ABSTRACT: Papers (motions, amendments, appeals, statements) introduced during the first session of the 36th Congress of the Radical Party (Rome, 30 April - 3 May 1992). The papers will be examined during the second session of the Congress, to be held, according to the new calendar (text N. 4293), "by the month of January 1993".

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SPECIAL MOTION presented by Maria Teresa Ravaioli

The XXXVI Congress of the transnational and transparty Radical Party, held in Rome from the 30 April to the 3 May 1992,for the following year.

COMMITS THE RADICAL PARTY:

- to support and promote, to the centre of the transnational initiatives reports of objection and of affermation of conscience, the concept of objection to vivisection or experiments on animals for all sanitary operations and science students;

- to promote initiatives with the aim to extend the concept of "subject rights" of other animals, and in reality overcoming the concept of species, to cover all animals.

- to spread detailed information about the use of animals used for experiments, using all means at it's disposal - the radio, tecnological means, magazines,.... - so as to allow the necessary knowledge to be generated in the deliberations;

- to call for at a Parliamentary level the bypassing of experiments on animals and vivisection, and other abuses on animals, promoting initiatives which finance projects for alternative research (without the use of animals) for vivisection, being careful about the real character of that kind of experimentation which is, for the greater part, carried out in laboratories deprived of any kind of public control, but financed directly by the States. Since they are qualified as research institutes, they are removed from the control of the public, health services and other similar organizations. Very often however they are under financial control of pharmaceutical organisations or even individual university professors.