AAAS Science and Human Rights Program

Meeting Materials on Article 15

UNESCO, Experts’ Meeting on the Right to Enjoy the Benefits of Scientific Progress and its Application, Venice, Italy, 16-17 July 2009

• Venice Statement
• Presentation, Chapman, Audrey R. “The Core Content of the REBSP”
• Presentation, Donders, Yvonne. “The Right to Enjoy the Benefits of Scientific Progress: State Obligations”

UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, “Summary Record of the 2nd Meeting, Held at the Palais Wilson, Geneva, on Monday, 30 April 2007,” UN Doc. E/C.12/2007/SR.2, 5 October 2007
English | French

UNESCO Experts’ Meeting on the Right to Enjoy the Benefits of Scientific Progress and its Application, Amsterdam, 7-8 June 2007

• Background
• Introduction
• Report
• Presentation, Schabas, William A. “The Right to Enjoy the Benefits of Scientific and Technological Progress and Its Applications.”

UN Commission on Human Rights, “Report of the working group established in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 1995/32 of 3 March 1995 on its tenth session,” UN Doc. E/CN.4/2005/WG.15/2, 1 September 2005
Arabic | Chinese | English | French | Russian | Spanish

Meeting on Priorities for Research to Advance Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 9-11 March, 2005

• Report
• Final statement
• List of participants

Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 1993 Vienna Conference on Human Rights (see in particular para 11).
English

International Symposium on the Effects on Human Rights of Recent Advances in Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain, 25-28 March 1985

• Conclusions and recommendations

(page updated 08/11/2009)