Program at HCLU – Hungarian Civil Liberties Union
22-02-2011
HCLU on Hungarian Constitution

Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) is a human rights watch-dog NGO established in 1994. The HCLU received an invitation to take part in the work of the ad-hoc Parliamentarian Committee on Constitution Drafting. HCLU declined the invitation. The reasons why HCLU made this decision reflects our opinion on the draft of the new Constitution.

Hungary
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