Disabilities and ICT. The European Parliament ignores the proposals of Luca Coscioni Association

On September, 24 the European Parliament in its plenary session in Brussels rejected definitively all the amendments that the Luca Coscioni Association had suggested in order to improve the access to telecommunications regarding people with disabilities. None of our proposals has been accepted, after two years of work around the international meeting in Milan –

Luca Coscioni Association chosen to study the effects of religious fundamentalism

Luca Coscioni Association will be granted 3.000 USD by the Canadian AWID – Association for Women’s Rights in Development http://www.awid.org to develop a case study proposal on effects of religious fundamentalism in Italy. Our case study proposal was chosen as one of only ten others out of 180. As part of this selection we have

Declaration of Helsinki – Proposal of Amendments by Luca Coscioni Association and the World Congress

Last February 2008 the Luca Coscioni Association proposed to amend the Declaration of Helsinki in the framework of the DoH Review Consultation launched by the World Medical Association http://www.wma.net . The amendments we proposed also in our role of operational secretariat of the World Congress for freedom of scientific research were rejected with no further