Click the links below to read a variety of reaction to the launch of Lord Falconer’s Assisted Dying Bill: Why shouldn’t we legalise assisted suicide? – CARE comment piece ahead of the publication of the Bill Scope responds to assisted suicide legal challenges – Scope Disabled people should not be talked into suicide, says Scope [...]

Press Release: 14 May 2013 Protected offline, but exposed online, says Baroness Howe Today, Baroness Howe of Idlicote will introduce legislation intended to protect under-eighteens from adult content online. Welcomed by internet safety charities, her new Online Safety Bill has its First Reading in the House of Lords today. Baroness Howe explained the hypocrisy of [...]

On Wednesday 15 May, Lord Falconer will table a Bill in the House of Lords in an effort to legalise assisted suicide.  This is not surprising news, but it does mean that we have the opportunity, responsibility and duty to advocate the value of human life, speak up for the vulnerable and expose the dangers [...]

On Monday, the Irish Supreme Court delivered another defeat for those seeking to legalise assisted suicide.  Marie Fleming, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, had sought permission for her partner to be able to her to end her life without facing prosecution for doing so.  However, the Supreme Court ruled against her. Mrs Fleming had argued [...]

This week CARE welcomed a report scrutinising the Government’s plans to regulate remote (online) gambling. The report issued by the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee gives full support for the principle of regulating gambling on a ‘point of consumption’ basis. In December last year, the Government published a draft Bill with the intention of [...]

This afternoon the Northern Ireland Assembly rejected a motion calling for the introduction of legislation to introduce same-sex marriage by 53 votes to 42. This was a greater margin of victory than was the case when this subject was debated six months ago, when the Assembly voted against the redefinition of marriage by 50 votes [...]

I am delighted to be able to report that four good resolutions were adopted this week by the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly on several issues of concern to CARE.  The Parliamentary Assembly, comprised of seconded members of national parliaments of the 47 Member States, has a plenary session every quarter which I attended in [...]

CARE in Northern Ireland was very pleased to see Sinn Fein overwhelmingly back a campaign to make buying sex a criminal offence at its Ard Fheis (Party Conference) on Saturday evening.  Sinn Fein members voted to support the ‘Turn Off the Red Light Campaign’ – a coalition of organisations including political parties, Trade Unions, Christian [...]

The charity CARE has linked the fall in organ donation numbers in Wales[1] to growing public disquiet over controversial plans by the Welsh Government to introduce deemed (presumed) consent. Ahead of tomorrow’s major debate on the Human Transplantation [Wales] Bill, CARE warns the Welsh Government that this decline in donations should give it cause to [...]

In the past five years, the number of people in the UK donating organs after death has increased by 50%, matching a target set by the Department of Health’s Organ Donation Taskforce in 2008.  The number of transplants taking place over the same period has risen by 30% (this figure is lower as some organs [...]