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HUMAN RIGHTS
“That’s his specialty, he’s the uterus collector,” said one woman.
Canada has passed a new law that prevents corporations from demanding genetic information from potential employees or customers.
A new American documentary claims to provide damning evidence of China's force harvesting of organs.
a young Cambridge PhD candidate has reiterated his challenge the British medical establishment.
In spite of promises for reform, the Chinese government is still using the organs of harvested prisoners.
Human rights groups have expressed grave concern about the employment of young children on tobacco farms around the US.
Two psychologists contracted by the CIA to create enhanced interrogation techniques for al-Qaeda detainees have come under fire for violating human rights and medical ethics.
Bioethics writer Virginia Hughes explores the complexities of trying to define personhood.
At least one disability-care facility in Greece has been keeping its residents in cages.
Britain’s Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by campaigners to have assisted suicide pronounced a human right. The appeal was made by the family of Tony Nicklinson, an assisted suicide advocate who died in 2013.
The ethics of using killer robots is adding a new subspeciality to bioethics.
A recent study published by the Centre for Social Research in India claims that women’s rights in India’s surrogacy capital, Anand in Gujarat are being violated.
Chemical castration will be mandatory in Moldova for those convicted of violently abusing children under 15.
Tens of millions of people worldwide are denied access to inexpensive medications for severe pain, Human Rights Watch said in a report released earlier this month. The 128-page report, "Global State of Pain Treatment: Access to Palliative Care as a Human Right," details the failure of many governments to take even basic steps to ensure that people with severe pain due to cancer, HIV, and other serious illnesses have access to palliative care. As a result, millions of patients live and die in gre
Government is resisting
Pressuring governments to provide pain relief for all
An interview with the author of The Professional Guinea Pig
Situation gets worse with financial pressures on hospitals
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