- Beginning with the CWC or chemical
weapons convention, reported by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg in Bulletin of
Atomic Scientist Sept./Oct 1994 p. 45, stated that under "The Certain
Conventional Weapons Convention (also known as the Inhumane Weapons
Convention and by its full name, "Convention on Prohibition or Restriction
of the use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be
Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects", international
discussions are now under way that may lead to the development of a
specific new protocols covering electromagnetic weapons;.
- The European Parliament Resolution
A4-005/99, environment, security and foreign policy passed on Jan 29,
1999. Item 27 is as follows. "Calls for international convention
introducing a global ban on all developments and deployments of weapons
which might enable any form of manipulation of human beings."
- Electromagnetic Weapons Summary: by
Grattan Healy, Advisor on Energy & Research Green Group in the
European Parliament: February '99
- There are steps forward and back,
Dec/Jan 97/98 Nexus, p8 stated that "On 19 November 1996 something
happened in Strasbourg, France, which could fundamentally remove many of
the rights of patients. It had no public airing beforehand, and has been
little reported on ever since.
After marathon discussions, the Committee of Ministers of 39
European Union member states adopted the Convention on Human Rights and
Biomedicine. This allows for future drug use and other medical trials to
be carried out on potentially huge numbers of people, possibly without
their consent.
- The United Nations General Assembly has
adopted this 1996 Resolution 51/37. Prohibition of the development and
manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new system of
such weapons.
- International Committee for the
Convention Against Offensive Microwave Weapons 1998 Civil Court Case
Dismissed and Appealed to the Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights
- World Organization Against Torture. An
official 1998 recommendation to conduct "a thorough and impartial
investigation into involuntary human experimentation involving new forms
of classified research and testing of high technology military weaponry
including microwave and laser equipment"
- The International Bioethics Committee
IBC of UNESCO, Proceedings of the Third Session September 1995, Volume1
included the conclusion to chapter 1 entitled "Ethics and Neurosciences"
by Jean-Didier Vincent, Director of the Alfred-Fessard Institute, ".As a
possible instrument of encroachment on human liberty and dignity, the
neurosciences may also turn out to be a poisoned chalice on which the
worst forms of ideology may thrive. The purpose of this report is to
examine in a clear-sighted way and without complacency, the hopes and
risks involved and to issue a few warnings of an ethical nature."
- The medical profession and the effects
of weapons, Excerpts and recommendations from the Reports of the Symposium
held under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross
Montreux, Switzerland, 8-10 March 1996.
- Russian State Duma Expert Yuriy Lopatin
Calling for Legislation Banning Illegal Development and Sale of
Mind-Control Devices Excerpt from the "Man and Law Program, Moscow Russian
Public Television First Channel Network in Russina 1610 GMT 6 Oct 95.