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6 June 2015

Human Rights Court Allows Ending Treatment of Comatose Man
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22 May 2015

Chilean Girl Who Wished for Euthanasia Passes Away
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16 May 2015

Dutch Court Clears Man Who Helped His 99-Year-Old Mother Die
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30 April 2015

For first time in Israel, court permits euthanasia for terminal patient
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9 March 2015

1000s of Scots Lodge Opposition to Assisted Suicide
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9 March 2015

Colombia May Finally Legalize Euthanasia
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22 January 2015

Belgian rapist Van Den Bleeken refused ‘right to die’
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30 May 2014

In 2013, five patients per day ended their lives with the help of assisted suicide in Belgium
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22 March 2014

Tasmania’s euthanasia bill fails narrowly

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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Human Rights Court Allows Ending Treatment of Comatose Man

Chilean Girl Who Wished for Euthanasia Passes Away

Dutch Court Clears Man Who Helped His 99-Year-Old Mother Die

For first time in Israel, court permits euthanasia for terminal patient

1000s of Scots Lodge Opposition to Assisted Suicide

Colombia May Finally Legalize Euthanasia

Belgian rapist Van Den Bleeken refused ‘right to die’

In 2013, five patients per day ended their lives with the help of assisted suicide in Belgium

Tasmania’s euthanasia bill fails narrowly

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