September 2023
Conscientious Objection in Sweden?By Nicolas BauerThe Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief appointed by the Human Rights Council of the United Nations (UN), Ms Nazila Ghanea, will visit Sweden in the last quarter of 2023. As an NGO...
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Conscientious Objection to Cov VaccineBy Grégor PuppinckHundreds of people are invoking freedom of conscience before the European Court of Human Rights to challenge compulsory vaccination against covid. Grégor Puppinck takes stock of the European Court's...
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Conscientious Objection is a RightBy Grégor PuppinckSome Green and socialist MPs, committed to supporting abortion, have undertaken to remove the conscience clause in abortion. The bill will be put to a vote in the National Assembly on 18 February,
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WMA: ECLJ for Conscientious ObjectionBy ECLJThe World Medical Association (WMA), founded in 1947, defines itself as the " platform for consensus building in medical ethics ". Its role is decisive and its long-standing work in this field has...
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Mandatory Vaccination: GC-ECHR HearingBy Christophe FoltzenlogelOn Wednesday 1 July 2020, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights held its hearing in the case Vavřička and others v. the Czech Republic . The ECLJ intervened in this case as early as...
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Conscientious objection? Let's talkBy Gérard MémeteauArticle available in French only. Si le thème de l’objection de conscience s’impose un jour ou un autre à tous les juristes, et forcément aux moralistes (avant qu’il n’y eût des éthiciens), c’est...
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Vaccines The Grand Chamber Will decideBy Grégor PuppinckOne of the most frequent subjects of public controversy, even more when it is compulsory, as in France, is vaccination. The European Court of Human Rights is going to rule solemnly on this issue,
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The Conscience Clause at Risk?By Gérard MémeteauThe "conscience clause" is the stipulation, or the legal, constitutional provision of natural law, allowing a subject not to apply an order, directive or precept contrary to the philosophical or...
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Covid 19 - Right of withdrawalBy ECLJIn less than a week of containment to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus, we have just experienced another upheaval that few people have really perceived. On the one hand, the almost unanimous...
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ECHR Curtails Conscientious ObjectionBy Grégor PuppinckIn a double decision made public on Thursday 12 March 2020, three judges of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) deprived European midwives of the guarantee of their right to conscientious...
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Signatures
Vaccines: Establishing States' LimitsSign
The recent development of biotechnology requires to lay down principles delimiting the power of public administration over the body of people with particular acuity. Public health has certainly...
October 2018
ECHR/Mayors: no freedom of conscience!By Grégor PuppinckOpinion page published in French in Le FigaroVox on 18 October 2018. FIGAROVOX/OPINION- The European Court of Human Rights has declared inadmissible the application filed in 2015 by mayors refusing...
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WMA: Regress for Physicians & UnbornBy ECLJDuring its General Assembly in Reykjavik in October 2018, the World Medical Association (WMA) adopted a new " Statement on Medically-Indicated Termination of Pregnancy". This international...
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Pharmacist to ECHR: Conscientious ObjBy ECLJThe ECLJ, with the help of Adeline le Gouvello de La Porte, esq. wrote and lodged the formal application of Bruno Pichon, pharmacist, at the European Court of Human Rights concerning the violation of...
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WMA on Medically-Indicated AbortionBy Nicolas BauerEstablished in 1947 in response to the Nazi human experimentation, the World Medical Association (WMA) is close to adopting a text contrary to its own missions and goals. This international...
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ECHR & compulsory vaccinationBy Grégor PuppinckCan one refuse compulsory vaccination? The European Court will soon rule. While the French government announced its will to make compulsory 11 vaccines for children under 2, the European Court has...
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February 2017
Conscientious Objection & Human RightsBy ECLJ This study analyses the notion of ‘conscientious objection’ with the aim of identifying criteria in order to determine to what extent it is legitimate, in view of freedom of conscience and religion,
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Mayors' Conscience & Same-sex MarriageBy ECLJ 30 Mayors, members of the Collective “Maires Pour l’Enfance” (Mayors for Childhood) have filed a complaint with the Human Rights Committee on Friday 16 th December 2016, for violation of the freedom...
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