Belgium: Report Reveals Euthanasia Commission Authorized Euthanasia of Three...
(Oct. 29, 2018) Belgium has the world’s only law allowing terminally ill minors in “unbearable suffering” to choose to die. (Henry Samuel, Belgium Authorized Euthanasia of a Terminally Ill Nine and...
View ArticleAustralia: Queensland Enacts Historic Human Rights Legislation
(Mar. 6, 2019) On February 27, 2019, the Queensland Parliament passed the Human Rights Bill 2018 (Qld), making it the third jurisdiction in Australia to enshrine human rights protections in such...
View ArticleUAE: Court Orders Doctors to Pay Blood Money to Patient’s Family
(Apr. 16, 2019) On March 29, 2019, the United Arab Emirates Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi upheld the rulings of a criminal court of first instance and an appellate court to grant the family of a...
View ArticleJapan: New Law Enacted to Compensate Family Members of Former Hansen’s...
(Dec. 18, 2019) The Diet, Japan’s parliament, enacted a new law to compensate family members of former Hansen’s disease (leprosy) patients in November 2019. (Act on Payments of Compensation for Family...
View ArticleIsrael: Ministry of Health Issues Guidelines on Use of Cameras in COVID-19...
(Apr. 28, 2020) On April 6, 2020, Israel’s Ministry of Health (MOH) issued the Camera-Corona Directive (CCD), providing guidelines for the use of cameras in hospital units caring for COVID-19 patients....
View ArticleGermany: Constitutional Court Strikes Down Provision Criminalizing Commercial...
(Apr. 29, 2020) On February 26, 2020, the German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht, BVerfG) held that the provision in the German Criminal Code criminalizing commercial assisted...
View ArticleAustralia: Bills Banning Conversion Therapy Enacted in Two Jurisdictions
(Sept. 25, 2020) Two Australian jurisdictions recently enacted legislation banning practices that seek to change a person’s sexual or gender identity, often referred to as “conversion therapy.” The...
View ArticleArgentina: Senate Passes Bill Legalizing Abortion
(Jan. 7, 2021) On December 30, 2020, Argentina’s Senate passed a bill legalizing abortion until the 14th week of pregnancy. The vote, which took place after a 12-hour debate, saw 38 senators supporting...
View ArticleSpain: Bill on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Approved by Congress of...
(Feb. 9, 2021) On December 17, 2020, Bill No. 46-7 on the Organic Law to Regulate Euthanasia was approved by the Plenary of the Spanish Congress of Deputies (lower house) with 198 votes in favor, 138...
View ArticleEngland: Permission to Appeal Granted in Case Requiring Court Order for...
(Mar. 19, 2021) On January 18, 2021, the High Court in England granted the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust permission to appeal a High Court ruling that children under 16 cannot give informed consent...
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