The book also provided a model of radical environmental activism that questioned prevailing attitudes about the benefits of scientific progress and the attitude that humans should take toward nature.
These conditions are amplified by war, forced migration, violence and torture, ecological instability, and denial of access to basic education and to the benefits of scientific progress [10], [11].
Reproductive rights is not only absence of reproductive illness but the right to life and health, rights to bodily integrity and security, the right to the benefits of scientific progress (e.g. control of reproduction), the right to sexual education, the right to equality in marriage and divorce and the right to non-discrimination [ 12].
This proposition is not without precedent: international treaties have long recognized that everyone has a right to the benefits of scientific progress and its applications, and a right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from scientific productions.
A human rights approach brings both a critical and a practical dimension to public deliberation in bringing attention to historical patterns, cultural values, and prevailing structures of power and powerlessness as they contribute to or result in disparities in access to the benefits of scientific progress or unequal exposure to environmental health hazards.
In addition to the 1948 UDHR, the 1966 ICESCR enshrined at art. 15(1)(b) the right "of everyone … to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications" and the right "of everyone …to benefit from the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific … production of which he is the author" [art. 15(1)(c)].
As a journal that publishes studies of genomic data for the benefit of scientific progress, we at G3 recognize the importance of broad discussions about the genome sciences involving the general public, policy makers, scientists and health care practitioners.
We suggest the cost would be moderate and returns high, generating benefits for many hundreds of researchers, maximizing impact for funders, and increase the rate of scientific progress in social science.
