One of Us, questionnaire on bioethics for candidates for European elections Last year, almost 2,000,000 EU citizens all over the 28 Member States signed the ONE OF US European Citizens Initiative, which became the biggest ever among all other initiatives. This initiative claims that human life protection and dignity should be guaranteed. This questionnaire (click to…
RESEARCH ON EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS Presented by Professor Filippo VARI 1.1. Our request Our request is to ensure, through modifications of the EU’s Financial Regulation and the Regulation on FP 8 (“Horizon 2020”), that the EU research budget is not used to finance research projects that involve or presuppose the destruction of human embryos. 1.2. The Commission Position…
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…
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…
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.
On 10 April 2014, a public hearing will be held at the EP in Brussels (Room József Antall 4Q2) 09:00 to 12.30 (CET) to allow for the presentation of the Citizens’ Initiative ‘One of Us’. The initiative requests the prohibition of EU financing of activities which involve the destruction of human embryos, especially in the…
A public hearing on the European Citizens’ Initiative “One of Us” will be organised on 10.04.2014 in the European Parliament’s premises in Brussels, room JAN 4Q2, from 09.00 to 12.30. The initiative asks the EU to prohibit the financing of activities which presuppose the destruction of human embryos, especially in the areas of research, development…
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.…