World Congress for freedom of scientific research

Marco Cappato

Secretary General of Luca Coscioni Association

Marco Perduca

Senator of the Italian Parliament

Sergio Rovasio

Secretary General of Certi Diritti

24-01-2011

Nonviolent Radical Party says no to Italian model in Hungary

To the Members of the Hungarian Parliament
Dear Colleagues,
We are informed that according to a document published by your Ad hoc Parliamentary Constitution Drafting Committee, Hungary’s drafted Constitution should include the protection of life understood as starting from the conception. Moreover the proposal provides special protection to the institution of marriage, understood as the union between one man and one woman.
We as Luca Coscioni Association and Nonviolent Radical Party, in the framework of our “World Congress for freedom of scientific research”, have been alerted by some women’s and LGBT’s associations complaining that the draft constitution, if approved in its present version, might restrict citizens’ equality and damage women’s right to health, namely through legal restrictions in access to abortion.

Hungary

Carmen Sorrentino

Coordinator of the World Congress

18-01-2011

An Italian Experience of Resisting Religious Fundamentalisms

The anthology Feminists on the Frontline: Case Studies of Resisting and Challenging Fundamentalisms has been published by AWID - Association for Women's Rights Development

The anthology includes the case study Associazione Luca Coscioni and the World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research: An Italian Experience of Resisting Religious Fundamentalisms by Carmen Sorrentino.

Religious Fundamentalisms

Francesco Sani

Member of Luca Coscioni Association

20-12-2010

Assisted Suicide: British developments

On the first day of December, facing several empty rows in the Scottish Parliament, Margo Macdonald, the staunch independent MSP from the Lothians, stood up and defended her bill before the House: the televised debate was, as many of her Holyrood colleagues acknowledged, a welcome return, since the topic had lain dormant from the 2005 “Dying with Dignity” consultation paper by the Liberal Democrat Jeremy Purvis.

end of life

Interview with Elena Cattaneo

14-12-2010

Science and politics.

An interview with Elena Cattaneo, Director of the Centre for Stem Cell Research at the University of Milano, Italy
Published online 3 December 2010
EMBO reports advance online publication 3 December 2010; doi:10.1038/embor.2010.194
Elena Cattaneo is Director of the Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Pharmacology of Neurodegenerative Diseases in the Department of Pharmacological Sciences at the University of Milano, Italy. She is also the co-founder and first appointed Director of UniStem, the Centre for Stem Cell Research, hosted by the same institution. The main research themes of her lab are neural stem cells and the molecular patho-physiology of Huntington disease.

freedom of research

Elena Cattaneo

Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Gilberto Corbellini

Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy

10-12-2010

Science under politics. An Italian nightmare

The second half of the twentieth century has seen the relationship between society, politics and science become increasingly complex and controversial. Particularly in democratic countries—where the application of scientific research and the diffusion of knowledge have contributed to a significant increase in the well-being of citizens—scientists have had to face interference from political, religious and ideological interest groups. Even the seemingly powerful scientific community in the USA was affected by an ‘epidemic of politics’ under the administration of President George W. Bush.

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