This is a UNESCO document that codifies the goals and value systems by which science operates, adopted by all its member states in November 2017. The UNESCO Recommendation on Science and Scientific Researchers (RSSR) entails ten key priority areas for its global implementation and four-yearly monitoring. They re-affirmed legal commitments to guarantee scientific freedom, ensure public engagement with science, support the ‘human right to science’, establish equitable and sustainable workforces and pipelines, and many other valuable standards and norms that are meant to guide science equally everywhere. They set out a scientists’ bill of rights and agreed on scientists’ autonomy, responsibility, freedoms, and minimum working conditions. These standards are now meant to apply to researchers worldwide, whether in public, private, or higher education.
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