SUPREME COURT DECISION ON RH LAW
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10354 : RH LAW AN ACT PROVIDING FOR A NATIONAL POLICY ON RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PETITIONS FILED AGAINST THIS LAW: G.R. No. 204819 G.R. No. 204934 G.R. No. 204957 G.R. No. 205003 G.R. No. 205138 G.R. No. 204988 G.R. No. 205043 G.R. No. 205478 G.R. No. 205491 G.R. No. 205720 G.R. No. 206355 G.R. No. 207111 G.R. No. 207172 G.R. No. 207563 SUPREME COURT DECISION , APRIL 8, 2014 DOWNLOAD COPY OF MAIN DECISION WHEREFORE, the petitions are PARTIALLY GRANTED. Accordingly, the Court declares R.A. No. 10354 as NOT UNCONSTITUTIONAL except with respect to the following 8…
An Invitation on National Seminar / Workshop on Anti-human Trafficking & Modern Day Slavery
This serves as an Invitation to the National Seminar / Workshop on Anti-human Trafficking & Modern Day Slavery on Feb. 27& 28, 2014 organized by the CBCP Office on Women/ NASSA/ Youth,Migrants/ Culture/& Legal Office at the University of Asia & the Pacific, Ortigas Center, Pasig City. Speakers will be John Klink of the Holy See, VP Jojo Binay, Sec. Leila De Lima,Cecilia Oebando, Debra Rosen, Attys. Gwen Pimentel, Nina Arroyo, Sam Inocencio, Susan Ople & Bishop Pabillo among others. All are exerts on Human Trafficking. This seminar is in partnership with UAP, Visayan Forum Foundation,JPIC Commission of Dominican Sisters of Siena, Association of Major…
Belgium: 95 Percent of Euthanasia Requests Get Rubber Stamp OK by Doctors
by Alex Schadenberg | Brussels, Belgium | LifeNews.com | 8/27/13 4:41 PM A study published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management – November 2011 titled: Process and Outcomes of Euthanasia Requests Under the Belgian Act on Euthanasia: A Nationwide Survey found that only 5% of requests for euthanasia in Belgium are refused. The Belgian study on the process and outcomes of euthanasia requests was part of the “Monitoring Quality of End-of-Life Care Study.” The researchers sent an anonymous self-administered questionnaire to 3006 Belgian physicians by mail in March 2009. Euthanasia was legalized in Belgium in 2002. Since some of the…
HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL ACTION
018 LISTS OF BOOKS HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL ACTION CODE TITLE AUTHOR/S PUBLISHER SYNOPSIS 018 – A Questioning the Solutions The Politics of Primary & Child Survival Richard Laing HealthWrights, 1997 Questioning the Solution analyzes why 13 million children still die every year from preventable causes, and challenges conventional Primary Health Care and Child Survival strategies. Too often, health and development planners try to use technological fixes rather than confront the social and economic inequities that perpetuate poverty, poor health, and high child mortality. As a case study, the authors show how marketing Oral Rehydration Therapy as a commercial product,…
