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Monika Plozza
Monika Plozza
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University of Bern

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The Human Right to Science
A Framework for Justiciability
 , pp. xxxi - xxxiv
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2026
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Abbreviations

AAAS

American Association for the Advancement of Science

ACHPR

African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Banjul Charter)

ADRDM

American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man (Bogotá Declaration)

AI

artificial intelligence

APCs

article processing charges

Art.

Article

Arts.

Articles

ASEAN

Association of Southeast Asian Nations

Aufl.

German: edition (Auflage)

BBNJ

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction

BGE

Amtliche Sammlung der Entscheidungen des Schweizerischen Bundesgerichts (official reports of the judgments of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court)

BGer

Schweizerisches Bundesgericht (Swiss Federal Supreme Court)

BVerfGE

Bundesverfassungsgericht (German Federal Constitutional Court)

BVGer

Bundesverwaltungsgericht (Swiss Federal Administrative Court)

CESCR or the Committee

Committee for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

CLS

critical legal studies

CoE

Council of Europe

COMEST

World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology

COVID-19

SARS-CoV-2

CP rights

civil and political rights

CRC

Convention on the Rights of the Child

Doc.

Document

e.g.

exempli gratia (for example)

ECHR

European Convention on Human Rights

ECOSOC

Economic and Social Council

ECtHR

European Court of Human Rights

ed.(s)

editor(s)

ESC Charter

European Social Charter

ESC rights

economic, social and cultural rights

et al.

et alia (and others)

etc.

et cetera (and other similar things)

EU

European Union

FPIC

free, prior and informed consent

GM

genetically modified

GMO

genetically modified organism

HRC

Human Rights Committee

i.e.

id est (in other words)

IACHR

Inter-American Convention on Human Rights (Pact of San José)

ibid.

ibidem (in the same place)

IBSA

Indicator-Benchmarking-Scoping-Assessment

ICCPR

International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights

ICESCR

International Covenant for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

ICJ

International Court of Justice

ICJ Statute

Statute of the International Court of Justice

ICommJ

International Commission of Jurists

ICTs

Information and Communication Technologies

ILC

International Law Commission

NGO

nongovernmental organisation

NHRI

National Human Rights Institution

No./Nos./Nr.

number

OA

Open Access

OAS

Organization of American States

OHCHR

Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights

OP-ICCPR

Optional Protocol to the International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights

OP-ICESCR

Optional Protocol to the International Covenant for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

p.

page

pp.

pages

para.

paragraph

paras.

paragraphs

PCIJ

Permanent Court of International Justice

Res.

Resolution

SDG

Sustainable Development Goals

UDHR

Universal Declaration for Human Rights

UK

United Kingdom

UN

United Nations

UN Charter

Charter of the United Nations

UNDRIP

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

UNESCO Procedure 104

UNESCO Procedure for the Protection of Human Rights: Procedure 104

UNGA

United Nations General Assembly

UNGP

United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

UPR

Universal Periodic Review

USA

United States of America

USSR

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

v.

versus (against)

VCLT

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

vol.

volume

WIPO

World Intellectual Property Organisation

WTO

World Trade Organisation

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