U.N. to Debate Anti-Cloning Treaty
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The highly contentious issue of cloning is back on the U.N. agenda, with support among member states for a treaty banning human cloning but divisions over the use of human embryos for medical research.
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The UN General Assembly is set to adopt a treaty giving greater rights to the world's 650m disabled people
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The United States was set to bring its call for a total ban on human cloning back to the UN on Thursday as the world community again struggled for consensus on the divisive issue.
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Long a forum for protecting endangered species like whales or tigers, a UN meeting in Bangkok next month will seek a wider role in regulating the
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Opponents of human therapeutic cloning begin a legal challenge to the granting of the first UK licence.
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Britain's leading scientific institution said Monday it is urging countries to back a campaign to stop a possible ban on stem cell research as part of a global treaty banning human cloning.
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Britain&#39;s leading academic institution is backing an international campaign to stop the US securing an international ban on all forms of human cloning.
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The Bush administration on Friday urged quick U.N. action on a global treaty to ban all cloning of human embryos, including for medical research, but diplomats said the measure would go nowhere before the Nov. 2 U.S. elections.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday endorsed scientific studies that involve the cloning of human embryos, differing with the Bush administration's push for a treaty to ban such research.
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EU biotech experts will debate next  week whether to allow imports of carnations whose color has  been genetically modified, possibly the first new approval of a  GMO plant in eight years, officials said on Friday.
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The UN General Assembly&#39;s legal committee begins a two-day debate today that will focus on the contentious issue. There is support among member states for a treaty banning human cloning, but divisions remain
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The United Nations has shelved efforts to draft a treaty banning the cloning of human embryos in a setback for the Bush administration.
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UN members drop attempts to draw up a treaty banning the cloning of human embryos, in a defeat for the US.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday endorsed scientific studies that involve the cloning of human embryos, differing with the Bush administration&#39;s push for a treaty to ban such research.
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The Vatican, in its first speech ever to the U.N. General Assembly, called Wednesday for a total ban on human cloning and criticized the war in Iraq and unilateral responses to terrorism.
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Lawmakers begin debating legislation this week that would lift a ban on cloning human embryos for stem cell research &#151; a bill that, if passed, could make Australia a world leader in research into diseases such as diabetes and Alzheimer's.
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U.N. diplomats drafting an  international treaty on the rights of the disabled debated a  possible ban on the abortion of fetuses with disabilities in an  emotional negotiating session that ended on Friday.