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After Syrian Regime’s Collapse, Revelations Of NGO Complicity In Disappearance Of Children

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Post date February 3, 2025

These children live in a tiny apartment in the suburbs of Amman. The television is one of the only sources of entertainment. With family still inside Syria, the parents often follow Syrian channels that show graphic images of violence, destruction and death. UNHCR/O.Laban-Mattei

The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria freed thousands detained in the country’s prisons. But it has also revealed potential rights violations by international children’s NGOs, which received children whose parents were detained in Assad’s prisons. The situation echoes similar violations in Canada and Russia.

Tags assimilation, childcare institutions, childrens rights violations, ethical concerns, global organizations, indigenous children, lebanon, orphanages, political roles, residential schools, russias invasion, sos children's villages, sos childrens villages, state policies, syrian regime forces, ukrainian children

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The Ethics Behind Experimenting With Bodies Of The Brain-Dead

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Post date April 2, 2024

A team at the University of Maryland School of Medicine conducts surgery on January 7, 2022 to give a patient a gene-edited pig heart, marking the first time a gene-edited pig has been used as an organ donor. University Of Maryland School Of Medicine/ZUMA Press Wire Service

For the scientist who performs medicial research on the recently deceased, there are few regulatory or ethical guardrails.

Tags braindead bodies, ethical concerns, ethical guidelines, medical research cadavers, organ transplantation, regulatory loopholes, research funding, science, traffic accidents, xenotransplantation studies

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