HUMAN RIGHTS

UN experts alarmed at growing trend for ‘right to die’

Michael Cook | 31 January 2021 | Comments

tags: disability, end of life issues, human rights

'Disability should never be a ground or justification to end someone’s life directly or indirectly.'

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Whistle-blower claims that detainees in US facility were sterilised without consent

Michael Cook | 19 September 2020 | Comments

tags: human rights

“That’s his specialty, he’s the uterus collector,” said one woman.

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Canada passes genetic ‘anti-discrimination’ law

Xavier Symons | 10 March 2017 | Comments

tags: canada, discrimination, genetic testing, human rights, privacy

Canada has passed a new law that prevents corporations from demanding genetic information from potential employees or customers.

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New documentary on organ harvesting

Xavier Symons | 06 August 2016 | Comments

tags: china, documentary, human rights, organ harvesting

A new American documentary claims to provide damning evidence of China's force harvesting of organs.

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Nurses have a human right to be good Catholics

Xavier Symons | 01 April 2016 | Comments

tags: Catholic bioethics, Catholic Church, conscientious objection, human rights, religious liberty

a young Cambridge PhD candidate has reiterated his challenge the British medical establishment.

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Some things never change

Xavier Symons | 21 November 2015 | Comments

tags: China, human rights, organ donation

In spite of promises for reform, the Chinese government is still using the organs of harvested prisoners.

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Political inaction as minors work tobacco farms

Xavier Symons | 14 February 2015 | Comments

tags: human rights, minors, tobacco

Human rights groups have expressed grave concern about the employment of young children on tobacco farms around the US.

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Psychologists criticised in CIA torture report

Michael Cook | 14 December 2014 | Comments

tags: 911, human rights, military ethics, torture

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.

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What does it mean to be a human person?

Xavier Symons | 29 November 2014 | Comments

tags: consciousness, human rights, personhood

Bioethics writer Virginia Hughes explores the complexities of trying to define personhood.

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Disabled children kept in cages in Greek childcare centre

Xavier Symons | 15 November 2014 | Comments

tags: disability, human rights

At least one disability-care facility in Greece has been keeping its residents in cages.

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Supreme Court withholds judgement on assisted suicide as human right

Xavier Symons | 27 June 2014 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, human rights, UK

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.

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UN debates use of killer robots

Michael Cook | 08 June 2013 | Comments

tags: human dignity, human rights, robot ethics

The ethics of using killer robots is adding a new subspeciality to bioethics.

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Screws turn on Costa Rica’s IVF ban

Michael Cook | 22 September 2012 | Comments

tags: Costa Rica, human rights, IVF

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Women’s rights violated in India’s surrogacy capital: study

Jared Yee | 10 March 2012 | Comments

tags: human rights, India, law, surrogacy

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.

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Moldova votes for chemical castration

Jared Yee | 10 March 2012 | Comments

tags: castration, human rights, law

Chemical castration will be mandatory in Moldova for those convicted of violently abusing children under 15.

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Millions lack access to palliative care, says Human Rights Watch

Michael Cook | 08 June 2011 | Comments

tags: human rights, palliative care

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

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International pressure to force Costa Rica to legalise IVF

Michael Cook | 18 December 2010 | Comments

tags: Costa Rica, human rights, IVF

Government is resisting

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Pain relief is fundamental human right, say experts

Michael Cook | 18 September 2010 | Comments

tags: human rights, pain, palliative care

Pressuring governments to provide pain relief for all

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Roberto Abadie: the world of the professional guinea pig

Roberto Abadie | 14 September 2010 | Comments

tags: clinical trials, human rights, interviews

An interview with the author of The Professional Guinea Pig

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Chinese psychiatric hospitals used to incarcerate political opponents

Michael Cook | 28 June 2010 | Comments

tags: China, human rights, psychiatry

Situation gets worse with financial pressures on hospitals