A new British Medical Journal study has found that non-religious doctors are more likely to discuss end of life decisions with their patients. The study by Dr Clive Seale from the Centre for Health Sciences at Queen Mary University concludes that greater acknowledgement of the relationship between doctors’ values and clinical decision making would improve patient care.

IHEU-Appignani Center for Bioethics and Bioethics International cordially invite you to a one-day conference concerning New Dilemmas in Medicine: Three Current Controversies in Genetics, Religion, and Big Pharma.

The IHEU-Appignani Center for Bioethics is to co-sponsor a side event at the 52nd UN Commission on the Status of Women, on 3 March 2008 in New York City, USA.

IHEU-Appignani Center for Bioethics in NYC co-sponsored by The UN Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and the Advancement of Women (OSAGI) and The Council of Europe invite you to attend the panel:

The IHEU-Appignani Humanist Center for Bioethics and The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies present Human Rights for the 21st Century: Rights of the Person to Technological Self-Determination - May 11-13, 2007. We now have speaker details and abstracts available.

On Wednesday, February 28, 2007 in New York, a panel of bioethicists, physicians and activists will discuss “Health and Empowerment: The impact of HIV/AIDS epidemic worldwide and Female Genital Mutilation in African Diaspora Communities” at the United Nations under the auspices of the Division for the Advancement of Women, Commission on the Status of Women.

The Status of the Human Embryo

On Friday, Dec. 1, 2006, a panel of leading bioethicists, physicians & psychiatrists will discuss cognitive liberty at the United Nations. The meeting will be held on the 2nd floor of 777 UN Plaza in New York City, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Who: IHEU - Appignani Center for Bioethics & the Alden March Bioethics Institute of Albany, N.Y.
What: UN Bioethics Panel Cognitive Liberty in an Age of Neurotechnology
Where: 777 UN Plaza, New York City, 2nd Floor
When: Friday, Dec. 1, 2006, 6 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

1 Introduction

In this paper I shall look at the communitarians’ accounts of human rights in Africa as conceived by scholars writing on the African experience. I shall explore their understanding of the notion of equality, and their ideas on human rights in terms of a proclaimed African communitarian ethos and proceed with a critique of these notions. I argue that despite many African thinkers’ insistence that African communitarianism does encapsulate a respect for the individual’s rights, dignity and liberties, communitarianism (whether it be extreme or moderate) does not enfold a paradigm of individual human rights-claims, but instead embraces an authoritarian and sexist paradigm.