The European Parliament has confirmed surrogate motherhood as a form of human trafficking On 22nd April 2024, the European Parliament by a strong majority, definitively adopted an evolution to the directive on human trafficking established in 2011: by 563 votes for, 7...
Is loneliness the ill of this hyperconnected era? This question is being asked by many observers and organisations such as the WHO (World Health Organisation). Our world has been described as a village since distances have shrunk thanks to high-speed travel and of...
On 29th October 2023, President Macron announced that a bill to register abortion in the French Constitution would be submitted to the cabinet during December. According to information in La Tribune, the text to appear under article 34 of the constitution would be as...
What exactly is the European project on the human brain ? The project on the human brain was launched in Europe at the end of 2013 for a period of 10 years. Its initial ambition was aimed at numerous research themes, at the point of convergence of several disciplines:...
On 7th November 2023, the European Parliamentary commission on legal affairs voted for a proposed rule initiated by the European Commission concerning the recognition of filiation certificates between European Union member states. The Commission, during its...
Santé Canada (Canada Health) has just released its 4th annual report on Medical Assistance In Dying (MAD). Covering euthanasia and assisted suicide, MAD represented 4.1% of deaths in 2022, which is a new record since its legalisation. The situation in Canada is...
Research into what could be termed “embryo models” manufactured artificially in laboratories has been conducted for several years by a few teams (United Kingdom, Israel, United States etc.). They have been the subject of recent scientific publications, with some...
The case of a young Belgian woman requesting euthanasia due to the failings in the social system acts as a wake-up call on the economic discrimination being suffered by patients. In her testimony relayed by SudInfo and delivered by the Nieuwsblad media, Shanna, at 38...
Since 14th December 1990, the 1st October has been dedicated by the United Nations General Assembly as the International Day for Older Persons. The theme for 2023 proposed by the UNO is: "Fulfilling the promises in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for the...
Several recent scientific studies have examined the risks to which women are exposed when taking hormonal contraceptives. Certain studies go deeper into subjects already known to the public and which have been the subject of publications and articles for many years...
Although the 2nd August 2021 bioethics law partly authorised access to their origins for children born by Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR) with a third-party donor, it is not until 2043 that children who so wish will systematically have access to the identity of...
The ECHR (European Court of Human Rights) has issued a judgement on the sensitive issue of post mortem assisted reproduction and the export of gametes or embryos. The facts Two recently widowed women, have lodged an appeal with the ECHR concerning the prohibition in...
