RIGHTS-EUROPE:  New Probe Into Forced Sterilisation
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PRAGUE, Sep 20 (IPS) - Czech officials are investigating claims that Roma  women are still being forced to undergo sterilisation.
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Violence is anathema to modern German sensibilities. That pacifism applied to video games could mean legal repercussions. By Bruce Gain.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 17 (IPS) - European environmental groups are preparing to  challenge business groups this week over new EU proposals that  aim to cut out dangerous chemicals.
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LISBON, Feb 12 (IPS) - It took more than three decades of struggle by  activists for Portugal to give the green light, via referendum,  to parliament to make the country's strict anti-abortion law  more flexible.
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The post from World Health Organization researchers on the practice they call female genital mutilation (FGM) has prompted a couple of critical responses from other researchers. One is a comment from Richard Shweder of the University of Chicago, who calls it "bureaucratic boilerplate" and says it's further evidence that "identity politics has triumphed over science [...].
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Italys new restrictive law on assisted reproduction, introduced in March this year which made it illegal for doctors to carry out pre-natal genetic diagnosis of embryos has created a diaspora of couples seeking ...
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LONDON, Sep 2 (IPS) - The London conference on reproductive health  concluded Thursday with a resolution backing the right to  abortion.
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A haemophiliac exposed to contaminated blood products over 20 years ago gives evidence at an independent inquiry.
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BRUSSELS, May 25 -- An independent European Union panel is investigating whether Google's Internet search engine follows European privacy rules, which tend to be stricter than those in the United States.
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Europe's top food safety agency has been asked to determine whether meat and milk from cloned animals are safe to eat, European Commission officials said on Thursday.
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The condition of the baby at the centre of a right to life debate has changed for the better, a High Court judge hears.
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Is European Union membership bad for your health? For prime ministers of the three leading new members of the EU - Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary - it has been nothing less than fatal.
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L'Italia modello di inclusione e contaminazione
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Sofia protesta per sentenza infermiere, Ue 'scioccata'
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BRUSSELS, Feb 1 (IPS) - Plans by the European Union to allow police to  study data on asylum-seekers have run into difficulty amid  concerns that the move could result in victims of persecution  being treated as criminal suspects.
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MADRID, Dec 22 (IPS) - Europe's first law specifically cracking down  on  gender-based violence was unanimously passed Wednesday in  Spain, and  received a hearty welcome from activists, although it  did not escape  criticism from the right.
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LONDON, Jan 29 (IPS) - The European Parliament passed a unanimous   resolution this week urging a Europe-wide ban on incitement to  racial and  religious hatred. That specifically could include a  ban on the swastika,  the symbol adopted by the Nazis.