2011 - World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research

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2 November 2011

The Bulletin no. 29, October 2011 “European court bans patents based on embryonic stem cells”
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27 September 2011

The Bulletin no. 28, September 2011 “Reproductive Rights are Human Rights”
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15 September 2011

Eight National Congress of Luca Coscioni Association, operational secretariat of the World Congress (Rome, October 1-2, 2011)
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15 September 2011

Dignidad del riesgo, el usuario como sujeto social
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29 August 2011

Are gene patents eligible? A comment.
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24 August 2011

The Bulletin no. 27 August 2011 “Are gene patents eligible?”
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27 July 2011

Issue no. 26 July 2011 “Abortion and patient protection”
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25 July 2011

A veiled ban on abortion in Russia
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21 July 2011

A closer look at stem cell frauds is needed

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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The Bulletin no. 29, October 2011 “European court bans patents based on embryonic stem cells”

The Bulletin no. 28, September 2011 “Reproductive Rights are Human Rights”

Eight National Congress of Luca Coscioni Association, operational secretariat of the World Congress (Rome, October 1-2, 2011)

Dignidad del riesgo, el usuario como sujeto social

Are gene patents eligible? A comment.

The Bulletin no. 27 August 2011 “Are gene patents eligible?”

Issue no. 26 July 2011 “Abortion and patient protection”

A veiled ban on abortion in Russia

A closer look at stem cell frauds is needed

Contacts

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