Included in Unicef’s three policy actions for Africa is: ‘Secure and ensure the right to protection from violence, exploitation, child marriage and abuse; and remove barriers preventing women and girls from participating fully in community, workplace, and political life with enhanced access to repr...
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This charity helps children living with serious long term health conditions to be cared for at home instead on hospital. A letter dated 20/12/2018 stated: ‘We do not fund research that uses human embryos’.
In a letter dated 27/11/2018 stated: ‘Our focus is on studies that are directly relevant to cancer prevention in humans. The creation of human-animal embryos is a long way from the type of research that World Cancer Research Fund UK would consider supporting.’ Member of the AMRC.
In a letter dated 7/12/2018 Action Aid stated: ‘we feel that as a responsible development agency working in the poorer countries of the world, birth control is one of the areas which should be addressed in our projects.’ ‘ActionAid believes that every woman has a right to make safe, informed reprod...
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In a letter dated 31/8/2018 the Chief Executive of Action on Addiction stated: ‘Action on Addiction is not involved in (and to my knowledge never has been involved) human embryo experimentation.
In a letter dated 30/8/2018 stated that it does fund ‘a small amount of research using cells from human embryos’. ‘We take very seriously the ethical issues involved and believe it is important that there is continuing open and informed public debate about this area of research. Member of the AMRC....
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A policy statement on this organisation’s website included the following: ‘Scientists believe that future medical progress will be achieved by undertaking research in all types of human stem cells, including very early embryos. Research involving embryonic stem cells is subject to stringent regulat...
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In a letter dated 7/9/2018 this charity stated that ‘it is not for us to take a view on an issue of conscience like assisted dying and therefore do not carry out or support any work related to this topic’.
This charity does not fund biomedical research. https://alcoholchange.org.uk/research-hub/alcohol-research-grants/what-we-fund
Alzheimer’s Research UK In a letter dated 22/11/2018 stated that it funds projects which ‘focus on using stem cells made from adult skin cells.’ However, they also fund some researchers who ‘may still study stem cells derived from human embryos.’
This organisation states: “We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.” Now aligned with the pro-abortion lobby, Amnesty International states: ‘Access to free, safe and legal abortions is a human right’. https://www.amnesty.org.uk/write-for-rights/action...
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In a statement on their website this organisation states: ‘The use of human embryonic stem cells remains an ethically contentious issue due to the potential destruction of the embryo to retrieve the inner cell mass. In recent years there have been great advances in reverting adult specialised cell...
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In a letter dated 19/11/2018, this charity wrote: ‘…the research undertaken at Anthony Nolan does not use, or perform, any experimental work on human embryos. We are fortunate to be able to work with stem cells from voluntary unrelated donors and from cord blood stem cells collected from the placent...
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Believes ‘that every parent should have access to non-directive information and support through antenatal testing and its consequences’. This organisation offers support to parents who decide either to continue with a pregnancy or abort because of ‘problems detected’ in their unborn baby. In SPUC’s...
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This is an umbrella group with over 140 member charities which are involved in medical research. All members of the AMRC are required to ‘support the principle of using animals in research’. https://www.amrc.org.uk/Pages/Category/research The AMRC is less explicit about its support for the use of...
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This organisation states on its website: ‘Asthma UK understands and appreciates that people do have concerns about medical research involving human embryos, and charities providing funding support for it. Asthma UK does not currently fund any projects that require human or hybrid human embryos but a...
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BBC Children in Need is an umbrella organisation, whose function is to give grants to a large number of smaller charities across the country. According to the BBC website, in 2018 Children in Need supported over 2,700 projects in communities across the UK. The list of projects is broken down by regi...
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BIG C – Norfolk’s Cancer Charity In a letter dated 19/12/2019, the Chief Executive of this charity stated: ‘I can categorically confirm that we would not offer grants or support researchers who use human embryo experimentation and please take this letter as a statement of fact.’
This charity stated in a letter dated 22/11/2018 that it ‘has not funded research involving experiments on human embryos’. Bloodwise keeps its research ‘under regular review including developing new policies when a need arises’. The Head of Research Funding stated: ‘We work with several research fu...
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In a letter dated 28/11/2018 this charity stated: ‘We do not have a written policy regarding human embryo experimentation as we have never funded any research that involves human embryos and are very unlikely to, as research of the nature is tightly governed and not directly relevant to our field.’ ...
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