SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY
AND
HUMAN RIGHTS AND
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED
APPROACH TO SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY AND
DEVELOPEMNT
AMUALLA, JHON BIE
DELA CERNA, CHRISTLE JOY
HUMAN
• HUMAN RIGHTS
RIGHTS AND
• NATURAL
SCIENCE RIGHTS
AND
HUMAN RIGHTS IN
TECHNOLOG THE CONTEXT OF
SCIENCE AND
Y TECHNOLOGY
HUMA
N NATURAL
RIGHT
• basic rights and freedom
RIGHTS
of every person in the • refers to freedoms which
world S exist whether or not a
• refers to freedoms that a
state or
state or government
acknowledges goverment(external
• based on humanity’s entity) acknowleges it
shared values of dignity,
fairness, equality, respect
and interdependence
• are protected by the law
NOT
ABSOLUTE
• it must not be taken away
• there are restrictions HUMAN
EXAMPLES RIGHTS IN
• Person commits a
crime THE CONTEXT
• violates the law
• threat to national
OF SCIENCE
security AND
act as a DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD IN TERMS OF
EDUCATION
EXAMPLE: GPS
learning management
systems (VLE) and other
Positive: helps in
instructional technologies
monitoring peace and
has beefed up access to
order
quality education
Negative: violates people’s
ISSUES
right to privacy
purposes of the gathered
HUMAN RIGHTS
HUMAN RIGHTS- • as a factor towards a good life
• as a core to the continued
BASED progress of science and
APPROACH TO technology
SCIENCE, How S. Romi Mukherjee
explained the HRBASTD
TECHNOLOGY
AND What are the documents that
supports the HRBASTD
DEVELOPMENT
HUMAN RIGHTS-
BASED APPROACH
TO SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY AND
HUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENT S. Romi Mukherjee
• critical factors towards • It concerns that the Human
EUDAIMONIA rights must be considered in
engaging with urgent global
• must be at the core of challenges.
continued scientific and • UN Development Programme
technological progress and describe this approach as one
development. that leads to a more sustainable
outcome considering the human
rights.
HUMAN RIGHTS- • It emphasizes the rights of
BASED APPROACH people (the ‘right-holders’)
TO SCIENCE, and the corresponding
obligations of the state
TECHNOLOGY AND
(the ‘duty-bearer’) in the
DEVELOPMENT context of national
development.
• “SCIENCE” as socially
organized human activity
S. Romi which is value-laden and
shaped by organizational
Mukherjee
structures and procedures
DOCUMENT KEY PRINCIPLES
Universal • right to participate and benefit from scientific advances
Declaration of • right to be protected from scientific misuses
Human • right to benefits of science comes under the domain of culture
Rights(Article27)
UNESCO • all advances in scientific and technological knowledge should be solely
Recommendatio geared towards secring well-being for global citizens
n on the Status • calls upon member states to develop the necessary protocol and policies
of Scientific to monitor and secure this objective
Researchers- • contries are asked to show that science and technology is integrated into
1994 (Article 4) policies that aim to ensure a more humane and just society
UNESCO • science and its applications are indespensable for developement
Declaration on • the declaration encompasses issues such as pollution-free production,
the Use of efficient resource use, biodiversity protectioon and brain drains
Scientific
Knowledge-1999
(Article 33)
HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH HUMAN RIGHTS
TO SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND • must not serve merely
DEVELOPMENT decorative moral dimensions to
sets parameter for the appraisal of science, technology and
science, technology and development
development and the impacts of • should guide humans to flourish
human being not only as individual members
“LEAD TO but as a unit, as a society
• must function as a “GOLDEN
HUMAN MEAN”
• must help in bridging the gap
FLOURISHING between the rich and the poor
IN SCIENCE countries on both concrete and
abstract aspect