On April 10th the European Parliament will organize a public hearing for the ECI «One of Us». Organizers will present a legal proposition, which will hopefully become an European law.
The Commission has officially received the second successful European Citizens’ Initiative, with properly validated support from at least one million European citizens in at least seven Member States. Support for the One of Us ECI, whose organisers call on the EU to ‘establish a ban and end the financing of activities which presuppose the destruction…
ONE OF US is confirmed as the first European Citizens Initiative in number of statements of support collected from the European Citizens. The European Citizens Initiative (ECI) One of Us has finished the signatures collected verification and validation phase by the National Authorities of each Member State. Over 1,901,947 signatures collected 1,742,156 have been validated.…
The Public Hearing for ECI Right2Water – Europe’s first successful European Citizens’ Initiative – will take place Monday, 17 February from 15h00 to 18h30, in room JAN4Q2 in the European Parliament. It will be chaired by the Environment Committee and will also involve the Petitions Committee (PETI), the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO), and the Development Committee (DEVE).
I have been receiving media calls and emails about the wholly expected lawsuits by the Non Human Rights Project to obtain writs of habeas corpus for chimpanzees. From the US News and World Report story: The lawsuit states that chimps are entitled to a “fundamental right to bodily liberty,” which Wise told Reuters is the…
When it comes to stem cell news you can use the best source is Family Research Council’s resident mad scientist, Dr. David Prentice (actually the only time I’ve ever really seen him mad is when reporters and actual mad scientists neglect to point out the differences between embryonic and ethical forms of research.) His latest…
Tras recoger cerca de dos millones de firmas en apoyo de “One of us” (“Uno de nosotros”), los coordinadores de la Iniciativa en los 28 Estados europeos, reunidos en Cracovia (Polonia) el pasado fin de semana, han acordado la puesta en marcha de una federación europea para defender la vida ante las instituciones comunitarias. “Uno…
Primul Congres al Miscarilor Pro-Life Europene are loc la Cracovia, in incinta Sanctuarului Divinei Milostiviri ,multumita unor eforturi deosebite ale Federatiei Poloneze Pro-Life si a «Knights of Columbus». Prima zi a fost o zi dedicata organizarii, informarii dar si celebrarii succesului Initiativei «Unul dintre noi». Jakub Baltroszewicz , coordonatorul Initiativei in Polonia a adresat…
A leading campaigner against forced abortions and the one-child policy in China says the Asian nation has no business getting a spot on the United Nations Human Rights Council. Reggie Littlejohn, President of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, told LifeNews she thinks it is a travesty that China has returned to a seat at the U.N.…
Think of franchises, and McDonald’s or Starbucks springs to mind. But how about franchising clinics that do abortions and sterilizations? The population control movement has thought of this too. In the developing world, so-called “reproductive health clinics” are spreading like fast food chains in America through a network of organizations that want abortion and birth…