Judge Christian Byk renders service to the Steering Committee on Bioethics of the Council of Europe (CDBI) by proposing a draft of the protocol destined to fill in a gap in international law on the status of the human embryo. This proposal, printed in a previous issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics deserves nevertheless to be questioned on important points. Is Christian Byk proposing to legal...

The aim of the work is to identify and disclose distinctive features regulation protection cultural heritage in accordance with main conventions Council Europe this area, which are subject study. methodological basis article methods deduction, induction, analysis, synthesis, formal-logical, descriptive, system-structural, historical, comparative, formal-legal methods. paper identifies problems ...

Language engineering encompassing natural language processing and speech processing became very important for a development of every nation in multilingual Europe. After the Council of European Union approved conclucions on linguistic and cultural diversity, tools and systems created for every European language are necessary to overcome language barriers and to use all languages in various sphe...

In International conventions and policies it is recognised that all human beings are of equal worth and that this should not be affected by the existence of a disability, regardless of its nature or its degree or by any other factor, such as ageing, nationality or income. People with disabilities and ageing people are citizens who have the same rights and duties and who should have the same opp...

In September 2004, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers officially adopted a set of standards recommended by the Multidisciplinary Ad Hoc Group of Specialists on legal, operational and technical standards for e-enabled voting [7]. This paper puts the standards in their historical context, examines them according to established software engineering principles, and finally suggests how ...

Author details Department of Operations Research, HIV/AIDS Program. Population Council, Nigeria. No. 16, Mafemi Crescent, Utako, Abuja, Nigeria. Department of Health Policy and Management, Diadem Consults Ltd, Abuja, Nigeria. Management Sciences for Health, Abuja, Nigeria. Howard University PACE Center, Washington, USA. Society for Family Health, Abuja, Nigeria. Family Health International 360,...

World Congress on Mental Health, 1948 In response to many requests, and after consultation with the International Committee for Mental Hygiene (U.S.A.) and Mental Hygiene Councils in America, Canada and Europe, the Provisional National Council for Mental Health are proposing to arrange a World Congress on Mental Health to be held in London from August 5th-14th, 1948. This will be the third Worl...

at the moment, 14 european talent centres belong to the recently formed european talent support network, which, in the long run, can bring new dimensions to pan-european cooperation in supporting young talented people all over europe.  exchange and adaptation of best practices, spread and application of scientific results, possibilities of mutual visits of young talents, their teachers, mentors...