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Surrogacy

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About The Village CAB. What is a CAB. Surrogacy in where a woman carries a child to term on behalf of other people with the intention of giving the child up when s/he is born. The surrogate mother is usually the genetic mother of the child. These arrangements are possible in the UK and usually take the form of a man donating sperm and the resulting child being cared for by the sperm donor. Relationship of the parent. This site is maintained by The Village Citizens Advice Bureau a part of.

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The Village: Adoption

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About The Village CAB. What is a CAB. Adoption is a legal process where all the rights and responsibilities of the birth parents are permanently transferred to the adoptive parents by a court order. This process is sometimes used by couples who have conceived via donor insemination and wish to sever any legal relationship between the donor and the child. Most people will apply to their local authority to be considered as a potential adopter but as it is not necessary to live in the area of the local auth...

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The Village: Transgender Discrimination

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About The Village CAB. What is a CAB. Much of the discrimination and harassment aimed at lesbians, gay men and bisexuals has a basis in prejudice against anyone who behaves in a way that is seen to conflict with a persons gender. Sometimes prejudice against a gay man may focus on whether he is not seen as a 'real' man or is considered to be effeminate. However, except in the area of employment, there is very little protection against discrimination on the basis of gender expression. In order to achieve a...

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Village CAB: Spent Convictions

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About The Village CAB. What is a CAB. The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 sets out to make life easier for many people who have been convicted of a criminal offence and who have since lived on the right side of the law. A person convicted of all but the most serious criminal offences and who receives a sentence less than 2.5 years in prison, benefits from the Act if they are not convicted again during a specified period. This is called the rehabilitation period. Aged 18 or over when convicted.

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Donor Insemination

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About The Village CAB. What is a CAB. Donor insemination is a process where donated semen is introduced into a woman's vagina in order to produce a pregnancy. It does not include situations where an ovum is fertilised outside the body as part of fertility treatment or heterosexual intercourse. Donor insemination can take place either via a licensed clinic or by means of "self insemination". Status of the Donor. A licensed clinic will usually test the donated sperm for health risks in ways that are not av...

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The Village: Getting Advice

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About The Village CAB. What is a CAB. We regret that due to changes in funding we are currently unable to offer direct advice services to the public. For details of your nearest Citizens Advice Bureau please visit www.adviceguide.org.uk. This site is maintained by The Village Citizens Advice Bureau a part of. Citizens Advice Bureaux (Salford). Registered Office 40-44 Church Street, Eccles, Salford M30 0DF. Registered Number 226364 Charity Registration Number 701559.

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Fertility Treatment

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About The Village CAB. What is a CAB. Fertility treatments (for the purpose of this information page) means a procedure where an egg is fertilized outside the 'mothers' body. In the UK the only form of fertility treatment that is likely to be available to lesbians is in vitro fertilization with the mother's ovary. The difficulties in obtaining this service are similar to that of obtaining donor insemination from clinics, the main difference being that the cost of IVF is much higher.

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Interpreting the Human Rights Act

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About The Village CAB. What is a CAB. Interpreting the Human Rights Act. Interpreting the European Convention. Interpreting The European Convention. The Strasbourg court has adopted a number of principles of interpretation of the Convention:. The Strasbourg court takes an overall view of the situation and seeks to give a practical and effective interpretation to the rights. Terms or expressions in the Convention have the same meaning for all the countries bound by it. That meaning is given independen...

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Convention Rights

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About The Village CAB. What is a CAB. The European Convention on Human Rights is a treaty of the Council of Europe, which was adopted in 1950 and ratified by the United Kingdom in 1951. It was designed to give binding effect to the guarantee of various rights and freedoms in the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights, adopted in December 1948. The Convention guarantees the following rights and freedoms:. Article 2:The Right to Life. Slavery means that a person is owned by someone else, just as if the...