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Principle

Accessible knowledge

We think essential knowledge and fundamental benefits of science should be accessible, with public education playing a strong role.

The proposal

Essential knowledge must be accessible and public education must convey fundamental capabilities; access to the fundamental benefits of science must not depend on the ability to pay.

How to read it

Sources identify relevant rights, methods, findings or precedents. They do not automatically establish the full World4Humans formulation. Where the project makes its own choice, that choice remains open to criticism and revision.

Sources and literature

Authority
Existing rights or treaty sources, plus a World4Humans project choice or operationalization.
Relationship
External literature overlaps in part; the cited sources do not establish the full World4Humans proposition.

Cited publications

  • United Nations, 1966b

    United Nations, 1966b. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. United Nations. https://2covenants.ohchr.org/About-ICESCR.html

  • CESCR, 1999b

    CESCR, 1999b. CESCR General Comment No. 13: The right to education. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/TBSearch.aspx?Lang=en&SymbolNo=E%2FC.12%2F1999%2F10

  • Sen, 2004

    Sen, 2004. Elements of a theory of human rights. Amartya Sen. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1088-4963.2004.00017.x

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