[Open-access] Well, this is unexpected! - re human right

Tue Feb 28 12:36:03 UTC 2012

Dear Peter and all,

Last year the Civil Society Section, Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights, UN expert on cultural rights, organized
public consultation on the right to enjoy benefits of scientific progress
and its applications:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/CulturalRights/Pages/Consultation7December2011.aspx.
Question 5 was OA related: *What legal, administrative, policy or other
measures have been adopted/are under consideration to eliminate barriers to
scientific communication and collaboration, such as censorship,
restrictions on access to the Internet or on free availability of
scientific literature and journals*? And now the Independent Expert in the
field of cultural rights, Ms. Farida Shaheed, prepares annual report “The
right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications” to
the Human Rights Council, to be presented in June 2012.
ieculturalrights at ohchr.org was a contact email to participate in the public
consultation.

Best wishes,
Iryna

Iryna Kuchma
EIFL Open Access Programme Manager
www.eifl.net

On 28 February 2012 02:06, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> I agree that we need to force the positive. Some months ago I proposed
> that access to the scientific literature should be a fundamental human
> right:
>
> http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/09/30/access-to-scientific-publications-should-be-a-fundamental-right/
> It's simple to understand, compelling and politically tractable.
> Is there a chance that this would fly in Europe? I have been invited to a
> meeting where Neelie Kroos will be present - we need a simple concept that
> we should hammer.
>
> P.
>
>
>
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