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If the International Court of Justice rules that Israel has committed, and is committing, genocide, will it save Gaza? On January 11-12 the ICJ (AKA the World Court) will hear the petition brought to it by South Africa. Specialists in International law Francis Boyle and (independently) Daniel Machover firmly believe that this is how the

Pope Francis called for a worldwide ban on surrogacy, condemning it during an audience at the Vatican on Monday. "A child is always a gift and never the basis of a commercial contract. Consequently, I express my hope for an effort by the international community to prohibit this practice universally," he told ambassadors accredited to the Holy See. "At every moment of its existence, human life must be preserved and defended; yet I note with regret, especially in the West, the conti...

Pope Francis deplored “the practice of so-called surrogate motherhood” and called on the international community “to prohibit this practice universally.”

Corporate and political actors know more about how our minds work than we do. The right to free thought can no longer be our ‘forgotten freedom’

Devices that connect brains to computers are increasingly sophisticated. Can the nascent neurorights movement keep pace?

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis called on the international community to ban surrogate pregnancy, calling it "deplorable" and a "grave violation of the dignity of the woman and the child, based on the exploitation of situations of the mother's material needs." The path to peace requires respecting every human life, "starting with the life

Horrified by the effects of toxic waste in the Amazon, the Harvard-educated lawyer has spent decades fighting the companies he holds responsible. But amid accusation and counter-accusation, he tells Kevin E G Perry about the personal price he has had to pay

Horrified by the effects of toxic waste in the Amazon, the Harvard-educated lawyer has spent decades fighting the companies he holds responsible. But amid accusation and counter-accusation, he tells Kevin E G Perry about the personal price he has had to pay

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The path to peace requires respecting every human life, "starting with the life of the unborn child in the mother's womb."