Marco Cappato (MEP, Secretary-General of Luca Coscioni Association LCA) and Marco Perduca (Senator of the Italian Republic, Vice-president of Nonviolent Radical Party) asked to the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee to approve the technique of nuclear transfer – improperly called “therapeutic cloning�?- but above all to let the scientific research free to discover new treatments. The

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 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

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

The Luca Coscioni Association and the World Congress for freedom of scientific research will take active part in the World Stem Cell Summit 2008 to be held Sept. 22-23 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. The summit is organized among others by the Genetics Policy Institute whose founder and Executive Director Bernard Siegel is an active partner

A conference titled “Medically assisted dying and euthanasia: a matter of human rights” was held on the 5th of July 2007 at the European Parliament. The event was co-organised by the ELDR Group at the European Parliament and the Transnational Radical Party. The proceedings of the event are now available. More languages on request. Endorse

The Luca Coscioni Association sent to the EP and to the European Commission a position paper concerning the amendment of the so called “Telecoms package�?, in particular of the Universal Service Directive. The Luca Coscioni Association kindly requested to Hon. Alvaro Alexander (PE, ALDE) and to Mr. Paul Timmers (European Commission, Head of DG Unit

After the publication of the recent PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) inquiry, that illustrates that Italian students are situated at the 36th place for the knowledge of sciences, Luca Coscioni Association claims its own pioneering role to spread scientific education into Italian high schools. Such role has been realised by means of “Scolarmente�? project,

Last October 4, after a long political campaign of the Luca Coscioni Association, a formal resolution by the Italian Authority for the Guarantees in the Communications (AGCOM) provided that starting from the 1st of January 2008 the mobile phone operators grant 50 free SMS a day to deaf people, moreover the operators shall submit special

Last October 4, after a long political campaign of the Luca Coscioni Association, a formal resolution by the Italian Authority for the Guarantees in the Communications (AGCOM) provided that starting from the 1st of January 2008 the mobile phone operators grant 50 free SMS a day to deaf people, moreover the operators shall submit special