Sterilisation and intellectually disabled people in New Zealand—still on the agenda?

Support through care and protection within a medical framework, rather than through the idea of independence within the least restrictive environment, continues to guide service provision for intellectually disabled people in the sexuality area. Past practices have included use of involuntary sterilisation. This article outlines the outcome of a search for information undertaken because of concerns that use of sterilisation-related procedures may remain embedded in contemporary approaches to sexuality support management. Verified instances of hysterectomy carried out between 1991 and 2001 were uncovered. Documents tabled at a Parliamentary Select Committee in 2003 expressing concerns about use in relation to young disabled girls were also found. Requests for sterilisation-related procedures exemplify how the right of all vulnerable citizens to full bodily integrity is currently adjudicated in New Zealand. It is suggested that further research is needed to pinpoint and address the underlying social customs through which requests for such procedures are negotiated and resolved

Data Snapshot: Millennials and Climate Change

From more frequent flooding to heat waves and drought, adverse impacts from climate change are already being experienced.Scientists warn of worse impacts within the lifetime of many people alive today, if greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced. Although majorities in all age groups recognize the reality of climate change, awareness is highest among young adults

Finitary Group Cohomology and Group Actions on Spheres

We show that if G is an infinitely generated locally (polycyclic-by-finite) group with cohomology almost everywhere finitary, then every finite subgroup of G acts freely and orthogonally on some sphere.Comment: 6 page

Moving Ideas and Money: Issues and Opportunities in Funder Funding Collaboration

Presents an overview of funder collaboratives, ranging from information exchange, co-learning, informal and formal strategic alignments to pooled funding, joint ventures, and hybrid networks. Discusses elements of success, outcomes, and challenges

Complexes of Cellular Protein HAX-1 and Protein PA of the Influenza RNA Polymerase

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Comments on Draft General Comment 37 on Article 21 ICCPR: The Right of Peaceful Assembly

This report seeks to inform the drafting of General Comment 37 on article 21 ICCPR, the right to freedom of peaceful assembly. It compiles key principles elaborated in the Committee’s freedom of assembly jurisprudence and relevant declarative statements in the Committee’s Concluding Observations on State reports. The report seeks to identify both the issues and themes that General Comment 37 might most usefully address, and further topics that might benefit from further clarification. The report thus seeks to provide the Human Rights Committee with a resource during the drafting of General Comment 37