28 Apr 2025
The ISC stands with @ScholarsAtRisk in calling for the release of Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali. #FreeDjalali
His detention is a grave reminder that the right to participate in and benefit from #science must be recognized and protected as a universal human right. #RightToScience
24 Apr 2025
Ahead of the anniversary of Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali’s unjust arrest in #Iran on April 26, his wife and daughter reflected on their family-oriented husband and father who was wrongfully taken away from them in an interview with SAR. Read the full interview:
scholarsatrisk.org/2025/04/i…
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31 Mar 2025
Feliz de que la primera publicación de DICIENTS ya ha sido publicada y está accesible sin costo a través del siguiente link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1krHu…!!!!
#ScienceDiplomacy #Neuroscience #Technology #Society #LatinAmerica #GlobalSouth #RightToScience #SDGS2030
21 Mar 2025
La Red DICIENTS Inicia el 2025 con impulso en Diplomacia Científica y Neurociencia
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27 Jan 2025
Good stuff from @TAGTeam_Tweets on access to medicines as a core obligation of international human rights law.
💊🌐⚖️ #RightToHealth #RightToScience #a2m
24 Jan 2025
Access to medicines MUST be recognized by states as a core obligation under international human rights law. Read TAG's submission to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (@ohchr) to inform their upcoming report: treatmentactiongroup.org/let…
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10 Dec 2024
The UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights @AlexXanthaki reflects on the ISC’s interpretation of the #RightToScience, emphasizing its role in fostering equitable progress. 🔬 Science must be framed within #HumanRights to create sustainable solutions.
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10 Dec 2024
The #RightToScience is a fundamental human right. In this editorial, Dr. Mahadeo Sukhai, the world’s first congenitally blind geneticist, emphasizes that science must be accessible to all, including people with disabilities. Read his full story ⬇️
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19 Nov 2024
💡 #RightToScience: The ISC has just released a clear framework for understanding the "right to participate in and benefit from science" - offering a detailed interpretation and guide.
Learn more about this fundamental right and join the conversation ⬇️
council.science/our-work/rig…
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17 Oct 2024
Great! Let’s make sure the #PandemicAgreement actually incorporates tangible #equity commitments in line with states’ existing #righttoscience and #righttohealth obligations.
💥 Parliamentarians at the #UNITEGlobalSummit 2024 sign a statement in support of the @WHO #PandemicAgreement with 4⃣ commitments:
🟰 Equity
🌍 Global Solidarity
🏦 Legislative Action
🙅🏽 Combating Misinformation
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6 Aug 2024
Just handed in our conference paper on #righttoscience #techtransfer in the field
of #biotech and #AI - stressing #opensource AI. Looking forward to conference hosted by @ius_fribourg #SamanthaBesson to discuss in detail! Thank you @CIBSS_UniFR #ReScale and @CarrCenter & my team!
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17 Jun 2024
UN Special Rapporteur Marcos Orellana highlights how #HumanRights principles can be reflected in #SPPCWP through:
🔹 #ConflictOfInterest disclosure
🔹 Addressing commercially sensitive info
🔹 Space for Indigenous knowledge & lived experiences
🔹 Reference to #RightToScience
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13 Jun 2024
Great panel today regarding #WikiForHumanRights! They will be posting info on it here: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Even…
@Wikimedia @Wikipedia #HumaRights #ClimateChange #RightToScience #DigitalHumanRights
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12 Jun 2024
Marcos Orellana, @SRtoxics, highlights the importance of upholding #RightToScience in #SPPCWP, underscoring that having a dedicated body tasked with examining disclosures would reduce transaction costs & assure integrity, while actively including "experts of lived experience".
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12 Jun 2024
Chairing the discussion, Ana Paula Souza presents the information note of @UNHumanRights for #SPPCWP #OEWG3 highlighting that the #RightToScience will protect the #ConflictsOfInterests.
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11 Mar 2024
@TAGTeam_Tweets and I submitted an oral intervention for the interactive dialogue with @AlexXanthaki at #HRC55. Below is the transcript of our contribution on participation and #righttoscience in full: /1
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11 Mar 2024
Thank you @TAvafia and @UNITAID for recognizing the human rights dimensions of science. Everyone, including children, has the right to enjoy and participate in the benefits of scientific advancement and its applications #righttoscience #icescr
11 Mar 2024
Deputy ED @TAvafia of @UNITAID talks about the intersection between the right to health & right to benefit from scientific progress. He talks about @maureenmurenga’s story of needing to crush her own ARV pills for her child - and today there are paediatric formulations. @xiaogi
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12 Dec 2023
"#Science tells us that changes made by #TriplePlanetaryCrisis threaten #health and environment."
@BCarneyAlmroth of @ScientistsCoa shows that solutions guided by #RightToScience need precaution, simplification and transparency, with #JustTransition, alongside knowledge-holders.
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Thank you @volker_turk for saying it clearly and bringing up the #RightToScience on this @Nature editorial
"Protect the ‘right to science’ for people and the planet" nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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6 Nov 2023
@UN_SPExperts @UN_HRC interesting message of UN @HighCommissioner for #HumanRights echoing recommendations of @SRtoxics in its report on the #RightToScience, including mentions on @CorporateInfluence, relevant to combat #CorporateCapture👇🏾
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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2 Nov 2023
"Our engagement with the right to science has been very little, and it's not being dealt with methodically, even within the scientific community."
Peter Bille Larsen of @UNIGE & @UNESCO_ch emphasizes the need to have enabling conditions to put the #RightToScience into practice.
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2 Nov 2023
Though the situation has evolved over the years, the #RightToScience remains underutilized after 75 years. Kostas Tararas of @UNESCO suggests two key actions to enhance this:
🔸 Promote and use the right to science
🔸 Address and unpack the various challenges together
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