"Science has no homeland". The Duty of International Scientific Cooperation in Human Rights Law

"Science has no homeland" captures the inherently transnational nature of scientific inquiry and its potential to serve humanity beyond borders. Being science inherently transnational, scientific progress requires international cooperation to flourish and serve as a vehicle for promoting human rights and reducing inequalities, international human rights law supports this foundational dimension of science by recognizing an obligation to international scientific cooperation. By analyzing treaty provisions, examples of science diplomacy, and policy  developments, the talk explores this little-known duty and argues for its relevance in an era of geopolitical fragmentation.

Andea Boggio serves as the 2025-2026 Fulbright-Lund Distinguished Chair in Public International Law at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute and the Lund University Faculty of Law. A professor of Politics, Law and Society at Bryant University in the United States, Andera has advised various UN bodies, including the Committee on Economi, Social and Cultural Rights and the World Health Organization. His lates book is The Human Right to Science: History, Development, and Normative Content, co-written with Cesare PR Romano and published by Oxford University Press in 2024.