by Alexis DUPORT | 8 Jan, 2018 | Gènéthique informs you
In the Laval region of Quebec, 77% of doctors who received a medically assisted dying request, “invoked conscientious objection”. Surveys “carried out during assisted dying debates” showed that, although the doctors interviewed were not...
by Alexis DUPORT | 18 Dec, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muiznieks, is publishing a report denouncing the “imminent threats to health and the sexual and reproductive rights of women”. Gènéthique takes stock of the situation with Grégor Puppinck[1],...
by Alexis DUPORT | 17 Nov, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
While the members of the UNO Committee on Human Rights seek at interpreting the article 6 of the Covenant on Civil Rights relative to the right to life, Claire de La Hougue, Doctor in Law and Expert for Gènéthique denounces the incoherence of a dramatic position....
by Alexis DUPORT | 17 Nov, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
The UN Committee on Human Rights seeks to impose the legalisation of abortion and euthanasia to all countries. At the UN, the Committee on Human Rights is currently rethinking the definition given to the “right to life” in international law, mentioned in the...
by Alexis DUPORT | 17 Nov, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
Late October, the Council of Europe’s Committee on Bioethics (DH-Bio) organised two days of conferences for the 20 years of the Oviedo Convention in Strasbourg. The Committee saw this as the opportunity to “question the relevance of the principles made sacred” via...
by Alexis DUPORT | 6 Nov, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
In a General Comment originated from the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) concerning the principles of equality and non-discrimination, the UNO committee in charge of disabilities declared: “States parties should address stigmatization...