2006 - World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research

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26 October 2006

Libya. Luca Coscioni Association’s partners launch an appeal for the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor emprisoned
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10 August 2006

STEM CELLS/GERMAN LIBERAL PARTY ENFORCES RADICALS’ PETITION ON EU FUNDS FOR RESEARCH
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30 May 2006

International Advocacy Award: Luca Coscioni Association being recognized by the Genetics Policy Institute
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4 May 2006

EU Commission Supports Freedom of Science and Innovation
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3 April 2006

Former EU Commissioner Philippe Busquin Endorses Petition for EU Funding of Embryonic Stem Cells Research
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31 March 2006

Petition Launched to Allocate EU Funds for Research on Embryonic Stem Cells
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30 March 2006

EU stem cell funding in jeopardy?
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15 March 2006

EDAB News about the World Congress
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3 March 2006

Universal Stem Cell Principles Proposed

Research and Self Determination Index

The Research and Self-Determination Index measures the degree of freedom to investigate human biology and to exercise self-determination with regard to our bodies.
Expanding medical knowledge through research, enhancing patients’ well-being through medical treatment, and securing the best available treatment are universal aspirations shared by researchers, health care professionals and patients around the globe.
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Abortion

Abortion and contraception allow women to express their freedom of reproduction by exercising their right of self-determination over their bodies.
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Assisted reproduction

Access to assisted reproduction concerns our ability to expand our freedom of reproduction by offering us the opportunity to have children notwithstanding infertility.
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End of Life

End of life decisions concern our ability to make choices concerning the end of our lives and take of the form of refusal of life sustaining treatment, being help in committing suicide, choosing euthanasia, and make choices that must be upheld even when the person becomes unconscious.
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GM Crops

GM crops have contributed significantly to modern agriculture. Plant breeding using genetic modification techniques has led to improving crops in more targeted ways than classical breeding techniques.
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Research with embryo

Research with embryos and pre-embryos as well as therapeutic cloning concerns scientists’ freedom to investigate human biology as well as patients’ freedom to access regenerative medicine treatments that may be developed as a result of research with human embryonic stem cells.
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Right to science

The human right to science is recognized in Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 15(b) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
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Libya. Luca Coscioni Association’s partners launch an appeal for the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor emprisoned

STEM CELLS/GERMAN LIBERAL PARTY ENFORCES RADICALS’ PETITION ON EU FUNDS FOR RESEARCH

International Advocacy Award: Luca Coscioni Association being recognized by the Genetics Policy Institute

EU Commission Supports Freedom of Science and Innovation

Former EU Commissioner Philippe Busquin Endorses Petition for EU Funding of Embryonic Stem Cells Research

Petition Launched to Allocate EU Funds for Research on Embryonic Stem Cells

EU stem cell funding in jeopardy?

EDAB News about the World Congress

Universal Stem Cell Principles Proposed

Contacts

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