Linking science and human rights: Facts and figures

SciDevNet: A human rights-based approach to science, technology and development seeks to place a concern for human rights at the heart of how the international community engages with urgent global challenges. It entered the UN's lexicon in 1997, with Kofi Annan's call for human rights to be integrated into the UN's mandates, management, and methodologies for development and international cooperation. The UN Development Programme characterises this approach as one that "leads to better and more sustainable...

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