May 2010 - World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research

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26 May 2010

REVIEWED! Freedom of research and cure in NEW ZEALAND – Country report and synoptic table
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26 May 2010

Freedom of research and cure in PANAMA – Country report and synoptic table
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21 May 2010

“Bear bile: Bad for bears, bad for humans” by Angela Leary
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18 May 2010

The High Committee of Religious Affairs sets out conditions to artificial reproduction in Turkey
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11 May 2010

Assisted reproduction in Europe – The maps on the legal situation and a sentence by the Strasbourg Court
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10 May 2010

“Fertility and Sterility – IFFS Surveillance 2007” – Towards monitoring freedom of research in the world
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5 May 2010

“Abortion Worldwide: A Decade of Uneven Progress” by the Guttmacher Institute. Towards monitoring freedom of research and cure
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4 May 2010

Freedom of research in SOUTH AFRICA – Country report and synoptic table

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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REVIEWED! Freedom of research and cure in NEW ZEALAND – Country report and synoptic table

Freedom of research and cure in PANAMA – Country report and synoptic table

“Bear bile: Bad for bears, bad for humans” by Angela Leary

The High Committee of Religious Affairs sets out conditions to artificial reproduction in Turkey

Assisted reproduction in Europe – The maps on the legal situation and a sentence by the Strasbourg Court

“Fertility and Sterility – IFFS Surveillance 2007” – Towards monitoring freedom of research in the world

“Abortion Worldwide: A Decade of Uneven Progress” by the Guttmacher Institute. Towards monitoring freedom of research and cure

Freedom of research in SOUTH AFRICA – Country report and synoptic table

Contacts

FROM THE BODY TO THE BODY POLITIC