Are we doing our best for the health of people with trisomy 21?
World Youth Alliance in collaboration with Jerome Lejeune Foundation and two members of the European Parliament (MEPs) Miroslav Mikolasik and Marek Jurek hosted a debate with people with Down Syndrome and renewed European Researchers C. Mircher, L. Meijer, M. Dierssen, Y. Herautl and J. Fortea on the 21st of March 2017 in the European Parliament. […]
Call to MEPs to Prevent Child Exposure to Pornography and Violence – Protect Children from Harmful Audiovisual Contents
The European Parliament is about to adopt its report on the revision of the EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive, which regulates TVs, On-Demand services (e.g. Netflix) and video-sharing platforms (e.g. Youtube). The current directive explicitly forbids that television broadcasts programmes that contain pornography or gratuitous violence, in order to protect minors from these harmful contents. […]
Exposure of children to pornography
Our internet focused societies are increasingly targeting children in pushing them into a culture of porn. WYA has been participating in the Conference on Exposure of Children to Pornography in the EU, which demonstrated the negative influence that porn has on society, especially targeting children, youth, and family. Concern was expressed regarding the new proposal […]
Protection of the vulnerable by health care institutions
Recently, new laws that allow doctors to help terminally ill patients to end their own lives have been approved in places like Washington, D.C., and the U.S. state of Colorado. It’s essential that we look at the impact that this law will have on the patients, doctors, the government and the society. What we are […]
Unconditional Love and infinite value
When a child grows up, it is fundamental that he feels loved just because he is a human person, no matter any other condition. The unconditional love of his parents has a key role in making the child aware of his infinite value. This is the root that will make him able to develop integrally. […]
Palliative Care and Human Dignity
The objectives of the medicine could be summarized into two: to preserve life and to relieve suffering. However, as the end of life gets closer, the alleviation of suffering acquires more importance, as the preservation of life is no longer possible. At a certain point, terminally ill patients may decide not to continue treatment with […]
Investing in the Family, Investing in the Future
I and my fellow WYA members attended a European Youth Workshop and Conference titled “Family, investing in the future” and organized by the Confederation of Family Associations in the Carpathian Basin. The program, which was hosted by Hungarian MEP György Hölvényi from the EPP, took place at the European Parliament. The speakers addressed the challenges faced […]
Nadia Murad awarded the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize
This week the Council of Europe has awarded the Vaclav Havel Human Rights price to Nadia Murad; a Yazidi human rights activist who survived ISIS genocide in Iraq. Nadia denounced the lack of attention and action against Islamic terrorism. After loosing many members of her family and friends, Nadia has taken the responsibility of making […]
Conflicts of interest: does the surrogacy industry care about what’s best for children?
A consensus is building among countries and political parties that banning surrogacy is necessary to protect children’s and women’s rights, but there is still an unresolved question: how can we protect the best interests of children born through surrogacy? In other words, is it possible to ban surrogacy and still respect the rights of those […]
Human rights and the baby market
Les droits de l’homme à l’épreuve de la marchandisation de l’enfant [tabs] [tab title=”English”] Human rights and the baby market Brussels recently hosted the European fair for having children through gestational surrogacy organized by the surrogacy group Men Having Babies. At the same time, the Council of Europe has just rejected a very controversial resolution […]
