Monthly Archives: April 2014

Securing a Better Future For Mothers in the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Evaluating the ICPD Operational Review

By Stefano Gennarini, J.D. and Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. Preparations for the post-2015 development agenda have led to several inputs from governments, international institutions, civil society and the private sector. This paper evaluates certain aspects of the UNFPA’s operational review of the Programme of Action of the 1994 International Conference on Populations and Development held at Cairo, following General…

Citizens' Initiative "One of Us" for the respect of human life. Next Step: European Commission decision.

The European Commission (EU) must decide before May 28 on how it intends to take action concerning the request of the European Citizens’ Initiative “One of Us” to introduce into the European regulatory an ethics clause explicitly excluding European Union funding any activity that destroys or involves the destruction of human life at the embryonic…

One of Us Public Hearing in the European Parliament

The public hearing in the European Parliament on the citizen’s initiative “One of Us” was a great success, with more than five hundred participants actively discussing about the dignity of the human embryo and the protection that he deserves on our societies.