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Monday, March 05, 2007
Support academic freedom in Iraq
Here is a link to a Petition asking that the UK government support Iraqi academics. Colleagues in that country are currently under threat from more or less medieval forces. They're being kidnapped, tortured and murdered by sectarian barbarians in the country. The consequences for development are dire if teachers of medicine, nursing, architecture etc are leaving the country in order to save their lives and the lives of their loved ones.
Ethical Progress on the Abortion Care Frontiers on the African Continent
The Supreme Court of the United States of America has overridden 50 years of legal precedent and reversed constitutional protections [i] fo...
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The Jamaican national broadsheet The Gleaner published during the last two weeks columns by one of its columnists, Ian Boyne, attacking athe...
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The Canadian Society of Transplantation tells on its website a story that is a mirror image of what is happening all over the w...
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This German couple (brother and sister) has been living together for six years. They managed to produce a number of children, some of which...