Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/270390 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Research Paper No. 163
Publisher: 
South Centre, Geneva
Abstract: 
In times when the role of science in society is more debated than ever in polarized, politicized and partial terms, what is the role for the human right to science and rights-based approaches? The right to science remains poorly understood and neglected in both national and global human rights processes. Beyond defending the freedom of scientific expression, upholding the right to science is arguably fundamental to resolving key sustainability challenges of our times from climate change and the biodiversity crisis to global health and pandemics. The global COVID-19 pandemic has revealed persistent global inequalities not least in terms of how the privatization of science and current intellectual property regimes hinder just and equitable responses to access science and its benefits. This prompts the need for a shift from single-issue approaches to comprehensive and systematic treatment of the right to science as a bundle of human rights across multiple arenas to counter fragmentation and silo-tendencies.
Subjects: 
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Access to Medicines
Access to Science
Biodiversity
Climate Change
COVID-19
Global Health
Human Rights
Inequalities
Innovation
Intellectual Property
Pandemic
Right to Science
Science
Sustainability
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Swiss Commission for UNESCO
Technology
UNESCO
Document Type: 
Research Report
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